With planning permissions in 2016 up 200% on 2014 levels, building work on farms looks set to increase dramatically. This will drive concrete sales as farmers invest in slatted sheds, dairy parlours and silage pits to modernise their farms through the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) II. The Department of Agriculture has made a real effort to improve the standard of concrete used in Irish farm construction. In 2015, it released S100, which is the minimum specification the Department uses for concrete used in construction work on agricultural structures. This latest specification introduces some new elements to the concrete specification. These include: