M & P Walls Limited is one of Ireland’s leading reinforced concrete sub and superstructure contractors, offering a full and professional service in all areas of reinforced concrete construction. Building Ireland caught up with Joe Wall to learn more.
It may only be up and running a couple of years but M & P Walls Limited in Co Carlow has already made big strides and established itself a reputation for producing top quality work.
A family run-outfit founded by father and son Joe and Patsy Wall, the latter’s extended career in concrete work sees M & P Walls Limited bring more than 40 years’ experience to the table when it comes to delivering projects on time, on budget and to the highest standard of workmanship.
Patsy’s son Joe has followed his father into the same line of work and together they’ve set-up a business which has grown at an impressive pace. Joe has twenty years’ experience in the formwork industry starting out with his father and ending up in a senior management position for one of the UK’s largest formwork contractors.
Joe was good enough to take time out of what is currently a hectic schedule to tell Building Ireland all about the company.
“We’re based in Rathvilly, Co Carlow and the company has been on the go two years now,” he explained.
“We have 50 staff consisting of tradesmen, general operatives and our management team. We’re formwork contractors. We work in reinforced concrete sub and we’re also superstructure contractors.
“My father has more than 40 years’ experience in this business and every project that we do here is done to exceptional standards, on time and to budget every time.”
Practical excellence and innovation combined with a hands-on management approach enables M & P Walls Limited to deliver all projects to the satisfaction of its clients.
The company is a reinforced concrete frame and substructure contractor capable of supplying services on both small and large scale contracts. They undertake all forms of concrete frame construction in all sectors including offices, residential developments, hotels, schools, shopping centres and leisure centres to name but a few.
At present, the business is thriving, with a number of different projects on-going throughout the Dublin area.
“Business is going well right now and obviously we’re delighted with that,” said Joe.
“It’s really starting to pick up and most of the work that we’d be doing at the moment would be Dublin-based and around the Leinster area.”
Prior to starting up the company with his father, Joe had been working across the Channel and upon his return home he had saw a niche in the market for a formwork contractor.
In short, the Walls had an inkling that the darkest days of the downturn were over and they were ready to start up a business to try and make the most of a potential upturn in the Irish construction industry.
“The company was founded at a time we felt that the worst of the recession was over,” he said.
“Before that, I went over to the UK in 2009 and came back after six years to start the business with my father. He has so many years of experience in this business so there wouldn’t be a better man out there to start it with.”
Already the company has acquired a number of clients which have been very much satisfied by their work, with Tolmac Construction and Holden Developments Ltd among the list.
Joe was good enough to tell us about some of the projects which they’ve recently started, having already had a busy start to 2017.
“We’re just finishing off an ambulance base in Dublin that we started last year for Purcell Construction and we’re currently working on a 70-bedroom nursing home in Maryfield for Purcells as well,” he said.
“We also just started a Maldron Hotel for JJ Rhatigan in Dublin, which is five floors over a basement, and it should be finished by October.
“We are also delighted to be working with M & P Construction on a three storey over basement Hotel Development in Ranelagh.
“Hopefully, projects like those will keep coming our way and we can keep growing more and more over the next couple of years.”
Acquiring such projects is no fluke, as clients like JJ Rhatigan & Co, M & P Construction and Purcell Construction are known for seeking the best in their chosen field in order to get the job done efficiently.
Such efficiency is a large part of the reason for M & P Walls Limited’s rapid growth and Joe feels there are a number of other factors that have contributed as well.
“I think experience has a lot to do with it,” said the Carlow man. “My father really does know this business inside-out and we have a great team here to complete an excellent job for our clients.
“Safety is a huge aspect of our business, as is our reputation. We have a personal touch and it’s helped us to build a solid reputation with our clients. We’re all singing off the one hymn sheet at this stage.”
M & P Walls Limited’s continually invest in the latest technology and training to minimise risk and ensure their workers remain safe all of the time. They take the same approach to quality, endeavouring to get it right first time round and eliminate the need for snagging by pre-planning and the use of the most up to date equipment available to them.
Now coming towards the halfway point of 2017, M & P Walls Limited are continuing to consistently fill their books with regards to work projects.
Joe can’t have any complaints about that but his hopes for the future are to broaden our client base and develop the relationships we have with our existing clients further.
“Really, we’re just getting going here and we’re now just looking to build more and more over the next couple of years,” he concluded.
Literally, that’s what M & P Walls Limited will be looking to do.
M & P Walls Limited
Rathvilly,
Co. Carlow
Tel: 059 91 28 666
Web: mandpwalls.ie
E-mail: [email protected]
Taken from Building Ireland Magazine, June 2017, Vol 3 No 5
