Around the world the circular economy is transforming the way we create, consume and dispose of products at household and industrial levels. The Rediscovery Centre – Ireland’s national Centre of Excellence for the Circular Economy – has invited policy-makers, thought leaders and innovators from across Europe to demonstrate how policy and action are working together … Read more

The Mid-West Lean Network: the second largest regional lean network in Ireland, after Waterford Institute of Technology’s Lean Enterprise Excellence Group, launched in November, was set up to strengthen and increase the existing culture of lean within the Shannon and the wider Mid-West region. Its aim is to enable each industry to broaden and strengthen … Read more

The ICBE Conference will take place on Thursday May 10th 2018 in the Killashee Hotel Kildare. This year’s theme of “Knowledge Driven Excellence” will see an expert panel present on the key pillars of People, Productivity and Technology. Each pillar will feature an expert speaker on the topic followed by an industry led case study. … Read more

IGBC’s new afternoon conference in 2018 focuses on how we design buildings to minimise embodied carbon and create a circular economy for construction materials and healthy places to live and work. This will include speakers on life cycle assessment, zero waste, healthy materials and responsible procurement. The event will be made up of over 100 construction … Read more

This free webinar will introduce attendees to the concept of embodied carbon calculation in buildings, Environmental Product Declarations, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing, and how this can be linked to Building Information Modelling. The Irish Green Building Council has launched an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) programme as a first step towards mainstreaming the … Read more

Organised by the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) & GTMA, The Manufacturing Solutions Conference is a focal point for manufacturing technologies and engineering solutions. Over 100 of the most advanced providers of metrology, inspection, machine tools, workholding, cutting tools, and Cad/Cam/PLM manufacturing software and ancillary products and services will be exhibiting. Bringing all the leading … Read more

Lean thinking is an approach to employee management, process management and workplace organisation that increases market share through superior customer satisfaction. At the same time costs are reduced as employees seek to continuously make shorter, simpler and safer the processes that deliver value to customers. However, identifying the practical steps that will bring about this … Read more

The ISO50001 energy management standard is a key tool enabling companies to deliver their business, financial, regulatory and environmental objectives through better energy management. Certification to the standard also demonstrates compliance with relevant obligations under the EU Energy Efficiency Directive. Who should attend: The workshop is targeted at personnel in the organization tasked with the … Read more