Geoscience Ireland (GI) Meets Hungarian Delegation
Geoscience Ireland (GI) was delighted to present an outline of Ireland’s Construction Sector to a Workshop sponsored by Consulting Ireland and hosted by the Hungarian Embassy in Ireland on 9 October 2024 .
- Ireland’s Construction Sector output is c €40 BN per annum, employs c 160,000 persons and accounts for c 9% of GDP
- The drivers are the National Development Plan 2040 which focuses on Housing, Water, Energy (Renewables and Grid), and Balanced Regional Development
- Some of the Sector’s key exports are to UK Infrastructure and EU Data Centres. FLI Group (a Geoscience Ireland member) is an exemplar as a provider of precast concrete and land remediation services in the UK and EU
- Design and consultancy services provided to Multilateral Development Banks are poorly developed compared to European counterparts and would benefit from collaboration with them
- Geoscience Ireland has collaborated with an EU Geothermal Energy Project including several EU partners including CAPES of Hungary
- The Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland, Consulting Ireland, Geoscience Ireland and the Construction Industry Federation are excellent contact points for collaboration.
The Workshop heard impressive presentations from Hungarian companies CEH Planning, Consteel, Mercor and POKA3D. Hungary has a buoyant construction sector accounting for 6% of GDP and employing 380,000 persons.