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Founded in 1992, Designer Group is now a leading innovative and sustainable provider of mechanical, electrical and instrumentation engineering solutions. The business provides trusted MEP expertise for clients on an international scale, across Ireland, the UK, Europe, Africa and North America, with a client base spread over 14 sectors, including data centres and life sciences.
As a trusted and reliable partner of choice, Designer Group has delivered challenging projects across the data centre, life sciences, industrial, manufacturing, commercial, sustainability, infrastructure and energy sectors. Designer Group’s outstanding people, with the quality of its delivery and personable approach, have built its longstanding reputation in the industry.
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Investing In People
Designer Group employs an exceptional and engaged team of more than 1,000 people. Underpinning its people approach are its core values of ‘Safe’, ‘Trust’, ‘Respect’, ‘Challenge’, and ‘Deliver’. These values set the tone for everything it delivers for clients and people.
Designer Group promotes a strong culture of learning and development, most recently launching its group-wide ‘Performance Excellence’ appraisal programme, designed to support employee progression and development. It is recruiting and developing apprentices, graduate engineers and surveyors to support its growth plans while continuing to invest in its award-winning DG Training Academy.
Further proof of Designer Group’s successful investment in its people is the achievement of being the first contractor ever to be awarded the NISO Supreme Safety Award two years running, as well as the large number of repeat business opportunities it has secured over the years, recognition from clients for the quality of the Designer Group team.
Engineering The Future
Designer Group is committed to reaching net zero carbon by 2035 and has a dedicated team supporting the delivery of its sustainability strategy. The business has been involved in a number of cuttingedge renewable energy projects, supporting a cleaner energy future
Designer Group
TOTAL TURNOVER: €220M (ESTIMATED)
ROI TURNOVER: €120M (Estimated)
INTERNATIONAL TURNOVER: €100M (Estimated)
YEAR-END: 31/03/2023
ADDRESS: Clyde House, IDA Blanchardstown Business and Technology Park, Snugborough Road, Dublin 15.
PHONE: 01 860 0520
WEB: www.designergrp.com
LINKEDIN: Designer Group through the design and building of complex infrastructure, including completing the construction of three large biomass facilities in Africa. These plants now operate 24/7, 365 days a year, delivering significant reductions for its client’s carbon footprint.
KEY EXECUTIVES: Michael Stone, Chief Executive Officer; Paul Nicholls, ROI & International Managing Director; Paul Waugh, UK Managing Director.
KEY ACTIVITIES: Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
Designer Group is always seeking to push the boundaries in delivering sustainable, innovative environments. It utilises the latest building information modelling (BIM) technology, and it works from the assumption that all of its services can be prefabricated.
Delivering New Opportunities
Designer Group’s latest international milestone projects include expansion into the Nordics and North America, adding to its global presence. It is currently delivering the second and third phases of a mission-critical 36MW data centre facility in Norway and is close to the completion of another data centre project in Sweden.
The group has also recently commenced a significant biomass project and supporting infrastructure in Mexico.
In the UK, its growth plans are well underway to substantially increase work in the aviation sector, and the completion of the One Nine Elms landmark towers in late 2023 will reaffirm its reputation for delivering the tallest residential towers in Europe, using cuttingedge prefabrication technology for leaner, greener and safer operations.
The group is poised for further growth in the life sciences and industrial sectors, having recently completed work on a number of large pharmaceutical and related clean-room projects.
Designer Group Vision
Designer Group has a compelling vision, and with its recently approved growth strategy being implemented at pace by the leadership team, it has an exceptionally strong, committed order book with existing and new clients.
Looking ahead, Paul Nicholls, ROI & International Managing Director, Designer Group, says: “I am delighted to be leading Designer Group at this exciting time. We have a dynamic growth strategy and a superb team, which is grounded by our company values, focused every day on delivering for our clients.”
