2018-19 MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY The Voice of the AECI Electrical Contracting Industry The Professional Association for the Electrical Contracting Industry For Membership Details, Newsletters or General Information call: Association of Electrical Contractors (Ireland) Woodview Centre, Main Street, Celbridge, Co. Kildare Tel: 01 610 2715 Email: [email protected] Website: www.aeci.ie AECI BENEFITS The AECI provides information, assistance and professional guidance on: • Industrial Relations Matters • Financial/Job/Tender Pricing • Banking • Health and Safety • Profitable Business Management • Business Training and Coaching • Problem Solving • Insurance • Wage Rates, Holiday and Technical representation As a valued member of the AECI you will receive the following discounts: • Savings from ARACHAS providing Solutions for the AECI Member • Up to 20% Savings for Big Red Book (Accounts & Payroll Packages) • DAS (Legal Support Insurance on personal & technical issues, Helpline Services etc.) CONTENTS 02 President’s Message 03 - 04 Former Presidents 05 AECI National Executive 2018 06 Support Services 2018 & Honorary Officers Board 07 - 08 Adverts 09 Carlow - Cavan - Clare - Cork Listings 10 Cork - Down - Donegal Listings 11 - 14 Donegal - Dublin Listings 15 Dublin - Galway Listings 16 Adverts 18 - 21 AECI Trade Show 2018 - Pictures 22 - 26 Adverts 27 Galway - Kerry - Kildare - Kilkenny Listings 28 Kilkenny - Laois - Leitrim - Limerick Listings 29 Limerick - Longford - Louth - Mayo - Meath Listings 30 Meath - Roscommon - Sligo - Tipperary - Tyrone - Waterford Listings 31 Waterford - Westmeath - Wexford - Wicklow Listings 32 Annual Leave / Public Holidays 2018 - 2019 and Advert 33 - 40 Adverts PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE AECI AECI Membership ON Line on many subjects such as Safe Pass / Manual Handling/ Many thanks and welcome to our new members who joined in Abrasive Wheel/Asbestos Awareness and many other courses so 2017/2018 and much appreciation to our existing members for their keep in touch should you have a need for those listed or something continued support. different Get in Touch We Will Help. It is vitally important to our electrical contracting industry that AECI Contact the AECI Office, where Chris and his team Erika and can continue working to improve how it operates and to do this your Clodagh will very ably guide you to the relevant course. AECI Board members are participating on a good number of Trade Show Event 2018 Industry Committee’s and do so at their own cost. Our Electrical Trade Show 6th September 2018 was held this year Our membership currently stands at 198 so I ask should you meet in the Citywest Complex and it was a great success and was better with a fellow Electrical Contractor who may not be a member of attended than in previous years. any association, please encourage them to join the AECI as their We are great full to all those Companies who took a Stand and involvement makes our Association stronger. Participated on the day in total we had 34 Stand Holders which was Staying Power an increase on last year’s number. I wish to extend a special thanks on your behalf to Mr. Mattie Ryan Also, many thanks to the Safe Electric/RECI for their support in (Hon Treasurer AECI) a past AECI President and currently the participating and the Technical Seminars were of immense interest. (RECI) Safe Electric Chairman. Mattie has given 30 Years Many distributors and manufacturers of Electrical Products. unbroken service with the AECI as a Board member, not missing a The Trade Show is vitally important to our association as it assists single Monthly meeting, not to mention other committee’s in our costs so do assist in any way you can. engagements on your behave at his cost but to our benefit. AECI ARACHAS. Electrical Contracting Industry Today Golf Event was a great days Golf and the attendance was greatly On a very positive note, the Industry in which we operate today is increased on previous years. After which we all had and enjoyed now very much in recovery with strong forecasts for the coming Dinner in the City West Hotel many thanks to the Hotel Staff. Many years ahead. We acknowledge that recovery may be stronger in Thanks to Arachas Insurance for their very valued continuous some parts of the country. support to the annual Golf Event. However, we must be vigilant and mindful as there are industry AECI & Industry News changes coming such as a new SEO (Sectoral Employment Order) It has been a very busy year what with the Trade Show, the many and costs must be evermore considered and scrutinised. SEO/Connect meetings to form a new agreement going forward That said be proud, positive and forward thinking. All those who which we believe is fair to all. came through those awful years are to be admired, and those who