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Built to Innovate
Grant Aid Packages
30 companies have already taken the leap to work better, faster and leaner. These companies, supported by our grant aid packages, will build over 20,000 homes over the next three years. These grant aid packages support residential projects.
To set up a call with the team and understand if your business can be supported, contact builttoinnovate@enterprise-ireland.com
Built To Innovate – Lean
Our Built to Innovate Lean Offer is designed to deliver higher levels of on time and on budget project delivery.
Implementing these projects can have better subcontractor engagement leading to higher quality first time finishes.
Built To Innovate – Digital
Our Built to Innovate Digital Offer supports you to implement projects that will give you better and more reliable project and financial information.
These projects remove management headaches and are designed to give you the information you need when you need it.
Built To Innovate – Research & Innovation
If you have a new idea or you can see a way to improve a product or system, these grant packages could help you bring these to market.
Initiated under the Government’s Housing for All programme, the Built to Innovate initiative is aimed at increasing productivity and innovation with a view to reducing the cost of construction. It seeks to support Irish companies active within the residential construction sector who wish to enhance the operational performance of their business via:
Increasing the usage of Modern Methods of Construction.
Implementing Lean training in both manufacturing and onsite environments.
Improving the use of digital tools to drive company-wide productivity benefits.
Advancing research concepts or process innovation ideas.
The Built to Innovate initiative seeks to support companies in the sector who wish to pursue:
Enhanced usage and implementation of Modern Methods of Construction,
Implementing Lean training in both manufacturing and onsite environments,
Improving the use of digital tools that can bring productivity benefits,
Funding for research concepts or process innovation ideas.
Eligible Companies
To be eligible for supports businesses must:
Be Irish companies with a minimum of 10 full time employees,
Construction services and manufacturing companies that have a minimum of 20% of revenue derived from home building.
Eligible Activities
Projects seeking grant funding will be assessed as follows:
For productivity projects, the project to be undertaken must involve a new process or a significant improvement to an existing process which can demonstrate an impact on the cost of home building in Ireland.
For Innovation projects, the project must result in a new product or process which will have a demonstrable impact on the cost of home building in Ireland.
Each specific grant aid package will be subject to specific eligibility criteria that is detailed on the respective webpages.
Ineligible companies/activities
Projects seeking support for capital equipment expenditure – machinery, computers, electronic devices, software licenses etc. will not be supported.
Property developers who do not self-perform construction work.
Sole traders and partnerships.