Abbeyside are Ireland’s leading workplace solutions experts. The Cork-based company specialise in office design, office fit-out, office refurbishment and office relocation. Managing Director Packo Maguire tells Building Ireland that the company’s aim is to create beautiful workspaces that actively drive success for their clients across the country.
Abbeyside & Co is a multi-award winning office fit-out company with extensive experience in delivering the most beautiful workspaces in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
At Abbeyside, they provide a successful ‘one-stop’ shop to co-ordinate and deliver the complete range of office planning, office fit-out and office refurbishment services to ensure successful project completion.
From Office Fit-out to Suspended Ceilings to Raised Access Floors to Glass Wall Partitions and Project Management, all of Abbeyside’s work is carried out to the highest possible standards and always in compliance with Irish, European and Industry laws and standards.
Under the supervision of Managing Director Packo Maguire and his brother Gareth (Contracts Director), the family-run enterprise has been doing office fit-outs for more than 35 years now. With every project they undertake, a dedicated project manager is assigned to keep their clients up to date with the progress of their projects as well as ensuring that the project runs smoothly and on time.
They will take your office space from a blank canvas to an award winning and inspiring place of creativity in record time.
Their client base reads like a who’s who of multi-national companies based in Cork and beyond and their list of satisfied clients includes the likes of global recruitment agency Morgan McKinley, Abtran, Dell, Logitech, VMWare, Mater Hospital, TYCO, Johnson Control, Arups and Horton Works.
Recent additions to that impressive list includes BlackBee Investments, Roberts Nathan Accountants (6,000 sq ft), NIB Group (7,000 sq ft), OtterBox (11,000 sq ft), Alien Vault (11,000 sq ft), Glandore, FireEye, Nginx (14,000 sq ft) and FMC International.
As MD Packo explained: “Our clients don’t want what their neighbours have, they demand a higher level finish for their own Fit-Outs and our business is all about interaction with our clients and bringing quality ideas and products to them. We offer a full turnkey service and it’s based on a trust that is established between ourselves and our clients right from the inception phase.”
Abbeyside’s teams of office designers, workplace consultants and office fitting-out specialists have extensive and in-depth knowledge of how good office design and fit-out can substantially reduce real estate costs, improve your business performance and profitability, and help attract and retain key people.
In addition, they install and certify all kinds of structured cabling solutions including Cat5e installations, Cat6 cabling and Cat6A systems. They also offer full Fibre Optic Cabling Services, both Multimode and Single Mode as well as assistance and service for office moves and changes.
The personal touch is another key ingredient in their successful winning formula, according to Packo.
“Because we’re a family-run business, there is a high level of interaction between us and our customer base. Our clients know that they can pick up the phone and ring us day or night. Crucially, we enjoy what we do, we enjoy meeting new clients and new challenges.
“For example, we recently successfully completed a project for Glandore Cork, that would normally have taken 14 weeks, in nine weeks. They had their move in date that had to be achieved and we achieved it. We have never let a client down in the past and have no intention of doing so in the future.”
That partially explains why Abbeyside’s service are very much in demand at this point in time. “The future outlook is very positive and job-wise we’re technically full right through to the end of next year. We recently started two new projects – on behalf of Nginx International and FMC International who have relocated its headquarters to Little Island – and we have 12 to 15 months’ work ahead of us.”
At Abbeyside they take the stress out of office fit-outs and moves. Whatever your success requires they have you covered. They take care of all the details big and small.
They possess the experience and knowledge to streamline the project management of your office design and fit-out using our proven systems and extensive experience. They simplify the task to ensure that you get the best possible office space, with the minimum amount of stress.
“It’s all about us working with the customer – the customer telling us what they want and us achieving their vision. And, as far as we would be concerned, the more extreme their vision, the better!” Packo concluded.
Abbeyside & Co
Rocklodge
Old Blackrock Road
Cork
T: (021) 431 7250
M: 086 255 7911
Taken from Building Ireland Magazine, September, Vol 5 No 9
