TCD provost Dr John Hegarty (left), Danielle Ryan from the Cathal Ryan Trust and Edward Kemp, director of Rada, in TCD  for the announcement of plans to set up an academy for dramatic arts at the university. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill A new academy will be established at Trinity College in Dublin. With the involvement [...]

Northern Ireland political leaders, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness, announced the redevelopment of the Maze prison, the former top-security prison site. The redevelopment plans for the new facility will promote the success of the peace process. It will also keep the key prison buildings, including those linked to the IRA hunger strike in 1981 with [...]

Construction at the site of the new Children’s Hospital of Ireland will begin by the end of the year. The new pediatric hospital will be expected to open in 2014. The hospital will be a state-of-the-art facility with the voice of children heard in its planning, design and operation, according to Minister of Health Mary [...]

The making of a new National Film School on the site of Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) is confirmed and will begin this summer after the Minster for Education and Science, Batt O’Keeffe TD, sent the project out to tender for building construction. Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan said [...]

Imagine the time, work, care and consideration that went into this modular building project in Sebastopol, California. Each tree in this orchard was painstakingly documented and individually assessed for long-term viability – the driveway, garage and house were all located based on that analysis. Nestled in an apple grove the Orchard House is a rural [...]

The donation of modular buildings by a Dubai firm provide shelter to the people in disaster-hit countries all over the world. The Drydocks World Group, Dubai, the region’s largest ship repair company, donated 30 portable cabins and 60 air conditioning units to the Mohammed Bin Rashid Humanitarian and Charity Establishment on April 26, 2010. They [...]

The use of commercial modular buildings is becoming more popular in Ireland. Aside from business owners, public officials are now becoming aware of the advantages of modular buildings. They can see the savings they will make, financially and in time. Commercial modular buildings can be a great solution for the small business that needs a [...]

When they are piled high on a barge, shipping containers aren’t exactly fertile inspiration for recycled architecture – but creative thinkers have managed to turn these boring rectangular boxes into surprisingly beautiful modular homes, offices, apartments and dorms. Like a giant modular building Lego set, shipping containers can be stacked into all sorts of configurations [...]

Compared to conventional construction, modular buildings are affordable and cost effective due to their factory construction. Builders and consumers find such buildings much better value than their on-site counterparts. This is one of the reasons for the high demand for modular buildings to meet a wide variety of uses. Modular buildings provide long-term temporary or [...]

McDonald’s restaurants use prefabrication technology to build their new outlets, and they recently set their record of a completed outlet being built and open for business within 13 hours of starting construction on prepared ground works. This has considerable commercial implications for businesses and a range of prospective clients, which could be hotels and retail [...]

Learning should be made more enjoyable and take place in a comfortable setting and environment. Schools and educators address these needs by turning to modular classrooms. These are sometimes called temporary or relocatable classrooms. Modular classrooms offer the advantage of saving time as they can be installed quickly and provide a comfortable setting for students [...]

Business operations run smoothly with readily accessible office space. Modular site offices provide a solution, whether you need a single unit site office or a multi-unit site office complex. Innovative and economical site office space solutions are available through a broad range of modular site offices in all shapes and sizes. Everything from construction site [...]

Lack of planning permission can prohibit the erection of a brick-built construction, but modular buildings, which are classed as temporary buildings, are permitted.  That is why increasingly greater numbers of premises are actually comprised of modular offices even if they are intended to be permanent fixtures. The loophole exists because modular offices can be moved [...]

‘Haiti House’ wants to help develop a modular building industry to employ Haitian citizens. It is planning a factory on the island so that residents can work there to build their own communities in the near future. “We even hate calling [what we’re doing] prefab anymore because it’s such a different animal,” says Haiti House’s [...]

When you compare the traditional construction of a commercial business to modular buildings you will see a great deal of benefits in modular buildings. Most of these benefits lead to saving you a lot of time and money – both of which are important in today’s economy. Unlike the expected 3 to 5 months that [...]

Principal of the primary school in Enfield, Enda O’Flynn, was delighted that  plans for a new primary school in Enfield have moved a step closer.  He said it was a “big step forward” towards their new school. “Everyone is delighted and it will give the town a lift. It will be a facility to serve [...]

Inset: Spanish pavilion ubder construction. To get to the Shanghai World Expo site, you drive to the west of the Shanghai, about half an hour’s drive from downtown. Tens of thousands of people were relocated to make way for the Expo. The site offices are on both sides of the Huangpu river, but the biggest [...]

Maccom recently assisted the Garden of Eden Childcare Project Edenmore in providing a state of the art modular building childcare facility for permanent use at St Malachy’s school Edenmore. Childcare Facility Manager Ms Emma Lynch and her Design Team set Maccom the task of creating a Modern, Bright and Energy efficient Childcare Facility which could [...]

Maccom recently assisted the Raheny & District Credit Union in finding temporary accommodation until such time as a new and more permanent facility could be found. Credit Union Director Tom O’Connor set Maccom the task of finding a robust and workable modular building which he wanted to specifically tailor to suit the needs of the [...]