Based in Ardfinnan, Co Tipperary, Marlhill Construction Services Ltd is a building, fit-out and project management company which is renowned for its excellent projects in the Premier County and across its borders. Building Ireland caught up with co-director Jamie Butler to hear all about the company’s current projects, newest clients and overall hopes going forward.
Business is busy these days at Marlhill Construction Services Ltd and the plan for father-and-son directors Seamus and Jamie Butler, as well as the entire team in Ardfinnan, is to try and keep things that way for the future.
Employing 27 full-time staff, the company are building contractors, fit-out contractors and project managers which provide site assessments, build cost estimates and domestic waste water treatment advice to its customers.
Seamus Butler founded Marlhill Construction Services Ltd in 2011 and his wife Betty and son Jamie have both played an integral part in its success along the way.
Building Ireland touched base with Jamie recently to discuss the ins and outs of the business and its move to a new premises in recent times.
“Business has been busy the last year or so now,” outlined the co-director. “We’ve had a couple of new employees brought in and we’ve moved our head office facility as well.
“We moved to a new facility in Clonmel and had to take on a few new people to handle the workload.”
Marlhill Construction Services is a family-run company that offers the full range of residential, commercial, conservation and renovation and building services, including management contracting, design and build and traditional building arrangements.
It’s also a developer of public-private partnerships and applies its expertise to everything from small renovations to multi-million-euro projects.
Right now, the company is immersed in numerous on-going projects throughout the Munster region and beyond, which Jamie was good enough to shed some light about.
“We are after finishing a largescale project in Waterford about a month ago for WWETB. It was a new training and further education facility for apprentices in Waterford city,” he explained.
It consisted of 55,000 sq ft industrial unit that was purposed into a training centre for W.W.E.T.B. They are hoping to have approximately 250 students all year round along with full employment for about 25 staff to expand their current training facility in the city. Marlhill Construction Services took on this project as Design and Build being both PSDP and PSCS and turned it out from start to finish in eighteen months.
“There was a total spend of about €8.5m on that project and it would’ve been one of the larger scale projects that we carried out in the last year.
“We finished another project for Tipperary ETB that was a Phase 5 in Archerstown that saw us put in a new canteen extension, a new fashion design workshop, a work from home hub and extra teaching spaces.
“We are carrying out works for the Irish Defence Forces, Mary Immaculate College as well and the Inland Fisheries Board at the moment. These projects are spread across a number of counties and are testament to our repeat clients who are at the forefront of our forecast.”
The company also has on-going works with Waterford County Council as part of the Cappoquin Regeneration Programme.
“We have continuous works being carried out with Resilience Healthcare and upgrades for the Irish Prison Services and have workings with new clients both in the Public and Private sector on which we look forward to working with in the coming years,” stated the Contracts Manager.
As well as that, Seamus and Jamie are overseeing a couple of private projects for clients which include a few home renovations and fit-outs.
As Jamie sees it, the continued success of the family firm is largely down to the very high standards that’s been set for it from the very beginning.
“We’re a well-established company and, once we understand the clients requests and needs, we seem to remain with them over the duration of their works and projects,” said the Tipp man.
“We are a repeat contractor for them and everything that we do we deliver to a high standard. We’ve great people working for us and, I suppose, it’s a testament to that that we actually do get repeat work. Some clients that we would have had since we started in 2011 are still there with us 13/14 years later.
“We have a good relationship with Consultants. Right from procurement to hand over stage, we have a good system in place for executing projects and our attention to detail is key to where we are.”
Looking towards the coming months for the business, Jamie says they’ll be eager at Marlhill Construction Services to continue on in the same manner and keep delivering top quality projects for their clients.
“The hope is to just maintain the company and encourage steady growth year on year for the next 13 again.
“As the Company grows it will be important to upskill our workforce and employ further new people.”
Marlhill Construction Service Ltd
9C Unit 9
Cashel Road
Clonmel, E91 K2Y7
Co Tipperary
Mobile: 087 904 9280
Phone/Fax: 052 74 66383
Email: [email protected]
This article was published in Building Ireland Magazine, December 2024, Vol 10 No 12
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