Construction Costs in Recession Ireland and Useful Tools to Estimate Your Construction Costs are two of the most popular posts in our blog.
This time we bring you the Average Irish Construction Costs for 2011 as published by Bruce Shaw in their latest Handbook 2011. Bruce Shaw is one of Europe’s leading quantity surveying practices, they provide construction cost management, construction project management and consultancy services.
The average construction costs table is generated using Bruce Shaw’s Cost Database and sets out typical building construction costs.
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The basic hourly wage rates for Craftman and General Operatives are approximately 5% lower than 2008 rates.
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The Society of Chartered Surveyors publishes every year a guide to rebuilding costs in Ireland. This guide is intended to assist in insuring a house and the costs included are based on building rates as of March 2011.
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