Building work, groundworks and development
We build. Groundworks, foundations, structure, and the external works at the end of it. We also take our own sites and develop them. Send drawings and we will price it.
What we does
Two related things sit behind those registrations. The first is contracting: carrying out building work on a site for whoever owns it, to a specification and a programme agreed beforehand. The second is development: taking a site on our own account, obtaining what it needs by way of consent, building on it, and dealing with the result.
Most enquiries concern the first. A client has a site, a scheme and a budget, and needs someone to build it. The work is priced from drawings and a specification, a programme is agreed, and us builds to it.
Where the work starts
Nearly every job starts below ground. Groundworks, the excavation, the drainage, the foundations and the slab, determine whether everything above them goes to programme. That's the part of a building contract where the ground itself decides the timetable, and where the unexpected costs money: made ground, a high water table, an old foundation nobody knew about, a service that's not where the drawings say it's.
Commercial and domestic
We're registered for both. They are genuinely different disciplines. Commercial work tends to be larger in span and simpler in plan, with services and structure the dominant concerns. Domestic work is smaller, more heavily detailed, and far more sensitive to finish, because the client looks at it every day. Sequencing, supervision and the trades involved differ accordingly.
Making an enquiry
For a build, the useful things to send are drawings if you have them, the address of the site, and when you would want to start. If you have not reached drawings yet, say what you're trying to achieve and we will tell you what it needs in order to price.