Daly's Constructions

What Daly's Constructions does

Daly's Constructions (Australia) Pty Ltd is a family-owned specialist civil and electrical design-and-construct contractor founded in 1974 and headquartered in Laverton/Melbourne, with a regional office in Brisbane and a wholly-owned subsidiary, Daly's Traffic Pty Ltd, providing in-house traffic management. The company focuses on underground electrical cable systems for energy infrastructure — delivering route and thermal/electrical/hydraulic design, civil works, cable installation, XLPE and oil-filled jointing and terminating, trenching, directional drilling, vacuum excavation, substation civil works, and testing and commissioning at voltages up to 400kV. Its technology stack centres on custom-designed and fabricated equipment — a 45-tonne motorised drum stand (spindle driven), 40-tonne motorised drum stand (flange driven), and 30-tonne motorised cable drum float — built specifically for hauling and laying large power cables in CBD, tunnel and bridge environments.

The company sells turnkey, project-based design-and-construct contracts to electricity transmission and distribution network owners and operators across Australia and New Zealand. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; revenue is earned per project through tenders, with marquee engagements including the Basslink 400kV interconnector repair, Transpower (NZ) NAaN Sections 1 & 2 across the Auckland Harbour Bridge, and recurring program-of-work relationships with AusNet, Powercor, CitiPower, Jemena, Energy Queensland, Energex, SA Power Networks, Western Power, Downer, John Holland, CPB Contractors and Zinfra among others. Customers are exclusively enterprise-scale utility network owners, EPC contractors, and cable manufacturers — there is no SMB or retail channel.

The business is led by the Daly family (Director Mark Daly since 1990, Director/Construction Manager Mal Daly since 1993), with a Project Management team carrying over 40 years of shared experience and a professional management layer being layered in (Ian McNee appointed General Manager in 2025). The firm is privately held, Australian-domiciled, with no external parent, venture backing, or institutional investment disclosed, and operates with a small team (firmographic band 11–50) across two state offices and a traffic-management subsidiary.

Name

Daly's Constructions

Legal name

Daly's Constructions (Australia) Pty Ltd

Website

https://dalysconstructions.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Daly's Constructions is a family-owned Australian specialist contractor (founded 1974) that designs and builds underground electrical transmission and distribution cable systems up to 400kV for utility network owners and major EPC contractors across Australia and New Zealand.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electrical Infrastructure Construction Services

NAICS

Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction (237130), Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction (23713), Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (237), Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors (23821)

SIC

Heavy Construction Other Than Bldg Const - Contractors (1600), Water, Sewer, Pipeline, Comm & Power Line Construction (1623), Electrical Work (1731)

akta.pro primary industry

Cable Installation & Construction Services (trenching, duct banks, HDD, pulling, cable laying) (EUADADAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Transmission Line Construction (Overhead & Underground) (IMAFAHAA), Engineering design services (line design, substation design, civil/structural) (EUADAKAG), Transmission Line/Stringing & Live-Line Construction Services (EUAEABAJ)

Keywords

• Underground cable installation
• Electrical infrastructure construction
• Transmission cable jointing
• Civil electrical contracting
• Substation civil works

Headquarters

HQ city

Laverton

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Project-Based Construction Services: The company generates revenue through design and construct contracts, civil works, cable installation, jointing and terminating services for underground electrical transmission projects. Revenue is project-based and derived from contracted work with utility companies and network owners.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Daly's Constructions provides turnkey civil and electrical design and construction services for underground power transmission and distribution networks. Its core work covers cable system design (up to 400kV), civil works, cable installation, jointing/terminating, testing and commissioning for utility network owners. The company also delivers trenching, directional drilling, vacuum excavation, substation civil works and traffic management through its subsidiary Daly's Traffic Pty Ltd.

Product overview

Daly's Constructions offers a unified suite of specialist civil and electrical construction services for the energy infrastructure industry. The company provides an integrated, end-to-end service model covering cable system design, procurement, installation, jointing, testing, and commissioning. Services include trench excavation, directional drilling, reinforced concrete construction, substation civil works, railway work, vacuum excavation, and public lighting. A subsidiary, Daly's Traffic, provides traffic management planning. All services are delivered by in-house teams of fulltime field staff trained in industry-specific skills, and the company has custom-designed and built equipment including 45-tonne and 40-tonne motorised drum stands and 30-tonne cable drum floats.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers23 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Daly's Traffic Pty LtdcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerRelated entity providing traffic management services. Daly's Traffic Pty Ltd provides detailed traffic management plans as part of Daly's Constructions' turnkey service offering for cable installation projects, ensuring compliance with road and traffic requirements during construction activities.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Rokon: Australian specialist civil and electrical contractor for utilities and infrastructure. Provides cable installation, jointing and civils to network owners — closely matching Daly's core service line and customer profile.
• BMD: Australian infrastructure and urban development contractor with significant capabilities in utilities, energy and transport civils. Overlaps with Daly's on underground cable installation, trenching and conduit works for distribution network clients.
• Zinfra: Australian utility infrastructure services contractor delivering electrical and civil construction for transmission and distribution networks. Highly comparable as an end-to-end service provider to electricity network owners, directly overlapping Daly's customer base and scope of work.
• MACA: Australian infrastructure services group serving mining, utilities and energy sectors with civil and electrical construction capabilities. Comparable on trenching, conduit and cable installation scope, with similar utility- and industrial-customer orientation.
• Enerven: Australian renewable energy and network services provider delivering design, construction and maintenance for substations, transmission and distribution. Overlaps directly with Daly's transmission/distribution cable and substation civil works.
• Nexa: Australian infrastructure services company serving utilities and the energy sector. Comparable on electrical and civil construction for network owners, including cable installation and associated civil works.

Broad incumbents

• Service Stream: ASX-listed infrastructure services provider to utilities, telecommunications and transport sectors across Australia. Comparable on network installation and maintenance for utility customers, though broader in scope and listed.
• CPB Contractors: Tier 1 Australian infrastructure contractor (CIMIC Group) delivering large civil and energy projects including transmission. Competes for the same major tender processes but as a much broader, publicly listed prime contractor.
• Downer EDI: Large Australian-listed infrastructure services group with extensive utilities, transport and energy operations. Acts as both client/partner and competitor to Daly's on transmission and distribution projects, but operates across many adjacencies beyond underground cable installation.
• John Holland: Major Australian infrastructure and construction contractor (CIMIC Group). Competitively overlaps on transmission/distribution packages and rail electrification civil works, but operates at far greater scale and across many non-utility segments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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