Lidan brings together two traditions that rarely meet: hand joinery of the old school, and manufacturing discipline of the new one.
Lidan was founded by Dan O'Brien and Liam Casey with a straightforward conviction: that Ireland could build better, faster and cleaner by moving construction into the factory — and that the west of Ireland was exactly the place to do it.
The company began with NZEB-standard garden offices and studios, proving that even the smallest buildings could achieve A-rated performance and passive-level airtightness. The same methods now deliver schools, community centres, public amenity buildings and rapid-build housing for public bodies across the country.
Along the way Lidan has been backed by the Local Enterprise Office Roscommon, the Western Development Commission and Enterprise Ireland — most recently under the Agile Innovation Fund, supporting R&D into multi-storey, wide-span buildings 100% completed in the factory.
Thirty years in corporate strategy, including fourteen as a management consultant with Accenture working with clients such as Microsoft and Vodafone. Dan oversees project delivery across the public and private sectors and drives the company's sustainability commitments — and its founding aim of creating skilled, lasting jobs in the west of Ireland.
More than twenty-five years of joinery behind him, from high-end commercial carpentry to antique restoration. Liam leads design and manufacturing — the reason a Lidan building's door casings get the same attention as its airtightness membrane. His standards set the factory's.
"Lidan are great ambassadors for County Roscommon, and are an inspiration."Eugene Cummins — Chief Executive, Roscommon County Council, at the National Enterprise Awards
We work from your brief — or your architect's — through site-specific design, 3D modelling and energy analysis, so what is priced is what performs.
Structural engineering, fire strategy, Part L, NZEB and BER requirements are resolved before manufacture begins. Public procurement documentation comes as standard, not as a surprise.
Modules are framed, insulated, glazed, wired, plumbed and finished in our Roscommon factory — 92% of the build, quality-checked indoors at every stage.
Buildings arrive by road and are craned into position — to roof level in as little as a day. Ground screws often remove the need for concrete foundations entirely.
Airtightness testing, systems commissioning and certification complete the job. Occupants move into a finished building, not a snag list.
Our manufacturing facility on Racecourse Road is where every Lidan building begins — and where most of it ends, too, leaving the factory as finished volumetric units ready for the road.
The site includes our showroom, where completed buildings can be walked through before a project begins. Visits are by appointment.
Winner — Future Focus Award, National Enterprise Awards 2021.