Electrical and instrumentation installation contractor STS Group employs over 1,600 staff working across some of the world’s most prestigious projects within the life sciences, data centre, energy, and food & beverage sectors.
Sts Group Markets
The data centre market has remained stable, with STS Group clients pushing ahead to build additional phases across existing campuses along with new developments both domestically and internationally.
Life sciences has seen phenomenal growth over the past several years, with 2022 seeing continued spend on new production facilities and capacity expansion programmes for vaccine production. Gene therapy is another critical area of growth, mainly throughout mainland Europe, with some large-scale investments made by companies such as Bristol Myers Squibb and Johnson and Johnson. Last year, STS Group commenced work in the Netherlands on a large-scale cell gene therapy facility for a leading blue-chip multinational that, when built, will be the largest of its kind in Europe.
STS Group has a healthy order book of work and continues work on multiple data centre projects domestically and internationally with some of the most recognised US-headquartered technology brands.
Cork remains a strong hub for life sciences, with small, medium and large projects in Blarney, Little Island and Ringaskiddy for leading healthcare brands.
In 2022, STS Group entered the Austrian market and is currently working on data centre projects in Vienna, with further opportunities to expand the business with additional spend tipped for the sector in the region. Similar to previous new regions entered, STS Group’s model is to expand operations in EMEA by leveraging capital projects and utilising that opportunity as a springboard for further in-country development both with new clients and sectors.
Technology
STS Group has kept abreast of developments and opportunities associated with adopting modern methods of construction (MMC) and digital technology by further developing its internal BIM capability, most recently receiving ISO 19650-2:2018 accreditation in 2022.
As more clients seek to utilise off-site construction, STS Group has continued to expand off-site prefabrication/construction facilities to
6 SPECIALIST TECHNICAL ENGINEERING SERVICES (STS GROUP)
TOTAL TURNOVER: €220M
ROI TURNOVER: €73M
INTERNATIONAL TURNOVER: €147M
YEAR-END: 31/12/2022
ADDRESS: Block10a, Cleaboy Business Park, Old Kilmeaden Road, Waterford.
PHONE: 051 508 009
WEB: www.stsgroup.ie
LINKEDIN: Specialist Technical Services (STS Group) meet these needs with facilities in both Dublin and Cork.
KEY EXECUTIVES: Richie Hogan, Managing Director; Liam Linehan, Business Development Director; Terry Kelleher, Finance Director.
KEY ACTIVITIES: Electrical and Instrumentation Installation Contractor.
STS Group has continued its lean journey with all management and supervision undertaking lean training to understand the tools associated with reducing waste and improving project delivery. A recent initiative included the creation and rollout of bespoke STS Group Last Planner boards.
Sustainability
STS Group recognises that the company’s activities have an impact on the environment, and, with that, it is committed to protecting the environment, preventing pollution and enhancing its environmental performance. Through implementing an environmental management system, STS Group works to prevent pollution and protect the natural environment from harm and damage as a result of its activities, along with improving its waste management practices.
Sts Group Staff
While resources remain a challenge across the industry, STS Group’s direct hire model and large workforce means the company is strategically pursuing opportunities where capacity is becoming available to alleviate exposure to the issue.
Health, safety, and wellbeing are central to the STS Group culture. With the pressures of the modern world ongoing, STS Group recognised the importance of supporting its employees and offers a comprehensive wellbeing programme that is active throughout the year. This year, for National Workplace Wellbeing Day, STS Group hosted a healthy breakfast for all of its employees to drive home the importance of eating well and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Events like this are scheduled on a regular basis throughout the year.
STS Group is committed to a culture of inclusion. The company has a diverse staff, across all age ranges, from young people entering trades to people at senior management level with four decades of experience.
During Pride Month, STS Group showcases its programmes to promote and support diversity in the workplace. STS Group launches a companywide awareness campaign for Pride Month each year whereby employees across the group come together to enjoy a coffee morning with doughnuts inspired by the iconic rainbow flag to learn about its origin, what it represents and why it is celebrated in June.
