RC Works & Basements

Reinforced concrete frames, cores, retaining walls and watertight basement boxes — formwork, steel and concrete all run by our own teams.

Overview

Reinforced concrete, kept in one pair of hands

RC work goes wrong at the interfaces: between the formwork gang and the steel fixers, between the steel and the pour, between the waterproofing and everyone else. We run all of it, so there is nobody to blame and nobody to wait for.

On basements that matters more again. A watertight box is only watertight if the detailing, the pour sequence and the joints are all treated as one job rather than three.

Reinforced concrete, kept in one pair of hands
One team, one interface Formwork, steel and concrete under one contract
Formwork and steel in-house

No interface between trades, so the pour is not held up waiting on another subcontractor.

Watertight detailing

Joints, water bars and penetrations detailed and installed as part of the same package.

Records with the works

Pour sheets, cube results and inspection sign-offs handed over as we go.

What’s included

What an RC works package covers

Scope is taken from the engineer’s drawings — this is what it usually contains.

RC frames and slabs

Columns, beams and suspended slabs formed, reinforced and poured.

Cores and lift pits

Stair and lift cores, pits and bases cast to tolerance.

Retaining walls

Reinforced walls with drainage and waterproofing detail.

Watertight basements

Basement boxes with joints, water bars and penetrations detailed.

Formwork and steel fixing

All formwork set and all reinforcement fixed by our own teams.

Concrete placement

Pumped or skipped placement, compaction and curing.

How we deliver it

How an RC works package runs

The same sequence every time, so you know what happens next and who owns it.

Drawings and sequence
Formwork
Steel fixing
Pour and cure
Strike and hand over
Step 1 of 5 Drawings and sequence

We price from the engineer’s drawings and set the pour sequence, including the joints and the temporary works.

Step 2 of 5 Formwork

Formwork set, aligned and checked for line, level and plumb before any steel goes in.

Step 3 of 5 Steel fixing

Reinforcement fixed to the drawing with correct cover, then inspected before the pour is booked.

Step 4 of 5 Pour and cure

Concrete placed, compacted and cured, with cubes taken and pour records kept.

Step 5 of 5 Strike and hand over

Formwork struck at strength, finish checked, and the structure handed over with its records.

Our work

Recent projects.

A look at work delivered across London and the South East.

Got a project coming up?

Send us the drawings and the dates you need to hit. We’ll come back with a measured price and an honest start date.

FAQs

RC works and basement questions.

If yours is not here, call the office — you will get a straight answer, not a callback form.

01895 725125

The concrete detailing that makes a box watertight — joints, water bars, penetrations and pour sequence — is ours. Applied membrane systems are usually a specialist warranty package, and we install alongside them so the detail is not split across two contracts.

Yes. Formwork and steel fixing are both in-house, which removes the interface where most RC delays start.

Sequence and joint positions are agreed with the engineer before we start, then pours are booked against the programme. We would rather move a pour than rush one and end up with a cold joint in the wrong place.

Whatever the specification calls for. Line, level and plumb are checked at formwork stage and again before the pour, because that is the only point where correcting it is cheap.

Yes, and often do. Pump access, delivery timings, crane sharing and noise windows all get planned into the sequence rather than discovered on the day.

Got RC works or a basement to price?

Send the drawings and the dates you need to hit. We will come back with a measured price, a pour sequence and a start date we can hold.