What Oldcastle does

Oldcastle is the infrastructure products brand of CRH plc (NYSE: CRH), a global building materials company headquartered and operating across North America. Oldcastle Infrastructure manufactures and supplies precast concrete products, water management systems, and related infrastructure solutions for municipal, utility, and civil construction customers. The business serves a customer base that includes city water utilities (e.g., the City of Hailey, Idaho) and broader public-sector infrastructure projects.

The company's product portfolio extends beyond traditional precast concrete into AI-enabled smart water management. CivilSense™ is Oldcastle Infrastructure's proprietary smart water management platform, which applies anomaly detection techniques to sensor and operational data to identify hidden leaks and inefficiencies in municipal water distribution networks. The platform has been deployed at multiple U.S. municipal utilities, with the Hailey, Idaho deployment identifying 22 hidden leaks shortly after rollout, and the company has begun extending deployments to additional markets such as Texas.

Oldcastle's business model combines product sales of physical infrastructure (precast concrete, water management components) with the emerging recurring-style deployments of the CivilSense™ smart water platform for municipal customers. As a brand within CRH plc, the Oldcastle operations benefit from the parent's North American manufacturing scale, raw-materials sourcing, and distribution network. CRH plc has also signaled continued infrastructure-focused expansion through its announced $8.5 billion acquisition of Arcosa, Inc. (announced June 2026), which could broaden the addressable product portfolio accessible to Oldcastle. Standalone financial disclosures for the Oldcastle brand are not reported by CRH.

Name

Oldcastle

Legal name

Oldcastle (operating as brand of CRH plc)

Website

https://crhamericas.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1970

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Oldcastle is the infrastructure products brand of CRH plc, manufacturing precast concrete, water management systems, and the AI-powered CivilSense™ smart water platform for municipal and infrastructure customers across North America.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Building Materials

NAICS

Cement and Concrete Product Manufacturing (3273), Concrete Pipe, Brick, and Block Manufacturing (32733)

SIC

Concrete Products, Except Block & Brick (3272)

akta.pro primary industry

Concrete Pipe, Box Culverts & Drainage Structures (IMADAAAD)

Keywords

• Building materials
• Infrastructure products
• Precast concrete
• Water management
• Smart water technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Atlanta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Core offering

Oldcastle is a building materials brand under CRH plc that provides infrastructure products including precast concrete, water management solutions, and smart water technologies such as CivilSense™. The company supplies essential construction materials and infrastructure solutions to construction projects and municipalities across North America, with a focus on aggregates, cementitious products, and water infrastructure systems.

Product overview

Oldcastle operates as a building materials sub-brand under CRH (the leading provider of building materials). Oldcastle's portfolio includes Oldcastle Infrastructure, which provides precast concrete and smart water management solutions. The key product offering is CivilSense, an AI-powered leak detection and smart water management system. Together with other CRH brands like Texas Materials, Ash Grove, Tarmac, and Staker Parson, Oldcastle contributes to CRH's comprehensive offerings across aggregates, cementitious, roads, and water infrastructure sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Oldcastle Infrastructure: CRH company specializing in infrastructure products including precast concrete, water management solutions, and smart water technologies such as CivilSense™ leak detection systems
• CivilSense

Products and services

• CivilSense™ Smart Water Management Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• Detected 22 hidden water leaks saving 59 million gallons of clean water annually in City of Hailey, Idaho

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Watts Water Technologies: Global manufacturer of water products including plumbing, flow control, and water-quality solutions for residential, commercial, and institutional markets. Comparable to Oldcastle Infrastructure on water products but more focused on plumbing/control than digital analytics.
• Vulcan Materials: Largest US producer of construction aggregates and a major concrete/building-materials player. Comparable to Oldcastle/CRH on aggregates and concrete for infrastructure but does not focus on smart-water technology.
• Veolia: Global environmental services and water-management company operating water and wastewater infrastructure for municipalities. Comparable to Oldcastle on the municipal water-infrastructure end-market though primarily a services operator rather than a products/analytics vendor.
• Martin Marietta Materials: Major US supplier of aggregates and heavy building materials for infrastructure and commercial construction. Comparable to Oldcastle's broader building-materials footprint but without a smart-water software offering.

Direct peers

• Advanced Drainage Systems: Leading US provider of stormwater and water-management infrastructure products, including corrugated pipe and drainage structures. Comparable to Oldcastle Infrastructure on the physical infrastructure side of municipal water and stormwater projects.
• Quikrete Holdings: Large North American producer of concrete, cement, and related building-materials products. Comparable to Oldcastle's broader building-materials and concrete product portfolio serving construction and infrastructure.
• Itron: Provider of smart meters and utility analytics platforms, including water leak detection and AMI networks. Directly comparable to CivilSense™ on smart water analytics and to Oldcastle Infrastructure on serving municipal utility customers.
• Mueller Water Products: Leading manufacturer of water infrastructure products including smart meters, leak detection, and hydrant/valve solutions serving US municipalities. Directly comparable to Oldcastle Infrastructure on municipal water-infrastructure products and to CivilSense™ on leak-detection analytics.
• Xylem: Global water technology company offering smart metering, network analytics, and leak-detection software for utilities. Closest functional peer to CivilSense™ and a broader portfolio competitor to Oldcastle Infrastructure across water and wastewater.
• Badger Meter: US manufacturer of flow measurement and smart water-metering solutions used by municipalities. Comparable to CivilSense™ on smart metering/analytics and serves the same municipal water-customer segment as Oldcastle Infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crh
• Xx.com/OldcastleInc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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