Groundworks and civil engineering · Leeds
We are the first contractor on site and the reason the rest run to programme.
Earthworks, drainage, reinforced concrete and external works across Yorkshire and the North East. Self-delivered, so there is one contract and one person accountable for the ground.
- Contract range
- £150k to £4m
- Where we work
- Yorkshire, Humber, North East
- Tender turnaround
- Ten working days
- £18m
Turnover, year to March 2026
- 96
People, including 71 operatives
- 0.41
Accident frequency rate, three-year
- 31 yrs
Trading, family owned since 1995
Services
Four packages, all self-delivered
How we price them- SVC 01
Earthworks and bulk excavation
Site clearance, cut and fill, muck away and remediation, from enabling works onward.
- SVC 02
Drainage and utilities
Foul and surface water, attenuation, ducting and service trenches, adoptable and private.
- SVC 03
Reinforced concrete and foundations
Pile caps, ground beams, rafts, slabs, retaining walls and pits, self-delivered.
- SVC 04
External works and surfacing
Roads, car parks, kerbing, paving, fencing and soft landscaping to completion.
Sectors
Where the work comes from
All six sectors- Industrial and logistics
- Distribution sheds, manufacturing plants and yards. Large-area slabs, HGV pavements and attenuation.
- £400k to £4m
- Residential development
- Estate roads, plot groundworks and adoptable drainage for housebuilders, from 20 to 400 plots.
- £300k to £3m
- Education and health
- Schools, clinics and campus work, usually in phases around a live site and a fixed holiday window.
- £250k to £1.5m
News
What we have been writing about
All updatesGPS machine control now runs across the whole earthworks fleet
The last four excavators were fitted in July, which means every machine on an earthworks package now cuts to the engineer’s model rather than to pegs.
Read itSection 104 drainage: what actually slows an adoption down
Four things hold up an adoption agreement, and three of them are decided before anyone breaks ground. Worth knowing if you are programming a residential site.
Read itOur three-year accident frequency rate, and how we count it
We publish the figure and the method, because an AFR quoted without a method is not a number, it is a claim.
Read it
Send us the drawings and the programme
Ten working days for a full groundworks tender, faster if you need a budget figure first. We price the discovery risk openly rather than hiding it in the rates.