Built to Innovate - An initiative by Enterprise Ireland under the Housing for All programme
Build to Innovate - Clancy Construction
Build to Innovate - Cygnum

Grant Aid Packages
A suite of Lean, Digitalisation and Research & Innovation grant aid packages are now available for such projects where the impact will result in homes that are built faster, on time and with less expense.
Built To Innovate – Lean
Enterprise Ireland’s #BuiltToInnovate Lean Offer is designed to encourage the adoption of Lean principles in your organisation to increase performance and competitiveness.
Lean helps to address competitiveness issues within your businesses by building the capability of your people to identify problems, improve operations and create a more innovative organisation.
Lean Business Offer
Built To Innovate – Digital
Enterprise Ireland’s #BuiltToInnovate Digital Offer is about redesigning your business to serve your customers better, starting with a deep understanding of your customer needs and your value stream and then using new technology to improve the customer experience.
Digital Innovation
Built To Innovate – Research & Innovation
Enterprise Ireland’s #BuiltToInnovate Research & Innovation supports provide access to our expertise and contacts to increase the levels and value of R&D and innovation in your company. We can help you to undertake R&D and increase the amount of innovation in your business.
R&D and Innovation Supports
Contact
For further information about Built To Innovate, please email:
builttoinnovate@enterprise-ireland.com
Overview - Built to Innovate
Initiated under the Government’s Housing for All programme, the Built To Innovate initiative 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.
To Apply
News & Media

IJM Timber Engineering awarded Enterprise Ireland funding for an ambitious productivity improvement programme under the Housing for All ‘Built to Innovate’ programme (press release 26th Oct 2022).
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The Clancy Group has been funded for an ambitious productivity improvement programme under ‘Built to Innovate’, an Enterprise Ireland initiative under Housing for All (press release 11th Aug 2022).
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Cygnum, one of the largest timber frame manufacturers in Ireland, is today announcing ambitious plans to increase its output to help meet the targets set out by the Housing for All strategy (press release 27th May 2022).
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Note: This information will be regularly updated as the project develops.