Michael McCarthy

QS.
#housing #infrastructure #energy #cork #LCA #MMC #modular 🇮🇪🇪🇺

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Construction company BAM asked the Government to pay €25m for a job at the National Children's Hospital which had cost them €200,000 to carry out, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has revealed https://t.co/Ua4RvGW3wC

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

‘Like the Guggenheim!’ Inside Zurich’s staggering, revolutionary new hospital for kids https://t.co/aTPVs7YT1M

'Thoughtful, humane design doesn’t have to cost more'

This cost about €7,000/m2, about half what the NCH costs (at the moment)
In Switzerland, where costs are higher

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

@BowesChay Except that Russia under his leadership has done equally evil things in Ukraine.

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

This is a huge deal.
To have a figure to measure damage from CO2 emissions should change things.
https://t.co/GObgMCOUvq

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Climate damages are "6X LARGER than previously thought", says new NBER working paper

– every 1C wipes out 12% of global GDP
– every tonne of CO2 causes >$1,000 of damages

@GernotWagner tells me: "Assuming nobody finds a flaw in this paper, it is going to truly change things"

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

https://t.co/tW82wihqRr

[Charles Montgomery @charlesincities]

How does the City of Vienna build 6,000-7,000 new units of subsidized housing every year?
A 1% tax on all salaries.
A land bank.
And loans to non-profit housing associations.
https://t.co/5iTmFKj9J4

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

@UppityNorrie Talking to a client in the east of Cork, he said recently that there has been more progress in public and active transport in the last 4-5 years than in the last 20.

[Dutch Cycling Embassy @Cycling_Embassy]

Many health experts recommend people walk or cycle at least 30 minutes every day.

With 44.0% of Dutch adults walking or cycling at least 30 minutes every day, it has by far the highest percentage of any country in Europe. #WorldHealthDay

https://t.co/Mo62aLwbLL

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

Car centric mobility is a huge cost to society and the environment.
Active mobility should be the default.
https://t.co/rTV4fSlPwl

[Dutch Cycling Embassy @Cycling_Embassy]

How do e-bikes compete with the other modes of transport?

“E-bikes should be at the core of planning – along with other forms of active mobilities and public transport – as they are a readily available way to foster decarbonization of transport.”

https://t.co/MZB3b6S7pX

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

@BowesChay What is your point?
Russia wants to eliminate Ukraine.
Then it will be Poland, baltics, Moldova etc.
They want to return to cold War borders including East Germany.
What should the response be to that?

[John Cusack @johncusack]

The Palestinians, facing down the most powerful countries in the world, left virtually alone even by their allies, have suffered immeasurably. But they have won this war. They, their journalists, their doctors, their rescue teams their poets, academics, spokespeople, and even their children have conducted themselves with a courage and dignity that has inspired the rest of the world. The young generation in the western world, particularly the new generation of young Jewish people in the US, have seen through the brainwashing and propaganda and have recognised apartheid and genocide for what it is. The governments of the most powerful countries in the western world have lost their dignity, and any respect they might have had. Yet again. But the millions of protestors on the streets of Europe and the US are the hope for the future of the world.
Palestine will be free.

Statement by Arundhati Roy at the meeting of Working People Against Apartheid and Genocide in Gaza, at the Press Club, New Delhi, on March 7.

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

What do you think?
@TFIupdates
@BusConnects

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

There are nearly four times as many traffic lights per capita in Los Angeles than in Amsterdam.

Stop-start movement is the price everyone pays for higher speeds.

When most streets are 30 km/h or less, such interventions are rarely needed—allowing everything to flow more freely.

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

Not a great table to be leading in.
Why is Irish electricity so expensive compared to others?

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Household electricity price (per kilowatt hour):

🇮🇪 Ireland: $0.52
🇬🇧 UK: $0.44
🇮🇹 Italy: $0.43
🇧🇪 Belgium: $0.42
🇩🇪 Germany: $0.40
🇳🇱 Netherlands: $0.34
🇫🇷 France: $0.26
🇩🇰 Denmark: $0.24
🇦🇺 Australia: $0.24
🇪🇸 Spain: $0.23
🇯🇵 Japan: $0.23
🇷🇼 Rwanda: $0.23
🇵🇪 Peru: $0.19
🇿🇦 South Africa: $0.18
🇺🇸 USA: $0.17
🇧🇷 Brazil: $0.16
🇲🇽 Mexico: $0.11
🇻🇪 Venezuela: $0.09
🇨🇳 China: $0.08
🇮🇳 India: $0.08
🇦🇪 UAE: $0.08
🇹🇷 Turkey: $0.08
🇷🇺 Russia: $0.07
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: $0.05
🇳🇬 Nigeria: $0.05
🇶🇦 Qatar: $0.03
🇮🇷 Iran: $0.003

According to GPP, as of June 2023

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

@think_or_swim @TheEconomist @TheEconomist coverage of the genocide by their anonymous correspondents from the beginning looks like it could be entirely written by Mossad.
Full of victim blaming and false narratives
They have lost all credibility.
I've cancelled my subscription as a result.

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

The dangers of having a small number of large house builders:

Market manipulation
https://t.co/5VkDPAXgNE

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

Thanks @CITA_Ltd for the opportunity

[CitA @CITA_Ltd]

CitA team would like to thank our event chair and speakers for their great presentations at yesterdays CitA Digital Skills event.

They provided us with valuable insights on the theme of 'Pre-Fabrication and Offsite’.

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

Delighted to have the opportunity to share how to build cost effective modular buildings.
This has the potential to help solve the housing and skills shortages.

[CitA @CITA_Ltd]

Final speaker of the day Michael McCarthy from MMC Quantity Surveyors speaking on The Economics of Modular Construction. Gaining a lot of beneficial insights from his presentation.

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

@gavinjdaly OK, but can i suggest also look at who's making most profit?
These are the big material producers.

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

@gavinjdaly I wouldn't necessarily agree with that either.
Many projects are not progressing because they cost more to build than their value.
Some likely reasons for this are low wage growth and high material prices due to continued consolidation leading to reduced competition.

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

@spectatorindex Ireland; 9.4%

[Michael McCarthy @MMC_QS]

The Valencia apartment fire.
4 dead
15 missing
1 hour for the whole building to be ablaze.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

This video shows how incredibly fast the fire engulfed the buildings in less than 1 hour....