€350000 per a unit for 2 bedroom prefabs in Rathdowney… someone rode them good.
Seems like a savagely overpriced piece of work.
Supply meet demand.
How the FUCK being prefab doubles their price? It’s literally the opposite from what prefab should do.
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If they were giving out free houses , the irish government would pay for them . It’s gone past a joke how inept the state is , on getting value for money for anything
Wasn’t this tendered. Wonder how far off tender price they came in at. OPW should know better than to mess with variations etc. so unless they messed up the tender this is odd.
The big question is, what figure are they saying was the original price tag and when was that?
If a price of a unit doubled over the past five years, it wouldn’t be entirely surprising. Pretty much everything associated with any construction cost related has skyrocketed over that time
>Mr O’Connor the technology was not there and the modular homes sector is an embryonic industry.
It’s been around since the 19 fucking 60s for fucks sake, I’ve seen council prefabs from that era myself. Jesus fucking wept, how fucking inept.
How do we constantly invert economy of scale? I built direct labour, which mea meant I paid the highest vat on nearly everything, to a high spec, for least than had of this. If I can do it one off, why are they paying 2x for stamp and repeat? Someone made a mint on this.
Time for a tribunal
Keep paying your taxes paddy. 10% of our budget
Is currently being spent on the new Irish. 14,000 homeless but if your Ukrainian they can pull out all the stops to give them a brand new home. It’s a great Ireland unless you’re Irish.
Jesus the writing in this article is torture to read.
“Ciaran O’Connor, is the State Architect attached to the OPW. He said there are two steps in the overall cost.”
“Dep Stanle was concerned that the homes were very small but Mr O’Connor the technology was not there and the modular homes sector is an embryonic industry.”
Am I having a stroke?
€25k is a cost of small, metal composite unit with 2 bedrooms, living room, bathroom.
On the other end of scale – 10m was a cost of a full estate with 50 houses, state of the art insulation and heating, including ground works and services. How the hell prefab, which by definition is a mass manufactured unit, can cost 300k?
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€350000 per a unit for 2 bedroom prefabs in Rathdowney… someone rode them good.
Seems like a savagely overpriced piece of work.
Supply meet demand.
How the FUCK being prefab doubles their price? It’s literally the opposite from what prefab should do.
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If they were giving out free houses , the irish government would pay for them . It’s gone past a joke how inept the state is , on getting value for money for anything
Wasn’t this tendered. Wonder how far off tender price they came in at. OPW should know better than to mess with variations etc. so unless they messed up the tender this is odd.
The big question is, what figure are they saying was the original price tag and when was that?
If a price of a unit doubled over the past five years, it wouldn’t be entirely surprising. Pretty much everything associated with any construction cost related has skyrocketed over that time
>Mr O’Connor the technology was not there and the modular homes sector is an embryonic industry.
It’s been around since the 19 fucking 60s for fucks sake, I’ve seen council prefabs from that era myself. Jesus fucking wept, how fucking inept.
How do we constantly invert economy of scale? I built direct labour, which mea meant I paid the highest vat on nearly everything, to a high spec, for least than had of this. If I can do it one off, why are they paying 2x for stamp and repeat? Someone made a mint on this.
Time for a tribunal
Keep paying your taxes paddy. 10% of our budget
Is currently being spent on the new Irish. 14,000 homeless but if your Ukrainian they can pull out all the stops to give them a brand new home. It’s a great Ireland unless you’re Irish.
Jesus the writing in this article is torture to read.
“Ciaran O’Connor, is the State Architect attached to the OPW. He said there are two steps in the overall cost.”
“Dep Stanle was concerned that the homes were very small but Mr O’Connor the technology was not there and the modular homes sector is an embryonic industry.”
Am I having a stroke?
€25k is a cost of small, metal composite unit with 2 bedrooms, living room, bathroom.
On the other end of scale – 10m was a cost of a full estate with 50 houses, state of the art insulation and heating, including ground works and services. How the hell prefab, which by definition is a mass manufactured unit, can cost 300k?
Such value for tax payers hard earned cash.