Awards & Accreditations

Oakleaf received an Annual Civic Award from the local Mid-Ulster council for Contribution to Industry and recognition for our outstanding Health & Safety record.

Without doubt the finest piece of drywall I have had the pleasure to judge in 20 years! I have never seen a contract that 200 men have worked on that is such a high standard of work throughout. A 500 metre corridor and 19 aircraft stand, all pure precision…. So many excellent features, everything was special and could not fault a thing! Outstanding

Ian Pollitt of the FPDC judging panel

Gyproc Ireland, supplier of plaster and plasterboard to the Irish construction industry, awarded Oakleaf, Prestigious Accolade at The 8th Saint-Gobain Gypsum International Trophy ceremony held in the National Maritime Museum, London, on Friday June 8th, 2010. Gyproc’s entrant in the Plasterboard category, Terminal 2, Dublin Airport, was named overall category winner. Michael Scullion from Oakleaf received the award from Claude-Alain Tardy, Gypsum Activity President at a gala ceremony in London.

Taking place every two years since its creation in 1998, each trophy in the 6 categories of the international competition aims to recognise and reward the craftsmanship of drywall and plastering contractors, while promoting excellence and innovation in the use of sustainable, lightweight plasterboard systems and plasters.

The range of projects and particularly the winners reflect how high performance plasterboard systems and plasters, combined with skilled workmanship, can provide solutions for high quality, safe, comfortable, modular and sustainable interiors across a variety of applications.

We are delighted that Ireland has been triumphant in an awards event of this scale with a wide-range of outstanding projects entered. It takes an independent jury composed of international panel of Gypsum industry experts to scrutinise the overall performance of the systems and solutions implemented during the course of each project submitted. Gypsum is proud to sponsor the prestigious International Trophy to promote world class skills in drywall technology and plastering and we wish Oakleaf continued success and thank them for their contribution to innovation in this industry.

Brian Dolan, Gyproc Managing Director

Dublin Terminal 2 was Ireland’s single largest construction site with Oakleaf having worked approximately half a million man hours without a reportable accident to Health and Safety Agency. Based on our safety performance, Oakleaf where awarded Safety Contractor of the Month for May 2010 (Only the second subcontractor on the project to achieve this award).

In addition to complying with all statutory and project training requirements (E.g. manual handling, COT’s, Abrasive Wheels and First Aid etc.), additional initiatives were also undertaken. These included ‘Incident and Injury Free Training’ (Laing O’ Rourke) and ‘Behavioural Safety Training’ (DAA). These programs were aimed at enhancing further the safety culture within the company which is a cornerstone of the Oakleaf’s safety management system.