King & Moffatt Building Services is an award-winning mechanical and electrical contractor with over 400 directlyemployed personnel. It has over 45 years of experience in the building services industry and an annual group turnover of over €155m.
The company’s mission is to be the mechanical, electrical and process (MEP) partner of choice to key clients in all locations and sectors it operates in by providing efficient design, installation and maintenance services on all their sites and connected assets. It works closely as a partner with clients to ensure completion on time, within budget and to each client’s satisfaction.
King & Moffatt is certified to ISO9001 Quality Management Standard, ISO14001 Environmental Management Standard, ISO45001 Health & Safety Standard, and is Safe-T-Cert accredited.
KING & MOFFATT IRISH PROJECTS
The contractor has great experience in logistics, food, pharma, data centre, and advanced manufacturing sector projects and fully
KING & MOFFATT BUILDING SERVICES
TOTAL TURNOVER: €155M
ROI TURNOVER: €48M
INTERNATIONAL TURNOVER: €107M
YEAR-END: 30/06/22
ADDRESS: Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim.
PHONE: 071 962 0378
WEB: www.kingmoffatt.com
LINKEDIN: King and Moffatt Group understands the complexities and challenges of delivering these projects. It is also involved in high-profile Irish projects, such as Unit E, Baldonnell, Dublin; Bonham Quay, Galway; Technimark, Longford; LIDL RDC Mullingar; North City Civic Depot, Dublin; and Unit 4, Quantum Logistics Park, Co Dublin.
KEY EXECUTIVES: Pat King, Group Managing Director; Brendan Sweeney, Group Chief Operations Officer.
KEY ACTIVITIES: Design, Installation and Maintenance of Mechanical and Electrical Services, Offsite Prefabrication.
KING & MOFFATT UK PROJECTS
In the United Kingdom (UK), King & Moffatt has been involved in a number of major projects over the past year, such as the Alexander Stadium redevelopment in Birmingham, which was used last summer for the Commonwealth Games. Other significant projects include SmartParc Derby, Slough Data Centre, Pinewood Studios and LIDL RDC Luton, which is King & Moffatt’s largest project to date.
King & Moffatt is also a finalist in two UK awards this past year; MEP Specialist of the Year and Specialist Project of the Year (Value over £5m) in the Construction News Specialist Awards 2023, which celebrates the best specialist contractors in the UK.
KING & MOFFATT EUROPEAN PROJECTS
King & Moffatt continues to view mainland Europe as a strategically important market for the company. It has been active on multiple data-centre sites in Frankfurt over the past 12 months, as well as several other logistics and hospitality sector projects around Germany.
INNOVATION AT KING & MOFFATT
King & Moffatt’s two newest companies, King & Moffatt Offsite and King & Moffatt Connected, continue to go from strength to strength. These companies greatly strengthen the group’s design, build and maintenance offerings – with a particular focus on critical areas such as BIM, offsite prefabrication, and facilities management.
The contractor’s Carrick-on-Shannon offsite campus totals 40,000 sq feet, including a training facility and is specially fitted out for mechanical and electrical prefabrication. The team at its offsite facility delivers offsite prefabricated MEP solutions to its contracting businesses day-in-day-out in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe. Its offsite MEP solutions improve the speed of delivery, safety, and quality.
Founded in 1972, Radley Engineering celebrated 50 years in business last year as one of Ireland’s leading mechanical engineering companies.
Radley Engineering has a track record in delivering projects across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, oil/gas, pharmaceutical, biopharma and food/dairy.
Radley’s wide range of services includes:
• Process and utility pipework fabrication and installation
• Process equipment rigging and installation services
• Process vessel fabrication and installation
• High purity systems, including passivation and soft part change out
• Off-site manufacturing (OSM)
• Managing multi-disciplined subcontractors, including HVAC, scaffolding, cranage, insulation, painting, NDT, etc
• Commissioning support.
