03/09/2009

Building Jobs Announced

Around 100 construction jobs at to be created at a Belfast housing development, it has been revealed.

The McGinnis Group is set to construct the scheme on a site bought from the administrators of the bankrupt Taggart Holdings.

The Saintfield Road development is expected to take up to two years to complete.

Meanwhile, the urban designer and highway contractor, Emtek, has developed a new construction devision, which the Lurgan firm hopes will help it secure more industrial, commercial and residential work.

Emtek was established by Eddie McKee in 1994, employing three members of staff. Today the firm, which has been involved in major national infrastructural schemes, employs 50 people.

(BMcC)

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