CPD Ensures Ireland’s Engineers Best In Field
Wednesday 2nd July, 2008: John SISK & Son Ltd is the 100th company to be awarded the prestigious CPD (Continuing Professional Development) Accreditation by Engineers Ireland, it has been announced. The company received the accreditation following an audit of its lifelong learning practices for engineering professionals and was presented with the award by Ms. Mary Coughlan T.D., Tánaiste, and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
Sisk co-sponsored the visit to Dublin of the world famous architect Daniel Libeskind. Daniel was in town to give an interview attended by over 1000 people at the National Concert Hall.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Martin T.D. was present to unveil the works of Vivienne Roche at the Cork School of Music on 30th June 2008. John Sisk & Son Ltd. together with Murray O’Laoire funded the 3 pieces which are titled ‘Light Ensemble’.
What is believed to be the largest pour of its type in Ireland to date (2625 cubic metres) will begin on Friday 25th April when over half the raft basement slab is poured at the Spencer Dock Hotel.
On Friday 4th April, Kilkenny County Council as Lead Authority and Roadbridge Sisk Joint Venture trading as SRB Civil Engineering Ltd signed a contract for the construction of the N9/N10 Phase 4 Knocktopher to Powerstown High Quality Dual carriageway/Motorway. The total scheme cost is 467 million euro and represents the largest project ever undertaken by Kilkenny County Council.
The N11 Kilpeddar Interchange was officially opened on Friday 7th March 2008 by the Minister for European Affairs, Mr Dick Roche TD.
Sisk commence work on the new Navan Retail Park.
Roadbridge/Sisk due to commence work on site in the first quarter of 2008.
Sisk, Ireland’s largest construction company, has been appointed main contractor on the New Stadium at Lansdowne Road. Sisk, who won the contract following a public procurement tendering process, will have overall responsibility for the construction of the stadium, which is scheduled to see its first action in 2010. Sisk is currently mobilising on site.
Sisk Pharma, Sisk’s dedicated division for construction in the Bio-Pharma sector, exhibited at the recent annual meeting of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) held from November 4th to 7th in Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Hanover Quay has taken the 2007 OPUS Housing Award.
Sisk, Ireland’s largest contractor, have been presented, by Billy Kelleher T.D. Minister for Labour, the overall construction award for consistent achievement in safety at the recent NISO Annual Safety Conference 2007 in Kerry.
Sisk endow bespoke sculptures for Cork School of Music
The Convention Centre Dublin, being built by CMP (a 50:50 JV construction company owned by Sisk and Treasury Holdings), is the first building in the world to contain Carbon Neutral Concrete. By lowering the embodied CO2 of the concrete with the use of Ecocem Cement, and offsetting the remaining Carbon Footprint, the concrete becomes Carbon Neutral.
Planning permission with conditions has been granted for the Greystones Harbour Project which will be one of the most challenging civil engineering and architectural projects to be undertaken in Ireland over the coming years.
The Sisk/Treasury joint venture company CMP are the D&C contractors for the €215m project with an overall 40 month programme resulting in a 2010 opening.
Sisk has been awarded the contract to build a strategic new commuter rail station on the Kildare line.
1,000,000 Accident Free Hours achieved on Centocor Ringaskiddy site.
Sisk brochure launched in the new Urban Retreat Gallery, Hanover Quay.
750,000 Accident Free Hours on Sisk Centocor Site
An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, turns the sod on Dundalk Stadium - Ireland's first all-weather floodlit racetrack.
Whitfield Clinic Opens for Business
Sisk have been successful in several categories of the recently announced Bank of Ireland OPUS Architecture and Construction Awards 2006.
Transport Minister, Martin Cullen, T.D. (Thursday, 5th October 2006) turned the sod in Twomileborris, County Tipperary on the longest road project ever to be undertaken in the State.
Transport Minister, Martin Cullen, T.D. travelled to Cork today (Monday, 2nd October 2006) where he officially opened the M8 Rathcormac/Fermoy bypass.
Centocor meets its first commissioning milestones
Friday 8th September 2006
Today at the Centocor site in Cork Sisk was a central part of the team who achieved a significant milestone in the delivery of this complex pharmaceutical facility.
Sisk achieve fantastic success in the 2005/06 Construction Manager of the Year Awards.
The NRA announced today that the longest new motorway project to be built in Ireland will commence work this October.
The official turning of the first sod took place on Monday 22nd May 2006, by the Minister for Transport Martin Cullen T.D., of the first ECI Roads projects (Early Contractor Involvement) to be undertaken in Ireland for a 37km stretch between Mitchelstown and Cashel.
