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Industry Insights

Our Industry Insights highlight real-world, inspiring MMC success stories and innovative case studies shaping the future of Irish construction. These insights seek to demonstrate how the MMC sector are addressing the following industry challenges.

Workforce shortages
Limited awareness of MMC training provision
Honing off-site and modular skills
Addressing digital and technology gap
Need for multi-skilled labour force
Preparing future industry leaders

20.04.26

“If It Can Be Built Offsite, It Should” – Engaging Engineers with Offsite Manufacturing and Lean Principles for MEP Installations

Early engagement between designers and contractors is fundamental to delivering Lean offsite manufacturing. Ardmac, a specialist contractor delivering complex data centre and advanced manufacturing facilities, focuses on maximising a project’s pre-manufactured value (PMV %) – and has taken to upskilling partners in Lean offsite manufacturing too.

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Off-Site & Modular Skills

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14.04.26

Prefabricated Drainage Systems: Precision Manufactured Offsite by Skilled MEP Professionals

Managing water drainage is a key engineering factor for construction projects of all scales and in all sectors. Prefabricated plumbing offers the flexibility to ‘plug and play’ custom-manufactured rainwater drainage to individual developments, reducing time spent building and installing systems onsite. Capcon Engineering is a specialist Irish firm with an offsite manufacturing facility leading the way in this area.

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MMC Workforce

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