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Radley Engineering
TOTAL TURNOVER:
ROI TURNOVER: €84,767,599
€86,955,871
INTERNATIONAL TURNOVER: €2,188,272
YEAR-END: 31/07/2022
ADDRESS: Dungarvan, Co Waterford.
PHONE: 058 41199
WEB: www.radleyeng.com
LINKEDIN: Radley Engineering Ltd
KEY EXECUTIVES: John Radley, Managing Director; Thomas Radley, Managing Director; Brian Gill, Finance Director; Kevin Walsh, General Manager/Director; Caimin Radley, Projects Director.
KEY ACTIVITIES: Mechanical Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation.
Radley Engineering Clients
Radley Engineering is a customer-focused company that has delivered and continues to deliver critical projects to its clients. Its client list includes many leading multinational corporations that it collaborates with on design and engineering through early contract engagement. Radley Engineering encourages and promotes early contractor engagement, modular design, and an integrated project delivery (IPD) approach by offering modular construction experience to maximise off-site manufacturing (OSM) opportunities for its clients. Its goal is to enhance safety, quality, cost and scheduling during the construction and turnover phase of clients’ projects.
Most of Radley Engineering’s business comes from repeat clients in Ireland and Europe. Recent projects include pharmaceutical projects for Regeneron in Limerick, Eli-Lilly in Kinsale, Bio-Cork in Ringaskiddy and MSD at its Carlow and Ballydine sites.
Msl Engineering Ltd
TOTAL TURNOVER:
ROI TURNOVER: €69M
€77M
INTERNATIONAL TURNOVER: €8M
YEAR-END: 31/03/2023
ADDRESS: Ringport Business Park, Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.
PHONE: 021 451 3550
WEB: www.mslengineering.ie
LINKEDIN: MSL Engineering Ltd
YOUTUBE: MSL Engineering
KEY EXECUTIVES: Brian McGrath, Managing Director; Leonard Cronin, Operations Director; Paul Coughlan, Engineering Director; Kevin O Sullivan, Commercial Director; Dave Ronan, Projects Director; Conor McGrath, Production Director.
KEY ACTIVITIES: Mechanical Engineers and Contractors.
MSL Engineering Ltd is a full-service mechanical engineering contractor operating across a wide range of industry sectors. With over 40 years of expertise and a flexible project management approach, MSL delivers best-in-class projects utilising BIM and modular fabrication processes to the highest standards of workmanship, safety, quality and reliability.
Msl Services
Founded in 1979, MSL Engineering specialises in the fabrication and installation of process, utility and high-purity pipework, platforms and steelwork, and equipment installation across many industry sectors.
MSL’s service offering includes modular fabrication and assemblies, managing multi-discipline subcontractors including HVAC, scaffold, craneage, insulation, painting, NDT, etc, while utilising BIM and 3D modelling design processes.
Msl Markets
With a workforce of over 700 people, MSL has grown to become one of the leading players in an industry that has seen parallel growth in the pharmaceutical, biopharma, semiconductor, chemical, oil and gas, energy, data centre and food & beverage sectors.
Originally established to provide craft support to the fledgling but now defunct NET plant in Marino Point, Cork, over time, the business expanded its client base and developed a reputation for reliability, engineering excellence, and the ability to get the job done.
Retaining the roots of the original founders of the business, the company is a wholly owned Irish entity and has organically evolved from providing support services to local industry to a position where it now competes successfully for large-scale engineering projects and provides a full range of engineering and constructability solutions to clients throughout Ireland, the UK, Europe and the US.
HEALTH & SAFETY
Working in inherently hazardous industries, the business has always taken an uncompromising approach to safety. This can be seen in its high standards and long-standing safety record, its ISO45001accredited safety management system and its behavioural safetybased systems of work.