The AECI is continuing with its Information Road Show meetings, set up in business in those same years are also to be admired. to meet with AECI members so we can get some feed back and The increase in the number of projects starting is now well also inform our members on developments to date. established, but has highlighted the lack of uptake in Committee Membership Apprenticeships and the vast number of Qualified Electricians that NERA/WRC. We (The SEO Committee) also met with NERA/WRC left the Industry and the country in the lean years. in Carlow to discuss and inform ourselves on their approach to a Solas possible new SEO and how they see it being Monitored/Policed. As the Electrical Industry is evolving on a number of fronts i.e. H&S NSAI. We have ongoing NSAI meetings re-Emergency Lighting Regulations new industry installation systems, CPD Testing Systems and its proposed changes and content. Certification and many more we have contacted Solas on several NASI & TC.2. Committees we also are participating on the TC.2 occasions with a view to setting up a meeting with Solas so we can Committee regards Industry standards and the new ET101 is due discuss the Electrical Apprenticeship curriculum as the Industry out shortly. evolves, however it is disappointing to report that we have gotten NSAI & TC 4. Active participation on the Dist. Boards Panel for no response from Solas to this request. future regulations You may remember that we were on the FAS Board of Directors NSAI. AECI we are actively participating on the ‘high tension’ but got no such invitation to join the Solas Board disappointing Standards Committee on a continuous basis because it is your Companies out there whom are the first AECI Electrical Trade Show, we are setting up a Sub Committee engagers with Apprentice’s who we then send on to Solas. We with a view to enhance our future Trade Show take up, so if any would greatly appreciate a meeting with Solas. member has an idea please contact Chris and his team. There is no doubt, that to encourage the bright students to take up In Appreciation Electrical Apprenticeships we believe that there should be more Many thanks to Chris Lundy for all his guidance to me during this relevant subjects on the Solas curriculum such as CPD Testing. time and to Erika and Clodagh for their ongoing great work, Also a re-jig of the 1st year rate increasing and the 4th year rate commitment and courtesy shown to me, the Executive Council decreasing. members and to all our AECI members. AECI Events Training Courses Finally, I would like to say that I have greatly enjoyed my term as Training and Upskilling our very valuable staff is now very much a President & would like to express my best wishes and good luck to MUST item on all our agendas and with that the AECI is now the incoming AECI President for his term. developing and linking up with External Training centres to high Yours Sincerely light valuable courses which will be a great asset to your Company AECI President 2018 Colm Walsh and Staff with future Project qualification in mind. With the advent of the RECI/Safe Elect & CPD Electrical Testing System Course and Certification not to mention Safe pass etc there are more and more requirements coming down the track, so it is important that you engage with the AECI to avail of what is on the forward agenda in this regard. With this agenda in mind Please Note the following below: The AECI have been running courses nationwide, including now 2 FORMER PRESIDENTS AECI 1960-1969 R. S. Simonds 1979-1981 Michael Moran 1969-1970 J. Dillon 1981-1983 T. C. Dignam 1970-1971 D. O’Sullivan 1983-1984 P. J. Fox 1971-1972 J. Hopkins 1984-1985 John Ryan 1972-1973 J. Keatinge 1985-1988 Brendan Hall 1973-1974 W. Knowles 1988-1989 Maurice Burke 1974-1976 A. Sweeney 1989-1991 Michael Moran 1976-1977 John Ryan 1991-1994 Tom Heffernan 1977-1979 Seamus Elmore 1994-1996 Sean Dungan 1996-1998 Shelagh Ennis 1998-2001 Mattie Ryan 2001-2003 Gerard Goggin 2003-2005 Jack Hegarty 2005-2008 Dermot McClannon 2008-2010 Jack Hegarty 2010-2012 Brian Flanagan 2012-2014 Brian Hickey 2014-2018 Tommy Maher John Ryan Seamus Elmore 2018- Colm Walsh Michael Moran Peter J. Fox Brendan Hall Maurice Burke 3 FORMER PRESIDENTS AECI Tom Heffernan Sean Dungan Shelagh Ennis Mattie Ryan Gerry Goggin Jack Hegarty Dermot McClannon Brian Flanagan Brian Hickey Tommy Maher Colm Walsh 4 AECI NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 2018 OFFICERS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL President: Seamus Byrne (Carlow) 059 913 1890 087 256 0224 Colm Walsh Pat Clarke (Westmeath) 044 922 6113 087 669 2583 Vice President: Michael Costello Michael Costello (Dublin) 01 8623800 087 262 7361 Honorary Secretary: John Dungan (Dublin) 01 838 3221 087 260 5912 Gerry Geoghegan Brian Flanagan (Laois) 057 864 8984 087 663 7777 Honorary