Nel mezzo di una crisi abitativa, perché i costruttori irlandesi sono così improduttivi?
https://www.thejournal.ie/housing-crisis-builders-unproductive-lack-staff-6821934-Sep2025/
di Banania2020
Nel mezzo di una crisi abitativa, perché i costruttori irlandesi sono così improduttivi?
https://www.thejournal.ie/housing-crisis-builders-unproductive-lack-staff-6821934-Sep2025/
di Banania2020
13 commenti
They want to work from home too
The cost of running a company 😳
Because they get paid either way, look at the children’s hospital their are no consequences for those grifters to delay projects and ask for more money
They needs to be punishments for those who don’t do projects within budget and within time instead to throwing them money and incentivising grift
hmm…If I were a builder I would not be in a hurry either, as long as the money is good. The housing crisis will continue for a decade or two, even if we have another recession. Why should they dig themselves a hole by meeting demand and eventually have all this equipment, technology and staff and less work and therefore less money. Seems like they learned from the last property bubble. People looking for homes will not like it, but you can’t really blame the builders for being businessmen….
If the problem is scale (doubtful, as they themselves note that construction has low productivity in other countries with larger firms) the path would be to encourage firms to merge, creating more BAMs that overpromise and underdeliver as a business model, or a state-owned company that can bypass the chaos.
If you want a house, pay for it.
Why expect some auld fella in a van to graft for a year with no income building someone else a house when the arse might fall out of the market again ?
Bunch of clowns in the comments who didn’t read the article.
Back in 2006 there were 250,000 people working in the construction sector, and we built 90,000 houses.
Today there are 191,000 people working on the construction sector, and we only barely managed to build 30,000 houses in 2024.
Wanna know the reason why the construction sector has become so much less productive? Because we’ve regulated ourselves into mandating that only the highest possible quality housing is allowed to be built, and every project now has to have several planning consultants involved in each project at every step.
It’s all bureaucracy, with a far higher proportion of the industry doing busywork paperwork instead of swinging a hammer.
We are the absolute best at creating bureaucracies and regulations, and it has hamstrung out ability to do anything.
We haven’t had efficient house building since the councils were the primary house builders in this country. They had the economics of scale on their side and could bulk purchase materials at a national level for all councils. Staff were well paid & they stayed working for the council their whole career which brought great expertise. Planning, environment, water and housing departments worked together.
Most of the good 2nd hand housing stock on daft are former social homes built by the council, they are solid builds that last 100 years.
Ireland’s housing system is completely broken, and theres dozens of reasons for it, but it all correlates with taking away the public ability to build homes and giving it greedy investors who want to profit off scarcity
I do wonder what the lobbying agenda is at the moment.
Apartment size requirements dropped to 32M^2 for a studio back in July.
We’ve already come to expect no flooring in a new build and shitty wooden fencing for garden boundaries of houses, wonder if we agreed to bring our own doors and windows would they build a few more homes?
The government aren’t taking housing seriously.
Building contractors are playing it safe, and rightfully so.
The government could guarantee success of large scale projects and let the builders build, but they don’t.
With population increase via inwards migration, and lack of seriousness around housing we are making things worse year by year.
The government have tried nothing, and are all out of ideas.
I’d also like to add, as a tradesman and site manager, building sites are not great places to work. It’s physically demanding, noisy, dusty and specific to house builders, the prices to fit out houses are shite. Guys have to work flat out to make decent money and supply their own tools which is a major cost with a van on top. There are no apprenticeships available due to this level of demanding workload leaving no time to bring a lad through.
This article is piss poor journalism.
Housing units can be completed in a matter of months, substantial amounts of homebuilders are utilising MMC like ICF, which is increasingly achieving adherence with construction programmes.
The issues are external factors notably infrastructural deficiency, the under resourcing of infrastructural providers, planning legislation, JRs, lack of development financing, constant tweaking of housing policies, uncertainty over funding of social and cost rental schemes etc.
If homebuilders had certainty over the environment they’re operating in they’d deliver the units.
Thats a bit of a clickbait headline .More regulations , health and safety , 90,000 less workers . All houses now have to be energy rated and airtight . The days of lashing houses up in cavities are long gone . A few of my friends worked on big jobs ie intel and children’s hospital and they said it was a pain in the hole trying to get anything done with the amount of health and safety and getting safety statements you have to do. One friend got reported by the H/S officer because he used a ladder to tie cable to conduit instead of using a mobile platform. Another friend is a builder and he reckoned you’d be better off building a few houses instead of apartments due to the amount of regulation and cost they entail . There’s too many noses in the trough nowadays