http://www.maccom-ireland.ie Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:38:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-may-derail-metro-north/ http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-may-derail-metro-north/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:36:27 +0000 Paul Dalton http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/?p=1632 Planning permission was rejected for a Metro North station with a large park-and-ride facility at Belinstown last week. While planning permission was approved for the St Stephen’s Green to Swords line the decision to reject planning permission for the Belinstown station has left one of the two final bidders on the project Metro Express considering pulling [...]]]> http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-may-derail-metro-north/feed/ 0 http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/prefab-hotels-are-on-their-way/ http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/prefab-hotels-are-on-their-way/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:42:44 +0000 Paul Dalton http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/?p=1638 Over the next five years Spanish company Lookotels is planning to build 10 prefab hotels throughout Spain and Europe. Each energy-efficient hotel will be prefabricated with up to 100 rooms each of which will have a sofa bed, TV, desk, chair, telephone, bathroom, automatic controls, and wifi. The hotels will be well insulated, controlled with [...]]]> http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/prefab-hotels-are-on-their-way/feed/ 0 http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-overturned-for-seaplane-on-lough-derg/ http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-overturned-for-seaplane-on-lough-derg/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:12:48 +0000 Paul Dalton http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/?p=1607 Earlier this year, Clare County Council granted planning permission to Harbour Flights Ireland Ltd for a seaplane base at Mountshannon. The Mountshannon base formed part of a number of stops for the company along the west of Ireland. However, An Taisce, the Shannon Regional Fisheries Board (Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI)), local anglers and residents appealed [...]]]> http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-overturned-for-seaplane-on-lough-derg/feed/ 0 http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/prefab-hospital-in-haiti/ http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/prefab-hospital-in-haiti/#comments Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:37:48 +0000 Paul Dalton http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/?p=1611 A prefab hospital has been built by the organisation, ‘Doctors Without Borders’ in the town of Léogâne in Haiti.  The prefab hospital was completed in five months and was inaugurated on October 8.  The town of Léogâne  was closest to the epicentre of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January.  Following the earthquake, Doctors Without [...]]]> http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/prefab-hospital-in-haiti/feed/ 0 http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-refused-for-telecommunications-antennae/ http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-refused-for-telecommunications-antennae/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:43:26 +0000 Paul Dalton http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/?p=1592 Mayo County Council have refused Hutchison 3G Ireland Limited planning permission to erect a Monopole with antennae, transmission dishes and associated works at Glennacally, Errif, Westport and a 20m monopole with antenna, transmission dishes, equipment fencing, upgrading of access track and ancillary works at Churchfield Upper, Tourmakeady.  These two antennae were to be part of [...]]]> http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-refused-for-telecommunications-antennae/feed/ 0 http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/prefab-treehouse-designs/ http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/prefab-treehouse-designs/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:18:01 +0000 Paul Dalton http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/?p=1600 A German company has come up with this design for a prefab treehouse. The design is a collaborative effort between “an architect, a landscape architect, an arbologist, and a craftsman.” The structure was prefabricated off-site then installed into the tree. While not intended as primary accommodation the idea was to provide an interesting guest room [...]]]> http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/prefab-treehouse-designs/feed/ 0 http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/modular-building-future/ http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/modular-building-future/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:29:30 +0000 Paul Dalton http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/?p=1570 . . . . Could this be the future of the modular building? An Australian company, Skylifter, are developing a new way to move prefabricated buildings using a 150 meter-wide disc shaped helium balloon. The Skylifter promises a payload of 150 tons and a range of 1240 miles. Its design provides for more stability – [...]]]> http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/modular-building-future/feed/ 0 http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-granted-for-buddhist-temple-in-cork/ http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-granted-for-buddhist-temple-in-cork/#comments Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:16:43 +0000 Paul Dalton http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/?p=1518 The €1.5 million temple was granted planning permission by Cork County Council earlier this year. It will be Ireland’s first Buddhist Temple.  Architect Giles Oliver said he was pleased that the local authority had approved the plans for ‘this small wildly attractive thing at the end of a long path.’ The temple, which will be situated [...]]]> http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/planning-permission-granted-for-buddhist-temple-in-cork/feed/ 0 http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/home-office-ideas/ http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/home-office-ideas/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:03:34 +0000 Paul Dalton http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/?p=1502 We came across this award winning Canadian design for a home office. The rear garden has been laid out as a courtyard with outside meeting areas with the home office being located in the far corner of the garden. This property, which is located in Vancover, has seperate access to the garden which is useful [...]]]> http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/home-office-ideas/feed/ 0 http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/construction-services-out-to-tender-for-new-trinity-college-academy-for-dramatic-arts/ http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/construction-services-out-to-tender-for-new-trinity-college-academy-for-dramatic-arts/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:17:09 +0000 Paul Dalton http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/?p=1485 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 [...]]]> http://www.maccom-ireland.ie/construction-services-out-to-tender-for-new-trinity-college-academy-for-dramatic-arts/feed/ 0