David Whelan Enterprises

What David Whelan Enterprises does

David Whelan Enterprises (DWE) is a privately held, founder-owned land and engineering surveying firm established in 2011 and headquartered at Kildare Innovation Campus in Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland. The firm delivers professional surveying services to construction, engineering, and mapping clients across Ireland and the United Kingdom, with a service portfolio organized around five core lines: Setting Out, Surveying, Monitoring, 3D Laser Scanning, and Aerial Photography/Drone Mapping. Named clients include established Irish construction companies Roadstone, Dunwoody, and Dobson, indicating a relationship-based go-to-market targeting enterprise construction buyers.

The firm operates with a small team of approximately 6 surveyors and setting-out engineers, deploying conventional surveying instrumentation — total stations, GPS, levels, 3D laser scanners, and drones — to capture spatial data for topographical surveys, site setting out, as-constructed surveys, monitoring schemes, and high-resolution mapping. The technology stack is industry-standard rather than proprietary; competitive differentiation is positioned around personnel quality, on-time delivery, and the firm's 13-year track record rather than bespoke technology or software platforms.

The business model is straightforward project-based professional services. DWE generates revenue from professional fees for surveying, mapping, and survey engineering engagements, with pricing quoted per project rather than disclosed publicly. Go-to-market is sales-led and direct, with contact via phone and email supplemented by a website, Facebook, and LinkedIn presence. The company is independently owned by founder David Whelan, with no external investment, institutional backing, or public-market presence indicated. No pricing, revenue, headcount-growth, or pipeline data is publicly disclosed, limiting external visibility into commercial momentum.

Name

David Whelan Enterprises

Legal name

David Whelan Enterprises

Website

https://davidwhelanenterprises.ie

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

David Whelan Enterprises is an Irish land and engineering surveying firm founded in 2011, serving construction and engineering clients across Ireland and the UK with setting out, surveying, monitoring, laser scanning, and aerial photography services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Leixlip

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Professional Surveying Services: Professional fees for surveying, mapping, and survey engineering services to construction, engineering and mapping markets. Includes setting out, topographical surveys, as-constructed surveys, monitoring, laser scanning, and aerial photography services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

David Whelan Enterprises provides professional land and engineering surveying services to construction, civil engineering, and infrastructure clients across Ireland and the UK. The firm's core work covers setting out of engineering works, topographical and as-constructed surveys, structural monitoring, 3D laser scanning, and aerial photography of sites. These services are delivered using Trimble total stations, GPS, digital levels, 3D laser scanners, and drone-based cameras, and are aimed at contractors, builders, and engineers who need accurate on-site measurement and spatial data.

Product overview

David Whelan Enterprises is a land and engineering surveying firm offering a unified suite of professional services. The core portfolio includes Setting Out, Surveying, Monitoring, 3D Laser Scanning, and Aerial Photography services. These services are delivered by a team of surveyors and setting-out engineers, providing accurate, on-time surveys and site positioning for construction, engineering, and mapping projects across Ireland and the UK. The company operates from its founding in 2011 as a one-person operation to a thriving survey practice with a focus on setting out services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Setting Out

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Arcadis: Global design and consultancy firm with surveying, geospatial, and construction-support services — competes with DWE indirectly on larger infrastructure mandates in Ireland and the UK.
• WSP: Global engineering and professional services firm with a large surveying, geomatics, and infrastructure practice — a broader incumbent that competes for the same enterprise infrastructure and construction surveying mandates as DWE.
• AECOM: Global engineering consultancy with surveying, geospatial, and construction-support services embedded across a much wider portfolio — sets the competitive ceiling for end-to-end surveying contracts that DWE cannot bid on alone.
• AtkinsRéalis: Major international engineering and project-management firm with a surveying and geospatial capability serving UK and Irish infrastructure clients — a much larger incumbent overlapping in monitoring and engineering-surveying work.

Direct peers

• Getmapping: UK-based aerial surveying and mapping provider, with overlap to DWE in drone aerial photography and high-accuracy mapping services for construction and infrastructure clients.
• Murphy Surveys: Ireland-based land and engineering surveying firm offering setting out, topographical surveys, monitoring, and 3D laser scanning — overlapping almost exactly with DWE's service mix and competing for the same Irish construction clients.
• Severn Partnership: UK surveying firm offering land surveys, 3D laser scanning, monitoring, and utility surveying — closely aligned with DWE's offering and targeting similar construction and infrastructure clients.
• Survey Solutions: UK-based surveying company delivering measured building surveys, topographic surveys, setting out, and monitoring services — a direct competitor for DWE's UK-side engagements.
• Technics Group: UK surveying, engineering, and utility-mapping consultancy offering setting out, topographic surveys, monitoring, and geospatial services — comparable in scope and customer type to DWE.
• Plowman Craven: UK surveying and measurement consultancy offering topographic surveys, laser scanning, monitoring, and BIM/CIM support — directly comparable in service mix to DWE, with a similar client base in UK construction and infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/davidwhelansurveyor
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/david-whelan-enterprises

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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