Capability statement
Utility civils, from excavation to reinstatement
Issued October 2026
Marble Utilities Limited is an owner-managed civils subcontractor based in Dublin. We work for main contractors and utility contractors on electricity, telecoms, data-centre, public lighting and water projects: trenching and duct formations for LV and MV cable routes, joint bays and chambers, sub-duct installation, column bases, and the reinstatement of footpaths and roads. Every location is recorded with photographs and measurements.
Services
- Power cable trenching and ducting. Open-cut trenching, duct formations, joint bays, chambers, cable protection and reinstatement for LV and MV cable routes.
- Fibre and telecoms civils. Sub-duct installation in existing ducts, blockage clearance, new duct and chambers, fibre cable installation and reinstatement for fibre networks and data-centre connections.
- Public lighting civils. Breakout, column bases, column removal and installation, ducting, junction-box chambers and reinstatement for lighting upgrades.
- Concrete and reinstatement. Breakout and reinstatement of footpaths, kerbs, paving and driveways after utility works, measured and photographed.
Experience
- Fibre network civils for SIRO and National Broadband Ireland. Customer: entegro and gaeltec utilities. Works delivered 2024 to 2026.
- Public lighting civils across Dublin City. Customer: al read electrical and klm utilities. In progress.
- Concrete reinstatement after water-network works. Customer: gmc utilities. Ongoing.
Safety and quality practice
- Activity-specific risk assessments and method statements, reviewed by the main contractor and briefed to the crew before work starts
- Route walk with the road authority and main contractor to agree dig lines and reinstatement extents
- Service drawings checked and dig lines scanned with a cable locator and signal generator; services near the dig exposed by hand or vacuum excavation
- Temporary traffic management to Chapter 8 for every job, with a named competent person
- Daily pre-use plant checks, weekly competent-person inspections and external thorough examination of lifting equipment
- Compaction checked with a Clegg impact tester; reinstatements measured and photographed; defects recorded and closed out
Records and handover
- One record per location: existing condition and damage, excavation depth, backfill and compaction, finished surface
- Breakout and reinstatement measured by surface type; duct lengths by surface type
- Records checked before issue and handed over with our valuations
Scope boundaries
Cable jointing, termination and energisation, ESB Networks transfers, cable installation at 38kV and above, fibre splicing and testing, and route or column design are carried out by others. Directional drilling and moling are carried out by specialist partners that we manage. Lorry-mounted cranes and vacuum excavators are brought in when a job needs them.
Available for review
Safety statement, activity method statements, crew training certificates and plant examination reports, on request during pre-qualification and before work starts.