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Denis O’Brien’s Actavo wins €5m contract to improve streets around Google’s Dublin HQ

The Barrow Street refurbishment project has been awarded to the engineering firm - formerly known as Siteserv - by Dublin City Council

Google, which acquired the Barrow Street building in 2011, has gradually expanded to much of the surrounding area

Denis O’Brien’s Actavo has been awarded the €5 million Dublin City Council contract to upgrade the areas around Google’s Barrow Street campus in the docklands.

The project involving significant work around Barrow Street’s junctions with Grand Canal Upper and Ringsend Road will commence in the coming weeks.

Prior to rebranding as Actavo in 2015, the company was known as Siteserv, which was at the centre of major controversy over recent years around how Denis O’Brien ...