Commercial & Industrial Groundwork

Small commercial and light industrial work is exactly what we are set up for. A lot of larger groundwork firms will not mobilise for a single unit floor, a machine base or a yard reinstatement, and a lot of domestic builders are not set up to work on a live commercial site. We sit in between: big enough to do the job properly, small enough that a one or two week contract is worth our time and gets a named contact rather than a call centre.

We lay fibre-reinforced and steel-reinforced slabs to engineer's specification, including power-floated finishes, thickened edges and edge beams, designed falls to drainage, and formed pits or plinths. If you have a structural engineer's drawing we build to it; if you do not, we can advise on a suitable build-up for the loading you describe — racking, forklift traffic, vehicle hardstanding or static plant.

Yes. We carry £1 million public liability cover and can supply a copy of the certificate for your records or your principal contractor's file before we start on site. Our site management holds SMSTS, and we are registered with the Environment Agency as a waste carrier, so arisings and spoil leave site legally and documented. If your contract requires a higher level of cover, tell us at enquiry stage and we will confirm what we can put in place before you commit.

Yes, and most of our commercial work is exactly that. We phase the work so you keep access and trading where possible, agree hoarding and segregation up front, and can work outside normal hours or over a weekend shutdown where the disruption cost of a weekday pour would be higher than the premium. Tell us the constraint and we will programme around it.

Yes. Excavation and muck-away, sub-base preparation and compaction, foul and surface water drainage, ducting, kerbing and edge details, and the finished slab or hardstanding — all from one contractor. That avoids the gap between trades where responsibility for levels and falls usually gets lost.

We remove asbestos cement sheeting and panels as non-licensed work, which covers the great majority of old industrial roofing, cladding and outbuildings. Higher-risk materials such as sprayed coatings, lagging and most asbestos insulating board require an HSE-licensed contractor, and we will tell you plainly if that is what you have rather than taking on work that is not ours.

We are based in Wolverhampton and cover the whole Midlands region. That means the West Midlands, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Herefordshire, and across into the East Midlands — Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire. Day-to-day that includes Birmingham, Walsall, Dudley, Coventry, Telford, Stafford, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Northampton. If you are near the edge of that, ask — we will tell you honestly whether we are the right firm for the location.