20 YEARS OF RIVERSIDE MECHANICAL LTD
MANAGING DIRECTOR TONY PTOHOPOULOS CHATS TO IRELAND’S PLUMBING & HEATING MAGAZINE ABOUT HIS BACKGROUND AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE BUSINESS SINCE HE JOINED…
Tony Ptohopoulos, Managing Director, Riverside Mechanical.
‘Riverside Mechanical is personable, reliable and flexible’ Tell us about your background before joining Riverside Mechanical
proud of that project, which won several awards. Then we got the National Forensic Mental Health Service Hospital in Portrane, a €12m project, and it just kept going from there. We have a good reputation and have restructured the business over the last six or seven years. Our turnover is now around around €17m to €18m a year, we have a good, growing business and our staff has doubled. Tell us about Riverside Mechanical’s unique selling points Riverside Mechanical is personable, reliable and flexible. We care about our people and clients first and that’s not rhetoric; we have built personal friendships with our clients.
I’ve been in the industry since I was 16, and left school in England to become a mechanical trainee. I did four years at technical college, while working part time, and then completed a degree in Building Services Engineering when I was 23. I qualified with an MBA in 2003 and became director of a mechanical contracting business at the age of 29. I’ve been in the industry now for 36 years and moved to the Middle East in 2008, where I met and married my wife before relocating back to Dublin with our son. When did you join Riverside Mechanical? I was headhunted from the Middle East in 2015 to run major projects for Riverside Mechanical. How has the company developed and grown over your tenure? The company turnover was around €7m a year, and then we were employed to project manage the mechanical design and build of Sport Ireland’s National Indoor Arena in Blanchardstown, a €8m project alone. We are very
Do you have any plans to develop the business further?
Yes, under my stewardship, we are making inroads with an exciting new direction to increase the business to a €20m-plus operation. We are exploring new opportunities, including data centres and life sciences, and are optimistic about a positive future with many exciting new projects for Riverside Mechanical.
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