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Since the company was established in 2019, Fibrus has been driven by a simple belief: that connectivity should create opportunity. Now one of the UK and Ireland’ s fastest-growing full fibre providers, the company is building the digital infrastructure that links homes, businesses, and communities. Dedicated to closing the digital divide, Fibrus is bringing fast, dependable broadband to rural and underserved areas across Northern Ireland and Cumbria – places too often overlooked by traditional infrastructure investment.
Trusted by government entities and private businesses, Fibrus is not only building connectivity, but helping people thrive. When Construction & Civil Engineering last sat down with Shane Haslem, Group Chief Operating Officer at Fibrus, we took a deep dive into the company’ s successful delivery of Project Stratum. Through Project Stratum, Fibrus has laid 16,500km of cable, making full fibre available to more than 81,000 homes and businesses across Northern Ireland. Now, we rejoin Shane to learn more about how this success is being replicated in Fibrus’ delivery of Project Gigabit in Cumbria, alongside the company’ s recent developments.
“ In December 2025, Fibrus was awarded the Project Gigabit Northern Ireland contract to deliver full fibre connectivity to an additional 9000 rural premises in Northern Ireland. The £ 34.6 million project is part of the UK Government’ s investment into Project Gigabit, designed to provide hard-to-reach communities with access to fast, reliable, gigabit-capable broadband. This delivery came down to our proven track record of delivering on time and on budget through Project Stratum, which is seen as an exemplar programme in the Building Digital UK( BDUK) framework; we’ re now a trusted government
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