Commercial Construction Company in Dublin
Conneally Group is a trusted commercial construction company in Dublin, delivering construction, refurbishment, fit-out, retrofit, and industrial projects for businesses, public bodies, and organisations across the capital and Greater Dublin Area. With over 60 years of experience and 1,600+ completed projects, we bring the expertise, systems, and reliability that complex commercial projects in Ireland’s most demanding city require.
From live-environment fit-outs in operational healthcare facilities to large-scale retrofit programmes for public sector clients, our track record in Dublin speaks for itself. Government departments, semi-state bodies, healthcare providers, and leading private sector organisations trust us to deliver projects safely, on programme, and to the highest standards.
If you need a construction partner who understands Dublin’s regulatory landscape, manages risk proactively, and delivers results in challenging urban environments, Conneally Group brings the experience and commitment your Dublin project demands.
Commercial and industrial projects only. Residential enquiries are not serviced.
Dublin-Based
Dublin-Based Over 42 years of experience working across Dublin city and county, with established relationships with local authorities, planning offices, and specialist subcontractors throughout the region.
Commercial Specialists
We work exclusively in commercial and industrial construction — no residential, no divided focus. Every system, every process, and every team member is built around the demands of commercial projects.
Fully Compliant
Every project is delivered with full building control certification, fire safety compliance, and statutory documentation managed as standard, not as an afterthought.
Safety-Focused
Safety-Focused ISO 45001:2018 certified safety management, embedded across every Dublin project from pre-construction planning through to final handover.
Why Dublin Businesses Choose Conneally Group
We align with live-site requirements to reduce risk and remove procurement friction.
Six Decades of Commercial Construction Excellence
Founded as a painting contractor over 60 years ago, Conneally Group has grown into one of Ireland’s most established commercial construction companies. Our evolution from a family-run painting business into a multi-disciplinary construction group reflects decades of trusted client relationships and consistent delivery across Ireland’s most demanding projects including some of Dublin’s most complex commercial and public sector builds.
1,600+ Projects Delivered Across Commercial, Industrial & Public Sectors
Our portfolio spans healthcare facilities, education buildings, industrial warehouses, hospitality venues, state infrastructure, and commercial offices. We have delivered projects for government departments, the HSE, Dublin local authorities, semi-state bodies, and major private sector clients operating across the capital.
Dublin-Experienced Team With City-Specific Knowledge
Operating from our Galway headquarters and Dublin office on Bannow Road, Conneally Group combines national reach with the local presence that Dublin projects require. Our Dublin-based team understands the city’s planning environment, its building control requirements, and the logistical realities of delivering construction in a dense urban setting from restricted city-centre sites to occupied commercial buildings in Dublin’s busiest districts.
ISO-Certified Safety, Quality & Environmental Management
Conneally Group holds ISO 45001:2018 (Occupational Health & Safety), ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management), and ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management) certifications. In Dublin’s competitive commercial construction market, these accreditations reflect embedded management systems that govern how we plan, execute, and deliver every project — not simply credentials held for tender purposes.
Our Commercial Construction Services in Dublin
Commercial Construction & New Builds
We deliver high-quality commercial construction across Dublin, including office, healthcare, and retail developments. Our team focuses on regulatory compliance, programme certainty, and technical excellence. Whether you are expanding an existing site or delivering a phased campus development, we provide the planning discipline and market knowledge required for successful project delivery.Whether you are developing a new commercial facility, expanding an existing site in the Greater Dublin Area, or delivering a phased campus development, our team brings the planning discipline, technical expertise, and Dublin market knowledge required for successful delivery.
Refurbishment, Fit-Out & Fire Upgrade Works
Specializing in transforming occupied buildings and protected structures in dense urban locations, we manage refurbishment and fit-outs with minimal disruption. From corporate offices to healthcare facilities, we ensure business continuity while integrating critical fire safety upgrades that meet current regulations and achieve all necessary safety certifications for Dublin businesses.Our fit-out experience across Dublin spans corporate offices, retail units, healthcare environments, educational facilities, and public buildings. We also deliver fire safety upgrade works on Dublin's significant stock of older commercial buildings, ensuring they meet current fire regulations and achieve the required certification.
