THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FEDERATION elected SIAC director Hank Fogarty its new chairman.
Construction output in 2006 was 35.6bn, or 24% of Irish GDP. Growth in construction was expected to moderate in 2007, following a bumper 2006 expected to have seen 90,000 housing units completed. Some 230,000 square meters of Dublin office space was completed in 2006, compared with 94,000 square meters in 2005.
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