Clearance, setting out and reduced-level dig to a workable platform.
ExploreFinishing & Specialist
Core coverage
Commercial groundworks and civils packages across London and the South East.
All areas we cover
Finishing & Specialist
Core coverage
Commercial groundworks and civils packages across London and the South East.
All areas we coverSubstructure packages across Essex, from Brentwood and Basildon out to Chelmsford and Thurrock.
Thurrock, Basildon and Brentwood sit on routes our wagons already use, and Chelmsford is inside a working morning. Much of our Essex work is industrial and distribution, which suits the way we are set up.
Where we are not the nearest contractor, we will say so. Where we are the right one, the travel is priced into the job rather than added later.
One discipline or the whole substructure — the scope does not change with the postcode.
Clearance, setting out and reduced-level dig to a workable platform.
ExploreMuck shift and dig to formation under a managed haulage plan.
ExploreStrip and trench-fill footings, pads, pile caps and ground beams.
ExploreFrames, cores, retaining walls and watertight basement boxes.
ExploreFoul and surface water runs, chambers, attenuation and connections.
ExploreGround-bearing and power-floated slabs laid to tolerance.
ExploreAlso delivering hard & soft landscaping, tank installation and Section 278 highway works.
See all servicesThe same sequence on every Essex job, so you always know what happens next and who owns it.
Send the plans, the scope and the dates you need to hit. You get an honest answer on whether it suits us.
We walk it and check access, levels, ground conditions and services. Most surprises get found here rather than mid-dig.
A priced package with the build order set out and a start date we are willing to commit to.
Our own crews, plant and supervision, with one point of contact reporting as the works progress.
Inspected, signed off and cleared, ready for the follow-on trades to start on programme.
Much of Essex is London Clay, which is well understood and predictable. Nearer the estuary you get soft alluvial deposits where a piled solution is usually the answer rather than a deeper footing, and where the dig behaves very differently.
The scale is the other factor. Distribution and industrial units mean large slabs, long drainage runs and high-volume muck away, so the haulage plan matters as much as the engineering.
A look at substructure work across the county.
Same crews, same plant, same scope — different postcode.
Site somewhere else? Send the postcode with your drawings and we will tell you straight away.
All areas we coverIf yours is not here, ring the office — it is usually a two-minute answer.
Yes, and a lot of our Essex work is exactly that. Large slabs, long drainage runs and serious muck away volumes, priced from the drawings with the haulage plan included.
Piling is a specialist package and we work alongside the piling contractor. We take over at the caps: forming, reinforcing and pouring over the installed piles, and casting the beams between them.
The site investigation decides it. Soft alluvium usually means a piled solution rather than a deeper footing, and we price what the engineer has designed rather than what we would prefer to dig.
Travel is built into the price transparently. If distance makes us the wrong contractor for a particular job, we will tell you rather than pad the number.
Yes, and on a large footprint it is usually the cheaper way to run it, because the sequence stays with one contractor.
We will walk it, measure it up, and come back with a price and a start date we can hold.