What we build
The list below describes the work our registrations plainly involve. What suits a particular site is settled from the drawings and from seeing the ground, not from a page.
Groundworks and drainage
Site clearance and reduce-dig, excavation for foundations and services, foul and surface water drainage, soakaways and attenuation, ducting for incoming services, and disposal of arisings. This is the work that most often decides whether a programme holds, because it's the work most exposed to what is actually in the ground.
Foundations and concrete
Strip, trench-fill and pad foundations, reinforced ground-bearing slabs, and the formwork and reinforcement that go with them. Concrete is placed, compacted and finished to the specification for the element concerned, a power-floated warehouse floor and a domestic garage slab aren't the same job.
Structure and envelope
Masonry and blockwork, steel frame erection where a scheme calls for it, floors, roof structure and the weathering envelope. The aim through this stage is a watertight building as early in the programme as the sequence allows, because everything that follows is easier and drier once it's.
Commercial buildings
Units, workshops, stores and offices, either as new build or as alteration and fit-out of an existing shell. The recurring questions are clear span, floor loading, door and access dimensions for whatever the occupier moves in and out, and the incoming services capacity the operation needs.
Domestic buildings
New houses, extensions, conversions and substantial alterations. Domestic work is detail-heavy and the client lives with the result, so junctions, finishes and the sequencing of trades matter more than raw output. Regulations for dwellings are more prescriptive than for commercial work, particularly on thermal performance, ventilation and means of escape.
External works
Roads, hardstanding, parking, kerbs, footpaths, retaining structures, fencing and the making good of everything the construction disturbed. It's the last work on site and the first thing anyone sees, which is a poor combination if it's left as an afterthought.
Development
Where us acts as developer rather than contractor it takes the site on its own account, carries the risk, and deals with the completed scheme itself. Approaches from landowners and agents about sites are read and answered either way.