February 18th, 2010
I’ve been busy lately doing a lot of networking and attending seminars, the one that I would recommend to anyone who is in business, if its on near you is The Better Business Show for details www.betterbusiness.ie The small firms association is involved in this show and following on from this I was invited and attended a networking event which took place in the O’Callaghan Davenport Hotel and was sponsored by Vodafone. It was the first time that I had attended such a large event and thoroughly enjoyed it - though I was promoting the other business Pedreschi Electrical & Alarms at that event.
The Kildare Enterprise Board, women is business initiative which I have been attending for the last two to three years has been withdrawn for funding reasons. This was a great event, there were great speakers every month and I’d made a lot of what I’d call friends through attending this event - I’ll really miss it.
Another event which I attended and again enjoyed was the Life Lasting Success event which was held in the Red Cow Hotel, I had applied for and received the tickets from Krishna De, having been told about the event by Lorna at Garrendenny Lane. We had a catch up and a chat with fellow twitter member JBBC. This was a very long day - for I could only make it on the Friday. The high point for me was listening to the inspiring talk given by Sean Gallagher of Smarthomes and RTE’s Dragon’s Den.
As a Smarthomes approved installer and working in the construction sector I could really relate with what Sean had to say. I took away a list of books to read - some of which I had already on my bookshelves and must revisit.
April 9th, 2009
The inaugral awards of the RECI Contractor of the Year took place in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin on Friday 20th March 2009.
We at Pedreschi Electrical and Alarms Ltd are very pleased to announce that we were presented with the RECI Contractor of the Year Award 2009 Domestic Winner - Dublin Region.
The awards ceremony took place with a great trunout of the winners and runners-up on the night, it was a great evening, thanks to all the hard work put in by the organisers/promotors, RECI, Hibernian Aviva plus Arachas Corporate Brokers .
- Duncan Stewart, Daniel Pedreschi, John Desmond Chariman RECI
Further information can be found at Pedreschi Electrical.
September 19th, 2008
The Irish Sustainable Building Show is being held from 18th - 20th September 2008.
With all the talk these days of climate change and all of us experiencing rising costs for our energy, we could all benefit from visiting this show. The Ecohouse.ie showhouse which was on exhibition at the recent trade fair “The Autumn Furniture & Home Accessories Fair” is also on display. There are free seminars lined up with feature expert speakers.
Further information and to register online follow this link http://www.sustainablebuildingshow.com
Also running alongside this exhibition is the Irish Sustainable Building Show http://www.irishbuidlingexhibition.com
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September 3rd, 2008
Anyone involved in the construction sector will be aware of the changes which came into effect on September 1st.
Subcontractors will no longer charge VAT to the principle contractor. The principle contractor will declare the VAT on their VAT returns.
This only effects invoices generated on or after 1st September, so if there are amounts outstanding from invoices raised before this change came into effect the VAT element should be still be paid by the principle to the subcontractor.
This however does not effect work carried out for individuals, where the VAT remains chargable.�
August 19th, 2008
The construction industry has really been booming for the last fifteen years or so, but I didn’t realise until this morning while listening the Ryan Tubridy just how much of a boom this was. While he was discussing the CEO and choices that leaving cert students have regarding their further education, with an architect (I missed his name) who also lectures on the subject in Limerick the the numbers came to light.
One in three houses in Ireland have been build since 1995. Just think about that, 1 in 3!
Is it any wonder then that the infrastructure is bursting at the seams, we are a nation that build houses first and think about the infrastructure second. Instead of looking at each section individually we should look at the matter as a whole and maybe put the infrastructure in place first and build up the community around this.
But when you think of the numbers 1 in 3, is it any wonder that we have reached capacity, or over capacity. Was the decision to put a time limit of five years on planning permission the correct decision, has this in fact lead to to where we are today.
