Forgive me for being self-indulgent this month but, in trying to absorb the Nphet words of wisdom throughout this Covid pandemic, I’m afraid I’ve ended up suffering far more debilitating symptoms from NPHETitis than I did when I contracted Covid back in March. Talk about the so-called cure being worse than the disease!Read More

The global manufacturing sector has undergone a tumultuous decade: large developing economies leaped into the first tier of manufacturing nations, a severe recession choked off demand, and manufacturing employment fell at an accelerated rate in advanced economies. Still, manufacturing remains critically important to both the developing and the advanced world. In the former, it continues...Read More

Significant changes and updates are contained in IS 3217:2013 + Amendment 1:2017 Emergency Lighting, the newly-revised lighting standard enacted recently following consultation and extensive work by members of the National Standards Authority of Ireland Fire Safety Standards Committee. Here, Gearoid McKenna, the Lighting Association Ireland representative on the committee, outlines the key changes.Read More

Comharchumann Fuinnimh Oileáin Árainn Teo (Aran Islands Renewable Energy Ltd) is this year’s overall winner of the Sustainable Energy Awards 2014 for its range of energy projects to develop the islands as energy self-sustaining and carbon neutral.Read More

On 1 January 2015 the RACHP industry is due a shake-up of a magnitude not experienced in most people’s living memory. The revised Regulation (EC) 1005/2009 on Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS), which came into effect on 1 January 2010, reaches its climax and requires that all EU member states stop supplying and using reclaimed or...Read More