MSL’s desire to continuously improve to stay ahead of the competitive curve has led it to identify and invest in new business processes in recent years. As a result, the company significantly increased turnover and expanded its area of operation to include the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark.
Early Contractor Engagement
MSL encourages and promotes early contractor engagement and an integrated project delivery (IPD) approach by offering modular design and modular construction experience to maximise offsite manufacturing and fabrication (OSM) opportunities for clients.
The company’s investment in digital technologies means MSL continuously improves its BIM offering to clients and its digital project delivery (DPD) capabilities.
Reflecting strong growth, MSL has invested in a modern 140,000-sq-foot fabrication facility in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork. This new facility, adjacent to the newly relocated Port of Cork, includes a large-scale modular fabrication workshop, a piping fabrication workshop and an 8,000-sq-foot clean piping workshop. This enables MSL to continue to service all its existing clients and expand and develop relationships with new clients in Ireland and abroad.
Brian McGrath, Managing Director, MSL, comments, “Our focus in developing a standard of performance is to ensure all MSL personnel are empowered to achieve their full potential and are recognised for doing so. Our performance standard defines how well each function or task must be performed in order to meet or exceed expectations, thus, ensuring our standards are best in class.”
With continued growth, a new modern fabrication facility, ISOaccredited management systems in Safety (ISO45001), Quality (ISO9001), and Environmental (ISO18001), and investment in new innovative business processes, MSL Engineering Ltd continues to challenge itself to deliver the highest standard of service that it believes is deserved and expected by its clients.
BMD & COMPANY LTD
TOTAL TURNOVER: €68.1M
ROI TURNOVER: €68.1M
YEAR-END: 31/12/2022
ADDRESS: 8 Eastgate Avenue, Little Island, Cork, T45NF24.
PHONE: 021 486 9500
WEB: www.bmd.ie
LINKEDIN: BMD Co Ltd
KEY EXECUTIVES: Kevin McCarthy, Managing Director; Paul Keegan, Offsite Manufacturing Director; Kieran Murphy, Director, Munster Region; Kevin McKiernan, Director, Eastern Region; Dominic O’Sullivan, Engineering Director Kieran Horgan, Finance Director/Company Secretary; Frank O’Keeffe, Director.
KEY ACTIVITIES: Process Mechanical Contractor.
With almost 50 years as one of Ireland’s leading mechanical engineering companies, BMD & Company Limited (BMD) has a track record of delivering projects across a wide range of industries, including life sciences, semiconductors and chemicals.
BMD is a customer-focused, solution-driven company that has delivered and continues to deliver mission-critical projects to its clients.
Bmd Services
BMD’s wide range of services includes:
• Process equipment rigging and installation services
• Process and utility pipework fabrication and installation
• High-purity systems and specialist services, including passivation
• Off-site manufacturing (OSM)
• Mechanical design services (LOD 200 to LOD500)
• Production and utility plant maintenance services.
BMD’s client list includes many leading multinational corporations. It also collaborates with its customers’ design and engineering partners on early engagement activities to accelerate project programmes.
Business Update
BMD continues to experience strong growth across the business, which is primarily driven by large-scale capital projects in Leinster and Munster regions.
It continues to build out its management team with the recent internal promotion of Tony O’Keeffe to the role of estimating and business development manager, the hiring of Dominic O’Sullivan into the engineering director role and most recently the hiring of Gráinne Hegarty for the company’s HR management position.
These appointees each bring a wealth of experience to their roles, and BMD is delighted to have such talented people choosing BMD as the company where they can advance their careers.
Cjk Engineering
TOTAL TURNOVER: €62,105,417
ROI TURNOVER: €62,105,417
YEAR END: 31/12/2022
ADDRESS: Unit 1 The Business Centre, Stadium Business Park, Ballycoolin Road, Dublin 11.
