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Electronic Security & Life Safety Systems. Delivered Across Ireland.
Evolution is an employee-owned security systems integrator serving Ireland from offices in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. PSA licensed. ISIA Qualsec Platinum accredited. Trusted by pharmaceutical manufacturers, data centres, and financial institutions across the island.
What Is Evolution?
Evolution is an employee-owned electronic security and life safety systems integrator headquartered in the UK, with offices across Europe and the United States. Our Ireland head office is based in Dublin, with additional offices in Cork and Belfast, and delivers security design, installation, commissioning, and managed services for organisations across Ireland.
We are not a product vendor. We are an independent integrator, which means we design systems around your requirements, drawing on our technology partners rather than pushing a single manufacturer’s kit. Every project is engineered to solve a specific problem, not to shift a specific product.
30 Years in the Security Business
300+ Employees Owners Across 10 Offices
Operations in the UK, Ireland, Europe and USA
Why Evolution Security in Ireland?
The Irish security market has no shortage of large providers, offering broad security services including guarding, facilities management, telecoms alongside their technology divisions. For these companies, electronic security is one line item in a much longer service catalogue.
Evolution is different. Electronic security and life safety is what we do. Our Ireland team brings together engineers and project managers who have spent careers in this sector, people who understand the specific requirements of pharmaceutical manufacturing environments, the demands of tiered data centre operations, and the compliance obligations that come with protecting financial institutions in a regulated market.
We combine that specialist depth with the international reach of a group that protects global data centres, and critical pharmaceutical infrastructure across multiple countries. When you work with Evolution Ireland, you are not working with a local franchise of a corporate brand. You are working with a team of employee-owners who have a genuine stake in the quality of every project they deliver.
“Because our business is owned by the people who work in it, we think differently about the long term. We are not optimising for a quarterly number. We are building relationships that last.”
Meet the Ireland Team
Mark Corrigan — Joint Group Managing Director, Evolution
As Joint Group Managing Director of Evolution, Mark Corrigan provides strategic leadership across the group’s ten international operations, with direct responsibility for Ireland’s continued growth.
With over 20 years in the electronic security and life safety industry, Mark has been central to Evolution’s development from a UK-based integrator into an international business operating across Europe and the United States and to the employee ownership structure that underpins how the group operates today.
Mark is closely involved in Evolution Ireland’s strategic direction and major client relationships, bringing international perspective to a team with deep local market knowledge. His approach to client engagement reflects the values of the wider group: honest advice, long-term thinking, and a genuine stake in delivering what was promised.
Mark Corrigan | Joint Group Managing Director | Evolution.
“Evolution’s approach in Ireland is built on one principle: do what you say you will do, to the standard you promised, every time. In a market where clients have long memories and reputations are everything, that consistency is what sets us apart.”
What We Do
Sectors We Serve in Ireland
Ireland presents a distinctive combination of sectors. It is Europe’s largest net exporter of pharmaceuticals. It hosts hyperscale data centres for some of the world’s largest technology companies. Dublin is a major European financial centre. Each of these sectors demands a level of security expertise that goes beyond generic installation capability, and each is an area where Evolution has demonstrated, proven experience.
Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
Ireland is home to 9 of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies, with major manufacturing operations in Cork, Dublin, and across the midlands. For these facilities, security is a compliance requirement, embedded in FDA, DEA, GMP, and HPRA frameworks.
Evolution’s experience in pharmaceutical security spans clean room access control, controlled substance tracking, environmental monitoring, intruder detection in process areas, and CCTV systems built to audit trail requirements. Our embedded engineer model has been deployed across a 23-site EMEA pharmaceutical programme, delivering over 80 successful project completions and scaling from initial €50k engagements to $1m+ deployments.
“Evolution’s understanding of our operational environment – the compliance requirements, the multi-site complexity, the need for an engineer who is genuinely part of our team has been the difference between a supplier relationship and a genuine partnership.” Evolution Embedded Engineer. Evolution has delivered security infrastructure across a global pharmaceutical manufacturer’s 23-site EMEA estate, including a $1m+ access control programme at their HQ, with embedded Evolution engineers operating within the client’s own operations.”
Data Centres & ICT Manufacturing
Ireland is a critical node in Europe’s digital infrastructure. Hyperscale data centres have significant Irish footprints and the country’s data centre capacity continues to grow. Protecting these facilities requires security architecture that operates at a level of sophistication most integrators cannot reach.
