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The company provides innovative and effective engineering solutions
SRS are leading steel fabricators and suppliers of roofing and cladding systems
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Steel & Roofing Systems Ltd is a leading steel fabricator and supplier of roofing and cladding systems based in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. Managing director Michael Whelan explains more.
From humble beginnings in 1988, Steel & Roofing Systems Ltd (SRS) has become a household name in the Irish structural steelwork and cladding supply sector. The company specialises in design fabrication and erection of all types of structural steelwork and farm buildings. Committed to providing innovative and effective engineering solutions, SRS has the capacity to produce up to 250 tonnes of structural steelwork per week, which makes it one of the largest steel fabricators in the market. The overall quality of SRS’s products and service is widely acknowledged and respected, and is backed by over 40 years’ experience in the industry. The company constantly strives to exceed client
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expectations on quality, service and cost. Michael Whelan set up Steel & Roofing Systems after spending 13 years working for Duggan Steel in Kilkenny. He recalls: “When Duggan’s stopped fabricating steel at that time, I saw an opening in the market and decided to go for it. Our aim was to fabricate, supply and erect structural steelwork, roofing and cladding to an everincreasing market.” The Paulstown native, whose wife Annette is also a director in the company, started out with six staff. At the height of the construction boom, the figure had shot up to 120. When the recession hit, however, he was forced to scale back and now employs 50. SRS offers a wide variety of services to its clients, including supply and fabrication of structural steelwork, roof and wall cladding, composite metal decking, shear stud welding, steel treatments and design and drawing. The company has achieved the highest level of CE Marking: FPC EXC4 BS EN 1090-1 (Execution Class 4). SRS’s highly-trained workforce
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can fabricate and erect structural steelwork for any purpose, from simple beam and column structures to complex truss configurations. The Co. Kilkenny firm supplies and fits all types of cladding, including composite cladding systems, architectural cladding systems (incorporating integrated windows and curtain walling) and single ply EPDM roofing membrane. It goes without saying that all projects undertaken are completed to the highest standard and specification, and are fully insured. The fact that SRS is one of the few contractors that can carry out the structural steelwork fabrication and erection, as well as the roofing and cladding, ensures tight quality control and no miscommunication issues between several different parties. All of SRS’s design and detailing is carried out by fully qualified draughtsmen using 3D modelling softeware – Stru-Cad and Tekla. These software packages are tailor-made for modelling structural steel and for production of fabrication drawings and any other necessary information. A full 3D