PHONE: 01 882 9700
WEB: www.cjkengineering.ie
LINKEDIN: CJK
TWITTER: @CJKEngineering
KEY EXECUTIVES: Vincent Bruen, Managing Director; Eamonn Thornton, Operations Director; Aidan Bird, Pre-Construction Director; Conor Kearney, Executive Director.
KEY ACTIVITIES: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering.
CJK Engineering is an Irish-owned mechanical and electrical services contractor established in 1998. Based in Dublin, the company has steadily expanded its operations over the past 25 years and employs 350 people.
CJK’s success results from its dedication to building lasting relationships and a commitment to excellence in the data centre, industrial, pharmaceutical, public and commercial sectors. It partners with private clients, electrical consulting engineers, building contractors, architects and quantity surveyors to deliver best-in-class mechanical and electrical services.
In 2021, CJK acquired McGrattan and Kenny, a mechanical services contractor, in a move that will lead to 100 new roles being created to bring the group’s headcount to 400 people by 2025.
Cjk Engineering Projects
CJK’s portfolio of recent and current projects includes the completion of several pharmaceutical and industrial projects for clients Amgen, MSD and Takeda, as well as works for Dublin Airport, Facebook, Beaumont Hospital, VHI and the OPW and the new 205,000-sq foot Garda HQ in Dublin city centre.
Cjk Engineering Staff
CJK Engineering is led by a multidisciplinary senior management team from diverse backgrounds, steered by managing director Vincent Bruen. They embody CJK’s values and are committed to attracting, retaining and progressing talent within CJK.
CJK Engineering lives by its values – People, Respect, Energy, Quality and Knowledge – and these values form the foundation of how its management team grows the organisation. As a result, CJK has a reputation for its unique culture underpinned by its commitment to its employees.
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Lynskey Engineering Ltd
TOTAL TURNOVER: €54,100,000
ROI TURNOVER: €29,830,000
INTERNATIONAL TURNOVER: €24,270,000
YEAR END: 31/12/2022
ADDRESS: Dartmouth House, Kylemore Road, Dublin 10.
PHONE: 01 460 1556
WEB: www.lynskeyeng.ie
LINKEDIN: Lynskey Engineering Ltd
KEY EXECUTIVES: Sean McElligott, Managing Director; Kevin Carolan, Company Secretary; John Brierton, Director; Bernard Corrigan, Director; Noel Gavin, Director; Eamonn Heery, Director.
KEY ACTIVITIES: Mechanical Engineering.
Lynskey Engineering Ltd, founded in 1964, is one of Ireland’s leading mechanical engineering contractors. It has a reputation for quality installations delivered on time and within budget.
Lynskey operates on the basis of delivering quality design, construction, installation and maintenance of mechanical systems within Ireland and mainland Europe, and in the process building sustainable relationships with clients, its supply chain, employees and site teams to deliver class-leading projects in a spirit of cooperation.
Lynskey Engineering Projects
Lynskey Engineering provides services to a broad range of sectors, including data centres, industrial facilities, commercial developments, retail, healthcare and hotels.
During 2022, 45% of the group’s turnover was from outside of Ireland. Overseas work took place in the UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia and France. In Germany, Lynskey has undertaken some of its largest projects and has had a continuous presence there since 2010. The company is scheduled to reach substantial completion on a 27MW data centre in Frankfurt at the end of 2023 and completed a large hotel in Mannheim during 2022.
Recently completed projects include data centres in Ireland, Germany and the UK; a landmark store for Primark in Belfast; and a major extension to Kerrygold Park in Mitchelstown.
Current projects include data centres in Ireland and Germany; Four Park Place (a 22,000-sq-metre Grade-A office development); Blackrock clinic extensions; Integer medical devices facility, Galway; retail developments in France, Poland and Ireland; and a power generation plant in Dublin.
Modern Methods Of Construction
As part of an industry move towards MMC, the proportion of Lynskey projects being undertaken off site is increasing. Off-site fabrication is yielding improvements in the timescales for project delivery, while quality is being improved by moving fabrication off site.