Our first
decade
BRM started at Stephen Kealey’s dinner table, with one founder and a simple idea: do the hard work in the ground properly, and clients will come back. Ten years later we are trusted on live substations, national fibre networks and water treatment works across the UK and Ireland. These are the moments that got us here.
November 2016
Stephen Kealey starts BRM
BRM began at home, around the family dinner table, where Stephen planned the business. He founded BRM Utility Services to carry out civil engineering and specialist maintenance for fibre and power networks, and the company was incorporated on 9 November. For its first years BRM was run from home, and from the start the work was in the ground: trenching, ducting and reinstatement, done properly and left tidy.
2017
Our first big power cable job
Within a year of starting, our crews were laying a 33kV twin-circuit cable route in Woking. It was the job that proved a young Northern Irish contractor could deliver high-voltage cable work in the south of England, and it set the pattern for the decade: our own people, our own plant, finished to the client’s standard
2018
Up to 132kV
At Beaulieu Park in Chelmsford we installed a 132kV twin-circuit cable route, taking our cable work up to transmission voltage. The same year BRM Plant Hire & Sales was incorporated, the start of the owned fleet our crews rely on today.
4 JUNE 2020
BRM Group Ltd is incorporated
That same year, Invest Northern Ireland began supporting our growth, helping our team develop the management and financial skills to take on larger, longer contracts.
2016 - 2026
A decade in numbers
212
people directly employed, alongside around 150 subcontract colleagues
10
yards and offices across the UK and Ireland
7
framework and term contract appointments with national clients
0
RIDDOR-reportable injuries every year from 2019 to 2025, across 364,849 hours worked in 2025 alone