Retrofit & Energy Upgrade Projects
We help Dublin property owners future-proof assets against rising operational costs and tightening energy standards. Our comprehensive retrofit solutions—including insulation, window replacements, and renewable energy integration—ensure full compliance with Part L and NZEB standards. We balance upfront investment with long-term savings to improve building fabric and performance.From insulation and air-tightness works to heating system upgrades, window replacements, and renewable energy integration, our retrofit projects balance upfront investment with long-term operational savings and compliance across Dublin's diverse commercial building types.
Industrial Construction Services
Centered on the M50 corridor and Dublin’s key business parks, we provide robust construction planning for the industrial and logistics sectors. From warehouse construction to data center upgrades, we deliver durable, safety-critical execution. Our services include specialist floor coatings and high-pressure maintenance, ensuring minimal downtime in high-use operational environments.Our industrial services extend to specialist works including industrial floor coatings, high-pressure washing, intumescent fire coatings, and vacuum blasting — supporting maintenance and compliance programmes across Dublin's manufacturing, logistics, and data centre sectors.
Commercial Painting and Finishing Works
With six decades of expertise, we deliver unrivaled finishes for Dublin’s commercial and industrial sectors. We handle interior and exterior painting, protective coatings, and intumescent fire-rated systems. Our team ensures both aesthetic excellence and long-term performance, providing durable, compliant finishes for new builds, refurbishments, and planned maintenance contracts.We handle interior and exterior painting, protective coatings, fire-rated coatings, and specialist industrial painting systems — ensuring both the aesthetic standard and long-term performance that Dublin commercial clients and building owners require.
Industrial Services & Facility Maintenance
We specialize in surface preparation and protective coating systems for complex industrial environments, including bridges, pharmaceutical plants, and marine infrastructure. Our expert team utilizes Ultra-High-Pressure (UHP) water jetting, shot blasting, and diamond grinding to prepare surfaces, applying specialized resin, anti-corrosion, and fire-retardant coatings to ensure long-term durability and safety compliance.
- Diverse Construction Solutions
- Skilled Craftsmanship Guaranteed
- Tailored Project Management
- Focus on Safety and Compliance
Construction
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- Skilled Craftsmanship Guaranteed
- Tailored Project Management
- Focus on Safety and Compliance
Industry We Serve in Dublin
Dublin’s economy is one of Europe’s most diversified, and each sector operating within it carries distinct regulatory, operational, and safety requirements. Our experience across these sectors ensures we understand your specific constraints and deliver construction outcomes that genuinely serve your organisation’s needs.
Healthcare & Medical Facilities
We deliver specialized Dublin healthcare fit-outs with strict infection control, ensuring patient care continuity while upgrading operational wards and theatres.
Education & Training Buildings
We schedule Dublin education projects around academic calendars to minimize disruption, delivering classroom refurbishments and energy retrofits while ensuring student safety.
Hospitality & Leisure Spaces
We provide high-quality hospitality fit-outs and refurbishments across Dublin, ensuring minimal disruption to trading operations and non-negotiable standards for guest experiences.
Retail & Commercial Offices
From Docklands shell-and-core fit-outs to city-center office refurbishments, we create functional, compliant workspaces delivered within tight programmes and to premium finishes.
Industrial & Manufacturing Facilities
Specializing in Dublin’s logistics corridors, we deliver warehouse construction and facility upgrades with safety-critical planning and full regulatory compliance in live environments.
Public & Semi-State Buildings
We provide public sector projects with rigorous documentation and full OGP procurement compliance, demonstrating the accountability required by Ireland's government and semi-state bodies.
What Sets Conneally Group
Apart in Dublin
We’re Commercial Construction Specialists It’s All We Do
Unlike general contractors who divide their resources between residential and commercial sectors, Conneally Group operates exclusively in commercial construction. In Dublin’s competitive market, that focus matters — it brings specialist knowledge of commercial compliance requirements, refined project management systems, and a depth of relevant experience that generalist contractors working across multiple sectors simply cannot match.
Proven Live-Environment Expertise
Most contractors avoid live environments; we actively plan for them. Dublin’s dense commercial landscape means that the majority of meaningful projects involve occupied or operational buildings. Our ability to deliver complex works within live Dublin buildings — hospitals, offices, retail units, schools, and industrial facilities — is a genuine competitive differentiator, backed by a portfolio of successfully completed projects in the capital’s most demanding environments.
