Ирландская компания Eastgate Engineering планирует утроить выручку до 150 млн евро к 2030 году

Eastgate Engineering, a Waterford-based engineering and construction business, intends to almost treble its annual revenue to €150 million by 2030. With offices in Waterford City, England, and Scotland, Eastgate Engineering was founded by David Brennan in 2015. The business has 500 staff and had revenue of €57.9 million in the year ending March 2026. “Eastgate Engineering delivers end-to-end services from engineering and construction through to commissioning, start-up and long-term maintenance," Brennan told the Business Post. “We operate in safety-critical and highly technical environments, supporting clients across offshore wind, power and renewables, oil, gas and chemicals, industrial and manufacturing, data centres and nuclear and defence sectors.” Brennan developed an interest in starting his own business in the sector while he was still an apprentice electrician. “I knew almost immediately that what interested me wasn't only how we built the project, it was how the company was paid for it, how it was priced, how the project is managed and how this whole process functions collectively in a business,” he said. “I set about learning every level of it. That was about fifteen years of working all over the world and deliberately putting myself in rooms where I was the least experienced person present, because that's where you learn what the business actually looks like.” The original plan for the business was to start in 2007, but it was put on hold due to unfavourable global economic conditions. Brennan kicked off properly in 2015 and it was international expansion that drove growth. “It was 2016 before we moved the operational base to Teesside, which was the defining decision of the company's history. Teesside gave us access to a workforce with genuine industrial heritage and it put us on the doorstep of the UK's biggest energy and chemical cluster,” Brennan said. “Then it accelerated. Three years ago we were 170 people and €22.4 million in revenue. Today we're over 500 people and €57.9 million.” Brennan has been joined in the business by his daughter, Katie, who works on the marketing side and has engaged extensively with Enterprise Ireland to help develop the company’s strategic roadmap. “Enterprise Ireland gave us the frameworks, the structure and, just as importantly, somebody experienced asking us awkward questions. That’s the kind of help you can’t buy in,” she said. “Enterprise Ireland opens doors that would take a company our size years to open by itself, providing introductions, market intelligence and a seat at tables where the decisions about Ireland's offshore wind supply chain are actually being made.” While the business aims to reach €150 million in annual revenue by 2030, Eastgate Engineering is already aiming beyond that. “Longer term, and I'm comfortable saying this out loud, I believe Eastgate can be a €500 million business within the next 10 years, and become one of Europe's leading electrical, instrumentation and high voltage services companies,” David Brennan said. This Making it Work article was produced in partnership with Enterprise Ireland.