For developers · Main contractor and design and build
Because we develop our own schemes too. We price your job against the appraisal, protect your margin and keep piling, frame and fit-out under one roof.
Send your drawings and tender package. Early is better: the biggest savings come before planning is fixed.
Houses and apartments on cleared, vacant or brownfield sites.
Example: 9 apartments on Anerley Road for a developer client. JCT Design & Build, built in 15 months.
New floors and apartments on top of occupied buildings, with minimal disruption below.
Example: two storeys added over a former MOT centre in Dulwich, 7 apartments in total. FMB House Builder Award 2021.
Redundant offices, industrial and commercial buildings given a new use.
Example: Sandiford Studios, Sutton.
A developer bought a derelict shop with planning for 9 flats. Tenders and the QS report said the scheme would only break even. We took it on as main contractor under JCT Design & Build and turned it round.
Value engineering cut the price from £2.015m to £1.472m.
We negotiated scaffold and hoarding licence fees down from £100k to £15k.
A redesign removed wasted space, adding around £225k of value.
*Excluding finance and selling costs.
A developer bought an MOT testing centre in a Dulwich mews and won planning to change it from B2 to residential use. We kept and strengthened the existing steel frame, added two new storeys with 5 apartments on top, and converted the ground floor into 2 more.
The only access was a private drive behind a row of shops. Every delivery and machine movement was planned in advance, all the way through the build.
Opening up the old foundations showed they couldn't take the new loads. We spotted it at the start, helped redesign them with piles and ground beams, and kept the job moving.
“To a very high visual standard, enhancing the surroundings.”
Judges, FMB Master Builder Awards. Winner, House Builder Award 2021
We'd already built two award-winning schemes for this developer in Ealing, so they appointed us main contractor for their largest: 21 new apartments across three blocks.
Block A has a basement level with two duplex apartments opening onto private courtyard gardens. Planning was refused in 2017 and won on appeal in May 2019. We started on site in December 2020 and the scheme is complete.
A contractor that thinks like a developer. We read your appraisal before we price your drawings.
Value engineering aimed at your margin, not ours.
Our own piling team removes the gap between foundations and frame.
SIPs, light gauge steel and modular, using BOPAS-accredited systems. Less time on tight urban plots.
Development partner to TfL on its Small Sites programme.
We flag cost, buildability and programme risk at feasibility.
Priced tender or cost plan, with the assumptions written down.
Agreed before we start, not after.
The same person from start to handover.
Complete, snagged and documented.
From small infill and airspace schemes of a few homes up to apartment schemes of around 70 homes.
Yes, and we recommend it. Pre-construction advice is usually where the biggest savings are.
On the right scheme, yes. We can act as a joint venture partner and put in our own capital.
London and the Home Counties.