Compliance-First Project Delivery
Regulatory compliance in Dublin is not an afterthought — it is embedded into our planning and execution from day one. From building control notification and fire safety certification to infection control protocols in healthcare settings and heritage consent compliance for protected structures, we ensure every Dublin project meets all statutory requirements and is properly certificated at completion.
Strong Relationships With Repeat Clients
Our client relationships in Dublin include government departments, Dublin local authorities, HSE facilities, semi-state bodies, and major private sector organisations across the capital. These are not one-off project relationships — they are long-term partnerships built on consistent delivery, accountability, and the kind of reliable performance that earns repeat appointments across complex Dublin construction programmes.
Transparent Communication & Programme Management
Dublin commercial clients value clarity above all. We provide clearly defined scopes, realistic programmes built on Dublin market experience, regular progress reporting, and honest early communication when risks or issues arise. Our project management approach prioritises transparency and accountability — so that clients are never surprised by what is happening on their project or what it is going to cost.
Commercial Construction Case Studies
Public Sector Infrastructure: Nationwide Programme Delivery From Dublin
Conneally Group has delivered significant public sector construction and maintenance programmes with Dublin as a key delivery location — including infrastructure works, painting and protection programmes, and building fabric upgrades for semi-state bodies operating across the national rail network and state property portfolio. These projects are delivered under strict safety and operational protocols, with full compliance with public procurement and OGP requirements.
Healthcare Refurbishment in Live Dublin Hospital Environments
We have completed refurbishment and upgrade works within operational Dublin healthcare facilities — maintaining the infection control standards, safety segregation protocols, and clinical coordination requirements that live hospital environments demand. Works have included ward upgrades, fire safety improvements, and building fabric refurbishments delivered without disruption to patient care, coordinated directly with HSE facilities management teams.
Commercial Office Fit-Out & Refurbishment Across Dublin
Our Dublin office portfolio includes fit-outs and refurbishments across the city's primary commercial districts — from occupied office refurbishments in Dublin city centre to new fit-outs in Dublin's Docklands and suburban business parks. Projects are delivered to programme with detailed phasing plans that maintain occupier productivity throughout, and to a specification and finish standard that meets the expectations of Dublin's commercial landlords and tenants.
Energy Retrofit Programmes Improving Dublin Commercial Building Performance
We have delivered comprehensive retrofit programmes for Dublin commercial property owners and public sector building managers — achieving measurable BER improvements and Part L compliance while maintaining full building occupancy throughout works. Our retrofit project management includes coordination with energy assessors, building services contractors, and building control authorities to ensure that certified performance improvements are delivered and properly documented.
Our Work Process
Initial Consultation & Site Assessment
We begin with a detailed understanding of your requirements, operational constraints, budget parameters, and programme expectations. For Dublin projects, this includes site visits, review of planning and heritage status, stakeholder meetings with facilities managers and operational teams, and assessment of access, logistics, and any live-environment considerations that will shape how the project is planned and delivered.
Planning, Compliance & Programme Development
Detailed pre-construction planning ensures that Dublin's specific regulatory requirements — building control notifications, fire safety certification, conservation consents, and any planning conditions — are addressed before works commence. This stage also includes construction methodology development, safety planning for live environments, environmental control measures for urban sites, and full stakeholder coordination planning.
On-Site Construction & Quality Control
Works are delivered under continuous site supervision, with daily safety briefings, quality checks at every stage, and progress monitoring against the agreed programme. Regular client updates keep you informed of progress, and our site management team communicates proactively when issues arise — so that decisions are made quickly and the programme is protected. In occupied Dublin buildings, our site teams manage the interface between construction activities and building occupants as a continuous, disciplined process throughout.
Project Completion, Certification & Handover
Projects are completed with full building control certification, fire safety certification, statutory approvals, and as-built documentation. We conduct formal handovers with the client's facilities team — ensuring complete understanding of all building systems, warranties, and maintenance requirements — and provide a structured defects management period to ensure that any post-handover issues are resolved promptly and at no cost to the client.
Commercial Construction Services Across Galway & Surrounding Areas
Based in Galway with a Dublin office on Bannow Road, Conneally Group delivers commercial construction services across Dublin city and county, and throughout the Greater Dublin Area and Leinster.
