CIF Southern Construct Summit
21st May 2026
SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh
The Marina, Ballintemple, Cork
The Marina, Ballintemple, Cork
Topics include:
- Delivering the vision for Cork
- Matching unprecedented investment in infrastructure with action and delivery
- Accelerating infrastructure with time-bound measures and legal reform
- Reducing fragmentation, aligning planning and funding
- Creating a more predictable, efficient pathway for delivering critical infrastructure
- Strengthening coordination and collaboration of stakeholders
- Retaining attractiveness for foreign direct investment (FDI) in a challenging international environment
- Decarbonising Cork’s built environment
- Tackling the core barriers to delivery of housing
- Meeting climate targets without killing viability
- Housing delivery at scale
- Planning, permitting and regulatory reform
- Cost inflation and commercial survival
- Innovation and digital construction
- The power of artificial intelligence to revolutionise the construction industry
- Improving productivity on Cork sites
- Skills, labour and talent retention
- Ensuring a shovel-ready workforce
- Cork’s thriving eco-system of world-class research, development and innovation (RDI)
Who will attend:
- Business owners, directors and managers
- Local authorities, semi-state agencies, government departments
- Contractors, sub-contractors
- Build and design professionals
- Engineers, Architects, Quantity Surveyors
- Planners
- IT professionals
- Distributors
- Infrastructure project leaders
- Plant and Site Managers
- Worker representatives
- Digital construction professionals
- Technology providers
- Educators
- Manufacturers
- Suppliers
- Quality Assurance Managers
- Legal firms
- Training Providers
- Recruitment Consultants
- NZEB Managers