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CONSTRUCTION TOP 50 CIF CONTRACTORS 2019

10COLLEN CONSTRUCTION TOTAL TURNOVER: €270.6MROI TURNOVER: €237.7MINTERNATIONAL TURNOVER: €32.9MYEAR END: 31/03/19ADDRESS: River House, East Wall Road, Dublin 3.PHONE: 01 874 5411WEB: www.collen.comKEY EXECUTIVES: Neil Collen, Chairman; Tommy Drumm, Managing Director; Declan Lowry, Director; David Lee, Director; Donal Hennessy, Director; Tom O’Connor, European Director; Kara Stuart, Company Secretary; Philip Walsh, Financial Controller; Sinead Savage, Head of Business Development; Joe O’Dwyer, Health & Safety Manager; Rebecca Reilly, Quality and Environmental Manager.KEY ACTIVITIES: Main Contractor, General Building.

Established in 1810, and still a family-owned business, Collen has successfully tendered for a range of clients, including large multi-national corporations, private companies, local authorities, and

State bodies.Collen operates a quality management system that ensures that

projects are delivered to the specification and timescale required by clients.

On 26th April 2018, Collen became one of the first organisations in the world to achieve ISO 45001 accreditation, the international standard for Occupational Health and Safety.

“Activity in our core business in Dublin remains strong, but resources across the industry are a challenge,” says Tommy Drumm, Managing Director, Collen Construction. “We offer equal opportunities in the workplace, and we continue to hire apprentices, engineers, planners and quantity surveyors to allow us to develop strong resources in-house to meet the needs of our growth. Collen is very mindful that its success is down to the people who continue to deliver for clients time and time again. The retention of our staff is something that we are very proud of, and our core family values are key to this success.”

RECENT PROJECTSIn June 2018, Collen handed over a new landmark office development, Scot’s Church, Abbey Street, Dublin. This project involved the conservation of the original listed ‘Scot’s Church’ and the construction of the striking new seven-storey architectural exoskeleton steel frame building around part of the Scot’s Church protected structure.

In April 2019, Collen completed Block I, Central Park for Green REIT Plc, having previously completed Block H in 2017. This seven-storey, over two-level basement, high-spec office development was built to a LEED Gold standard.

In June 2017, Collen began the construction of One South County in Leopardstown. This six-storey office development will include fully-landscaped roof terraces with penthouse roof gardens, and it will be built to LEED Gold specification.

In recent years, Collen has been transforming the commercial heart of the south Dublin village of Blackrock. In January 2017, works commenced on the €30m Frascati Shopping Centre refurbishment and extension in Blackrock. It then secured the contract for Enterprise

House, incorporating the demolition of a 1980s building and the construction of a new five-storey office block. In January 2019, Collen commenced work on the regeneration of Blackrock Shopping Centre, adjacent to Enterprise House.

Collen is now the largest data centre construction company in Ireland, having completed 13 data centres on seven separate campuses across three countries.

“While we maintain our core business in Ireland, we believe that our strategic partnerships across Europe will strengthen our market position as we continue our relationship with current and new clients,” says Tommy Drumm. “Some of Collen’s key priorities going forward are IT standardisation, project controls, pre-construction management, off-site modular construction, and the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM), which allows greater collaboration on our project between all stakeholders, resulting in projects being delivered faster and with greater cost efficiency,” he concludes. C

Scot’s Church, Abbey Street, Dublin.

CGI of Enterprise House, Blackrock, Co Dublin.

CGI of Frascati Shopping Centre, Blackrock, Co Dublin.