Engineers Week 2012 - this year themed ‘Connecting our lives’ - is ‘landing’ in Ireland on Monday, February 27 2012 and will run until Sunday, March 4.

The Repak Yearbook is included in the Repak Diary, which is sent to members at the start of each year.

The Irish Insurance Federation (IIF) has said that the estimated total insured cost of last October's floods is now €127m.

Prof Mark Ferguson has been appointed as the next director general of Science Foundation Ireland.

The sale of a stake in Northern Ireland Electricity's parent company ESB - planned for some time in 2012 - should boost the firm's independence from government, a top ratings agency has said.

Dublin local authorities are continuing to charge development levies in relation to the Metro North rail line, even though the project has been postponed indefinitely by Government.

Cavan-headquartered building materials group, Kingspan is considering sizing up a €300 million-plus acquisition in Germany, in a bid to expand in the country which accounts for nearly 10% of its annual revenues.

Northern Ireland Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson, visited Smiley Monroe Ltd in Lisburn, a family owned firm employing 90 people.

Adnap Holdings, the waste management business that includes Panda Waste, made a pretax profit of €1.23 million in 2010, according to its accounts.

Bolstering its effort to provide data center managers complete visibility over IT and facility operations, Schneider Electric is acquiring Viridity's EnergyCenter 2.0 platform.