Evolution’s data centre experience includes Tier III and Tier IV environments, rack-level access control, multi-factor authentication integration, cyber-physical convergence design, 24/7 remote monitoring with SLA-backed response, and the technical credibility to engage at architectural design stage. Our ISO 27001 certification provides an independently verified baseline for information security governance.
Financial Services
Dublin hosts the European headquarters and operations of numerous global banks, insurers, asset managers, and fintech companies. Financial services organisations face regulatory frameworks including the Central Bank of Ireland’s requirements, DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act), and sector-specific standards around access governance, audit trails, and business continuity.
Evolution brings a regulatory-literate approach to financial services security systems, designed not just to protect assets but to produce the documentation, audit trails, and access governance records that compliance teams need.
Commercial Real Estate
Dublin’s commercial property market has evolved rapidly, with smart building technology, mobile credential access, and integrated visitor management becoming standard expectations for Grade A office space. Workplace platforms – for which Evolution is a certified integration partner – enable workplace apps, mobile access, and visitor management to work as a unified system across multi-tenant buildings.
Evolution has direct experience of the Dublin commercial real estate market, including smart building implementations and mobile credential deployments for major occupiers. Our work with carefully selected technology partners demonstrate the appetite in the market for integrated, technology-forward solutions.
Independently Verified. Properly Accredited.
Accreditations are independently verified evidence that our systems, processes, and people meet defined standards that matter in the sectors we serve.
Irish Security Industry Accreditations
Quality & Management Systems
Additional Industry Credentials
Proven in Ireland. Proven at Scale.
We are Proudly Employee Owned
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Evolution has an established presence in Ireland, with offices in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. We hold a PSA licence and are Qualsec Platinum members of the Irish Security Industry Association (ISIA), the highest membership standard available. We serve clients across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Yes. Evolution holds a PSA (Private Security Authority) licence, which is a legal requirement for companies installing security systems in Ireland. The PSA independently inspects and audits our processes, systems, and engineering standards. Our ISIA Qualsec Platinum membership provides an additional layer of independent verification.
Evolution Ireland provides electronic security systems (CCTV, access control, intruder detection, intercom and visitor management), life safety systems (fire detection and alarm, emergency voice evacuation, disabled refuge), security risk assessment and design, professional services infrastructure, and 24/7 remote managed monitoring. We also offer an embedded engineer model for large-scale, multi-site programmes.
Our primary focus in Ireland is pharmaceuticals and life sciences, data centres, financial services, and commercial real estate. Ireland is Europe's largest net exporter of pharmaceuticals, and we have established, proven experience protecting pharmaceutical manufacturing environments to FDA, DEA, GMP, and HPRA standards. We also serve technology companies with data centre operations and financial institutions based in Dublin.
Yes. This is one of our strongest areas of capability in the Irish market. We have delivered security infrastructure across a 23-site EMEA pharmaceutical estate, with embedded Evolution engineers operating within the client's own team. Our experience spans FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliant access control, GMP-environment CCTV, controlled substance tracking, clean room access management, and HPRA-aligned security governance. We understand how Irish pharmaceutical facilities operate - not just the technology, but the compliance environment that surrounds it.
The Irish Security Industry Association (ISIA) Qualsec scheme is the Irish security industry's quality assurance programme. Platinum is the highest membership grade, requiring independently audited compliance with ISIA standards across installation quality, engineer competence, and business practices. It is the Irish market's equivalent of NSI Gold in the UK, and it gives clients an independently verified assurance of the quality of work they will receive.
Yes. Evolution operates across the island of Ireland from offices in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast, and holds the licences and accreditations required to operate in both jurisdictions. For clients with cross-border operations, we can design, install, and manage security systems across both the Republic and Northern Ireland under a single contract relationship, with consistent standards of delivery on both sides of the border.
An embedded engineer model places a dedicated Evolution engineer within a client's own operations working as part of their team rather than as a visiting contractor. This model is particularly well suited to large, complex, multi-site programmes in regulated environments where continuity, deep system knowledge, and a trusted working relationship are critical. Evolution has operated this model successfully across a major multi-national pharmaceutical programme spanning 23 sites across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Yes. Since April 2022, 77% of Evolution Security has been held in an Employee Ownership Trust for the benefit of all employees. This means every member of our Ireland team has a direct stake in the quality of what we deliver. Employee ownership is not a marketing message. It is the structure that explains why our people approach their work the way they do.
The fastest route is via our contact form below, or you can reach the Ireland team directly. We are happy to have an initial conversation about any project, whether it is at concept stage, an active tender, or a review of existing systems. There is no obligation, and we are not in the habit of hard selling.