{"id":192517,"date":"2025-12-15T06:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/192517\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:49:20","slug":"it-depends-on-the-pipeline-but-i-think-we-are-showing-that-this-is-a-highly-efficient-system-for-apartment-construction-kilsaran-precast-md-derek-duffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/192517\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It depends on the pipeline. But I think we are showing that this is a highly efficient system for apartment construction\u2019 \u2013 Kilsaran Precast MD Derek Duffy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe firm\u2019s automated factory needs just 15 staff at any one time to make concrete walls that deliver apartments at scale\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Derek Duffy says Kilsaran Precasts can play a key role\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d53ed543-0f6c-4c27-b776-e91299e4b286.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Derek Duffy says Kilsaran Precasts can play a key role<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Imagine a huge bakery powered by machines mixing dough in a massive vat before robots mould it into giant slabs and slide it effortlessly into an oven and then on to a truck for delivery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">That, on a vast scale, is what Kilsaran Precast\u2019s 70,000 square foot new factory is like in Arthurstown, Co Kildare. The firm \u2014 an offshoot of the Kilsaran group \u2014 has invested an estimated \u20ac25m in a plant that can produce enough concrete walls to build 4,000 apartments a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The firm\u2019s automated factory needs just 15 staff at any one time to make concrete walls that deliver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,6353,61,60],"class_list":["post-192517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-fearghal-oconnor","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}