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Shay Murtagh Precast

With four decades of experience, Shay Murtagh Precast has become one of the leading manufacturers of precast concrete products in the UK and Ireland. Core pillars of design, manufacture and transport, the company delivers a complete package to our clients.

Products include, pre-stressed and post-tensioned concrete storage tanks for water and waste water along with bridge beams, culverts, retaining walls and bespoke precast products to suit off site delivery to projects.

At our core is:

Bespoke concrete solutions from initial design to delivery to site.
Highly skilled team, including in-house design, manufacturing, logistics.
The most modern manufacturing facilities and software and accreditation.
Ongoing research and development for environmentally responsible manufacturing.

Value engineering and customer satisfaction drive the company to engage in continual development and ensure quality of product and service to each and every project.

Products include:

Concrete Storage Tanks (pre-stressed & post-tensioned)
Concrete Tunnel Segments
Concrete Box Culverts
Rainwater Harvesting System
Concrete Retaining Walls
Concrete Bridge Beams
Concrete Frame Buildings

Ballina Wastewater Treatment Plant (2024)

Upgrade of the existing treatment plant to increase treatment capacity

Boherbue Wastewater Treatment Plant (2024)

A flagship project for sustainable and carbon saving treatment processes setting a precedent for industry-wide innovation and best practices

Macclesfield WwTW (2024)

Construction of United Utilities first innovative MOB^TM treatment process, to improve the water quality in the River Bollin by December 2024

Perth (Bertha Park) WwTW (2024)

Design and construction of modern sewage treatment facility to meet future population growth

Sundon Water Treatment Facility (2024)

A novel water treatment plant constructed on the site of an upgraded reservoir to aid Affinity Water’s environmental sustainability commitments

Lee Road Water Treatment Plant (2023)

Lee Road Water Treatment Plant (WTP) provides approximately 70% of Cork City’s total treated water supply. Water is taken from the River Lee, treated and then pumped to reservoirs in the north-west of the city through a system of rising mains. Water is distributed to consumers throughout the city via a network of gravity distribution […]

Quin WwTP (2022)

Quin Wastewater Treatment Plant (WwTP) is a small works serving a rural village in County Clare in the west of Ireland. The plant has been operating with a capacity of approx. 650 population equivalent (PE) and is operated and controlled by Irish Water. It discharges into the River Rine which flows to the Shannon Estuary, […]

Hull WwTW - Project Update (2021)

Located in Saltend, Yorkshire Water’s Hull WwTW provides sewage treatment for a population equivalent of over 1 million people, covering an area from the west of Hull to Hedon in the east. This case study follows on from an initial paper in 2020 and details the progress of the new inlet works and the refurbishment […]

Morecambe WwTW Catchment Strategy: Part 3 (2020)

Operated by United Utilities, the Morecambe sewerage system collects at Schola Green Wastewater Pumping Station (WwPS) located in the west end of the town. From there, flows for treatment are pumped via a 6km long pipeline to Morecambe Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW), which is situated to the south, near to the village of Middleton. Both […]

Ardsbeg WTW (2020)

Ardsbeg Water Treatment Works (WTW) is located in a remote area in the north of Co. Donegal in Ireland and treats water from a lake source to serve local villages of Gortahork and Falcarragh as well as rural farms and dwellings. The WTW was originally built in the 1960s and was modified in 2003. However, […]

BRP - Raw Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2020)

The Birmingham Resilience Project (BRP) is designed to provide a backup source of raw water from the River Severn to the water treatment works that serves Birmingham. During planned or unplanned outages of the primary water source, the raw water system will abstract water from the River Severn between October and March and supply 117 […]

Hull WwTW (2020)

Hull WwTW located at Saltend, east of Hull, provides sewage treatment for a population equivalent of over 1 million people, covering an area from the west of Hull to Hedon in the east. The existing treatment works was built over 20 years ago and required some specific upgrading and refurbishment. The primary drivers for the […]

Anchorsholme Long Sea Outfall (2019)

Anchorsholme Park is located on the coast 4 miles north of Blackpool Tower. The long sea outfall (LSO) project is the third of three phases contributing to improving bathing waters on the Fylde Coast. The objective of the overall scheme is to complete the AMP6 obligations on the Fylde Coast of the ‘moving towards three […]

Jordans Dam and Wharncliffe Fish Passes (2019)

Yorkshire Water, in partnership with the Environment Agency as part of a much wider programme of work to comply with the National Environment Programme, will see a total of £10m invested between 2015-2020. Such investment will see the creation of 14 new fish passes across the Yorkshire region. The primary driver is compliance with the […]

Killingworth & Longbenton Water Management Ph 3 (2019)

Since 2010 the Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) for the Tyneside Drainage Catchment have developed and implemented an area-based prioritisation process to identify and investigate those drainage areas at greatest risk of performance failure. The Killingworth, Longbenton and Forest Hall area was one of those areas identified, something supported by the published 2010 Strategic Flood Risk […]

Chorley WwTW (2018)

The town of Chorley, in Lancashire, is mainly residential and much of the surrounding land is dedicated to agriculture and heritage buildings. Chorley Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) is located close to a small number of residential houses with a shared access road. C2V+, a joint venture between CH2M (now Jacobs) and VolkerStevin, was awarded a […]

Deephams STW - A630 Major Upgrade (2018)

Thames Water’s Deephams Sewage Treatment Works (STW) is located in Edmonton, North London and treats a 989,000 population. Three drainage catchment areas of Lea Valley, High Barnet and Tottenham flow to the works, the ninth largest plant in the UK. The original effluent treatment process was built between 1956-1966 and had been updated at various […]

Hesketh Bank WwTW (2017)

Hesketh Bank Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) serves a population of approximately 5,800. The catchment of this Lancashire village is mainly residential and much of the surrounding land is dedicated to agriculture. The treatment works is on the edge of the village and is situated close to the River Douglas, near its confluence with the Ribble […]

SAL 172 Stormwater Storage: Part 2 (2016)

The SAL 0172 project formed part of a cluster of schemes in the Manchester area, as part of United Utilities £3.6 billion AMP5 investment programme across the North West. The project was completed by Galliford Try-Costain-Atkins Joint Venture, (GCA JV), as main contractor to United Utilities. Originally covered in the UK Water Projects 2014-2015 edition, […]

Fleetwood WwTW Stormwater Storage (2015)

In order to help reduce the spill frequency of untreated stormwater on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire, a new storage tank was required to provide an additional storage capacity of 15,000m3. The new tank was to be located at the existing Fleetwood WwTW and was completed within AMP5, delivered on programme and within budget. This […]

Harrowside Long Sea Outfall (2015)

Harrowside Outfall is the first element of the Blackpool South Strategy to further improve the bathing water quality along the Fylde Coast which involves increasing the capacity of the existing sewer network, surface water and maintenance works to the Lennox Gate Pumping Station. The existing Harrowside outfall, built in 1938, has reached the end of […]