A sunny October 10th saw the revival of the annual all island Pipe Industry Guild Golf Challenge at Warrenpoint, County Down. Under the guidance of respective captains’ Conor Bray and Adrian Blakemore, the respective Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland, PIG Committee Members went head to head in pursuit of the Silver Jug. The contest was hard fought from the 1st tee to the 18th  green and it all came down to the final pairing, when after a ‘long’ count the contest was pipped by the Northern Ireland lads, by a score of 77 to 75. Handing over the old trophy Adrian congratulated our NI opponents and wished them good fortune in minding it for the next 12 months!.

A happy and relieved Conor accepts the ‘Jug’ from Adrian

Team members at the 19th!.
(L-R) Kevin McAteer (Farrans), Stephen McNamee (Murphy),
Conor Bray (Amey), Michael Sheedy (RPA),
Jerry Martin (BBCLG), Conleth Greene (CÓRAS), Sean McGreevy (Phoenix Gas)

Monday 8th September marked another significant day in the development of CÓRAS with the official signing of our first direct contract with Uisce Éireann / Irish Water. With the formation of Irish Water acting as a catalyst for stimulation of the domestic civil engineering and water industry, CÓRAS are delighted to avail of  opportunities for young and start up supplier organisations.  To this end the company working in partnership with long established water network and rehabilitations specialists, Nu Line Utilities, have been successful in gaining selection to:-

Lot 1 –  laying of new potable water mains

Lot 2 – laying of new sewers

Lot 3 – connection works to existing potable water mains and sewers

Lot 5 – planned watermain leak repairs

for the 6 counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Dublin City, South Dublin, Fingal, Meath and Louth on the three year 13/098 Minor Civil Engineering Works Framework.

Our young team look forward with their typical enthusiasm to working closely with our partners in delivering a first class service over the life of the framework.

Congratulations to CÓRAS Technician Paddy McKillion on his and Tyrone’s success in winning his ‘All Ireland’ in the Nicky Rackard Cup. All the hard work, travelling and training paid off for our Poc Fada specialist. Well done Paddy from the whole team!.

Congratulations are in order to the team of Sinead Hussey, Jonathan Tuffy, Tony Slevin, Seamus Doyle and Damien Tuffy for the work put in developing the CÓRAS Safety Management System and achieving CHAS (SSIP) accreditation. This was no mean feat after only 9 months trading, a lot of hard work and good performance in the audit process contributed to the significant achievement. Well done to all!.

CHAS Certificate

Innovation is actively encouraged throughout all our operations, here Box Fitter Extraordinaire, Terry Morrow, demonstrates the multi purpose Barrow Lounger on a sunny spring day in Lucan (Patent Pending).

Terry in his Barrow Lounger

CÓRAS and PSS Hire arranged a 1 day trial of the new IVAC Unit in Liffey Valley Park, Lucan on 10th Apri 2014l. The innovative remote control tracked vacuum unit was demonstrated to staff from Irish Water (www.water.ie), Farrans Construction (www.farrans.com) and the Domestic Meters Suppliers. This was the 1st field demonstration of the conceptual unit in Ireland and the team successfully delivered high powered vacuum excavation for 41 water meter installations in heavily congested service pits. The unit was widely welcomed by technical spectators and local residents for it’s speed, versatility, safety around
services and capacity to minimise disruption, run off and dirt from excavation works.
The team are currently planning to expand the trial in early May.

Pick up trailer mounted compact IVAC Unit

Tracker ‘Rover’ Unit, minimal set up time

Compact Unit in Operation

CÓRAS are the appointed specialist contractor for the provision of leakage detection services on the Domestic Meters Works & Services Contract for Farrans Construction throughout the Dublin County Region.

Managed by CÓRAS Field Engineer, Damien Tuffy BSc, and his team of technicians, the programme of works incorporates analysis of domestic consumption in newly installed public side water meters utilising the  IZAR mobile meter reading hardware for Automated Meter Reading and transmission to the IZAR@NET meter management system. CÓRAS have invested in specialist leakage detection vehicles fitted out with state of the art leakage survey and detection systems including the RD500 service tracer unit from Radiodetection, FAST Aqua M200 Geophones and LC-2500 water correlators. The two year works programme commenced in January 2014 with surveys commencing in the greater Fingal County Council area.

Leakage Detection Survey ongoing in Blanchardstown, February 2014