C.O.D Plant & Civil Engineering Ltd’s stamp is all over some of the most high-profile construction projects carried out in Dublin in recent years. Ollie Pinfield sheds some light on how the company has evolved to the point where it is regularly rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest names in Irish construction.
Under the expert and experienced supervision of Conor Hughes and brothers, Ollie and David Pinfield, C.O.D Plant & Civil Engineering work closely and collaboratively with their valued clients to deliver the solutions they need.
The trio bring a wealth of experience to the table and that’s why their company was brought on board by BAM Building Ltd to carry out all drainage work, campus roads and related work, on the new children’s hospital (NCH) project which is the largest public construction project ever awarded in Ireland.
The NCH project comprises the main hospital on the shared campus at St James’s and two paediatric Outpatient and Urgent Care Centres CHI at Connolly, Blanchardstown, and CHI at Tallaght.
When complete, it will have a significant impact on 25% of the population and is a Government priority, it is the most significant capital investment project in the healthcare system undertaken in Ireland.
It will bring together the services currently provided at three children’s hospitals into a modern, custom-designed, digital, hospital at St James’s campus, to deliver the best care and treatments for Ireland’s sickest children and young people.
As well as playing a central role in the provision of acute paediatric healthcare services, the new children’s hospital will be the primary centre for paediatric education, training, and research in Ireland.
It will be a child-centred, world-class facility that will support innovation and excellence in paediatric healthcare, and create an environment that is supportive of children, young people, their families, and the hospital’s staff.
The C.O.D Plant & Civil Engineering team arrived on the 12-acre site in the summer of 2018 and they’ve been diligently at work ever since…
“Our main contract works was the drainage in the basement, which comprised of 6.5 to 7km of drainage pipes, the main campus roads and extensive enabling works,” Ollie Pinfield pointed out in conversation with Building Ireland. “We are now working on a new underground tunnel which is linking the new hospital with the existing hospital. It looks like we will be on site for another year, maybe up until the end of 2022.”
Formed in 2010, Dublin-based C.O.D Plant & Civil Engineering Ltd didn’t waste any time in emerging as a significant player in their chosen field of expertise. Through hard work, the company has earned itself an enviable reputation as one that can be trusted to get quality jobs done.
“By 2016 we were up to having 50 people out on various sites. We’ve been fortunate to work on a lot of high-profile jobs, from Data Centres to Dublin Airport. We spent two years working on the new north runway in Dublin Airport.”
Ollie added: “Although we are a relatively young company, myself, Conor and David would have built up approximately 30 years’ experience each in drainage and civils works.
“We are proud of the quality of our work and we are flexible in that we are always working for the customer.”
C.O.D first started working with BAM on Microsoft Ireland’s Hi-Tech HQ at Leopardstown. Today, that particular development accommodates up to 2,300 staff with 35,000sq m of offices and 14,000sq m basement space. The campus was officially opened in February, 2018 by then Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar T.D.
“We started with BAM on the Microsoft Ireland project, then we ended up in the Childrens Hospital. We’re delighted and proud to be working with BAM on a number of projects, including the new schools framework in Ballinteer and Knocklyon, and a number of high profile hotel and residential projects.”
With a fleet of 20 excavators (ranging from 5 ton to 35 ton), numerous dumpers and associated machinery, it has very much been a case of so far, so good for C.O.D Plant & Civil Engineering in the 11 years since its inception. Switching his focus to the future, Ollie said they have no intention of resting on their laurels.
“Given the growth in the industry it’s only natural that you would want to be expanding in a small way but any expansion would be very much slow and steady from our point of view.
“The outlook for the industry is good, if you can believe half of what we are hearing at the moment, the industry is going to be busy for the next seven or eight years, at least. We hope to be in a position to capitalise on that,” he concluded.
C.O.D Plant & Civil Engineering Ltd
14 Manorsfield Close
Clonee
Dublin 15
This article was published in Building Ireland Magazine, February 2022, Vol 8 No 2
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