Commercial Construction Projects Across Dublin City
We deliver projects throughout Dublin City across all commercial sectors — healthcare, education, hospitality, retail, offices, public buildings, and industrial facilities. Our Dublin city experience spans the full range of building types and planning contexts, from Georgian protected structures in the historic core to contemporary commercial developments in the Docklands and along the city's suburban arterial routes.
Serving Dublin County & the Greater Dublin Area
Our services extend across all four Dublin local authority areas — Dublin City, Fingal, South Dublin, and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown — and across the surrounding Leinster counties including Kildare, Meath, Wicklow, and Louth. Whether your project is in a suburban business park, a commuter town, or a rural county campus, our Dublin-based teams are structured to deliver.
Nationwide Project Delivery
Through our Galway headquarters and Dublin office, Conneally Group delivers projects across Ireland — including major programmes for public sector bodies, semi-state organisations, and national infrastructure clients. Our national delivery capability means that clients with multi-site portfolios across Ireland benefit from the consistency of a single, trusted contractor relationship.
Work We've Done
Projects & Designs
Our team of experts works closely with you to bring your vision to life, ensuring that every detail is meticulously executed.
Experience
Decades of expertise delivering quality and reliability
Happy Customers
Trusted partnerships built on quality and satisfaction
Projects Completed
Innovative solutions successfully delivered worldwide
Employees
A skilled team dedicated to bringing visions to life
Endorsed by Industry Leaders
What Our Clients Say
Conneally Group are a professional company with great knowledge and experience in a diverse industry. Excellent company to carry out works within stringent time constraints, Conneally Group are proven to be available to carry out works within flexible working hours to facilitate client and customer needs, professional management structure who are experienced in their industry, safety is of high importance with Conneally Group with competent staff to carry out the works. Reliable Company and would have no reservations about recommending them to others.
Conneally Group are a professional company with great knowledge and experience in a diverse industry.
Conneally Group are a professional company with great knowledge and experience in a diverse industry.
Conneally Group are a professional company with great knowledge and experience in a diverse industry.
Conneally Group are a professional company with great knowledge and experience in a diverse industry.
Conneally Group are a professional company with great knowledge and experience in a diverse industry.
Conneally Group are a professional company with great knowledge and experience in a diverse industry.
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FAQ
Do you handle fire safety certification and compliance in Dublin?
Yes. Fire safety compliance and certification are standard elements of our Dublin project delivery. We manage Fire Safety Certificate applications, building control notifications under BCMS, and Certificates of Compliance — ensuring every Dublin project is fully certificated and compliant at handover.
Can you work outside normal business hours on Dublin projects?
Where required, works can be scheduled outside normal operating hours — evenings, weekends, and public holidays — to minimise disruption to your business operations, building occupants, or neighbouring premises. Out-of-hours working is a standard capability on our Dublin projects, not an exception.
Do you manage design-and-build commercial projects in Dublin?
Yes. We work collaboratively with design teams, architects, and consultants to deliver coordinated design-and-build projects in Dublin, or we can work under traditional procurement on client-appointed designs. Our Dublin experience across both procurement routes allows us to add value regardless of the delivery model you choose.
Are you suitable for Dublin public sector or semi-state works?
Yes. We have extensive experience delivering projects for government departments, Dublin local authorities, the HSE, and semi-state bodies — and we fully understand the compliance documentation, accountability requirements, and public procurement frameworks these organisations apply. Our ISO certifications and established safety management systems support the elevated governance standards that Dublin public sector clients require.
How early should a contractor be involved in a Dublin project?
Early involvement is strongly recommended, particularly for Dublin projects where planning, heritage, and live-environment factors can significantly influence programme and cost. Bringing Conneally Group into feasibility or design stages allows Dublin-specific risks to be identified and managed before design is finalised — leading to more accurate budgets, fewer construction-stage variations, and better overall outcomes.
What are the risks of appointing a non-specialist contractor for Dublin commercial works?
Non-specialist contractors may lack experience in Dublin’s specific compliance requirements, live-environment management disciplines, and the programme rigour that commercial projects in the capital demand. This can result in cost overruns driven by underpriced risk, programme delays caused by inadequate operational management, and compliance failures at handover that prevent certification — all of which carry real cost and reputational consequence for Dublin clients.