Celebrating 10 years in business this year, ProDrive continues to lead the way as a Piling contractor specialising in precast driven, steel tubular, bottom driven mini piles and precast groundbeam systems. Building Ireland found out more from the company’s Operations Manager Joe Donaghey recently.
A decade since its birth and piling contractors ProDrive in Omagh, Co Tyrone is a company which currently finds itself as busy as it has ever been.
As well as being a now well renowned piling contractor, the firm also specialises in precast foundation packages and operates all over Ireland and the UK.
ProDrive is headed up by its founder Damien McCaffrey – a man that has built up many years of experience in his chosen field – and a little over a year and a half ago Joe Donaghey came on board with the business.
Joe was able to take time out of what has become an increasingly busy schedule as of late to tell Building Ireland about what they’ve been up to lately.
“Established in 2007, ProDrives head office and manufacturing facilities are located in Omagh, Co Tyrone which offer a good roads network to access anywhere in the country,” Joe explained.
“At the moment we’ve 25 staff and I’ve been Operations Manager since coming on board 18 months ago. Damien McCaffrey is the company owner and founder.”
The head office is currently situated on the Shanmullagh Road in Omagh with the production facility nestled in the local village of Drumquin. Due to expansion ProDrive is currently in the transition of moving both its head office and manufacturing facility to new purpose build production site within Omagh. ProDrive are ideally located for same day appointments across Ireland but are also available for foundation contracting services in England.
Specialists in their craft, they draw on many years of piling experience to deliver a level of quality which is simply second-to-none.
ProDrive offers a comprehensive range of piling solutions to meet the needs of difficult ground conditions to provide modern, innovative and economical foundation solutions for the construction and civil engineering industries.
Specialising in pre-cast driven piling, steel tubular piling, mini-piling and pre-cast concrete foundations, ProDrive offers ways of their expertise and technology which can benefit their clients’ works.
“ProDrive is a piling & foundation specialist contractor that has completed work in all sectors,” Joe stated.
“Currently we are quite busy and have been since around the middle of 2016 and hopefully things continue that way for us.”
Having started off in the middle of an economic downturn which took such a telling toll on the Irish construction industry, ProDrive has come through strongly to the point where it now looks to be thriving.
By offering its clients a variety of different services, ProDrive has become first choice for companies all across Ireland and in the UK in need of a piling & foundations contractor.
ProDrive’s mini-piling service is used for domestic renovation and extension foundations where access may be tricky and minimal disruption is vital, their mini piling services could be the answer that you are looking for.
Using smaller plant vehicles and specially designed foundation piles, they will create the structure you need.
The mini-piling service is ideal for most domestic build purposes and great for smaller public works too and is also cost effective and delivers a quick, reliable and safe result. Clients can get their project underway quickly with foundation preparation and testing by ProDrive.
They offer a competitively priced pre-casting and piling service for private and commercial building projects and all of the equipment is supplied by ProDrive. It is operated by qualified, fully insured operators, so you can be sure of a great result.
“We aim to keep a fresh and well maintained fleet of plant with one of the most recent piling rigs arriving just over a year old, from Finland” said Joe.
“With regards to lorries, we’ve just purchased a new Volvo from Dennison Commercials along with a transportation loader from Ashbourne Trucks.”
ProDrive pledges attention to detail and a deeper understanding of customers’ needs.
Some recent projects in which the company has completed have saw them travelling over to Glasgow and Swansea, although the most recent one sees ProDrive’s workers operating a bit closer to home.
“We just commenced a job for McAleer & Teague in Ballygawley carrying out the precast piling for a new mushroom and compost production facility for them,” Joe outlined.
“We also recently completed some work in Belfast City Hospital for Graham BAM Health Partnership and a school in Glasgow for Heron Brothers. A Lidl in Swansea for Tinnelly Construction and a housing development in Spalding for Charcon Concrete Solutions were also two projects that we recently finished, so we’ve been kept busy with those and we’ll be quite busy with this one now.”
All things considered, it’s not hard to understand why they’re clients continue to come to them first for all of their piling and foundation needs.
“When it comes to our clients, the majority of it is repeat business and we’re steadily building on our new clientele list year on year,” Joe said.
“I think part of the reason why they choose us is because of the simplicity in the way that we work. We feel that we have everything in place quality wise here and in the space of 10 years we’ve managed to build up good trust with them.”
Indeed the company offers a comprehensive range of piling solutions to meet the needs of difficult ground conditions to provide modern, innovative and economical foundation solutions for the construction and civil engineering industries.
All ProDrive’s employees are fully trained and certified and our manufactured products are all CE certified.
Prodrive Ireland Ltd
21 Shanmullagh Road, Omagh,
Co Tyrone
BT78 5QF
Tel: 028 8224 5450 | 07884 078 158
E-mail: [email protected]
Taken from Building Ireland Magazine, July 2017, Vol 3 No 6
