Sentences with phrase «profile building failures»

After a litany of dangerous and high profile building failures in Ireland, many in the country's building industry looked longingly across the Irish Sea and held up the UK as an example of how to do building control properly.

What is clear is that regulations play a seminal role in setting a baseline for investment decision - making and the absence of regulations (of adequate enforcement) would allow for the unfettered priorities of the market to drive down standards, which can lead to the disasters we have seen illustrated in Ireland by high profile building failures at developments such as Priory Hall, Longboat Quay and Millfield Manor.

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In profiling compelling, young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple's first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle - powered maize shelters in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere.