Conservation / Renovation projects range from simple decorating tasks to fragile churches, deteriorating mansions and manor houses, fire damaged thatches and even monuments. All present interesting challenges including interaction with building instability, fragile or irreplaceable building fabrics, manicured grounds and gardens, loading and access difficulties, sensitive occupants and so on.
Overcoming challenges such as these requires a good understanding of the nature of such projects and a commitment to the client offering ideas consultation and a shared experience providing scaffolding and access solutions both fit for purpose and cost effective.
Construction / Building projects can be very close or very far apart in terms of programming, safety and cost management, but both disciplines require the same level of pre-planning and consultation to enable projects to come in on time and budget. The industry generally views housing as a simple task and probably applies too little at the pricing and consultation stage. We at 1st offer a full package offering all potential requirements to any house building task to allow the client to cherry pick and find their own values based on their building methods. We find this reduces confusion in the project and variation costs as the works proceed.
Construction is viewed very differently and the industry generally takes construction tasks more seriously with a heightened focus on design, planning and interaction between trades. We find applying the same doctrines to the whole housing/construction sector to be very beneficial to the projects especially regarding safety, costs and planning.
Our clients in these sectors include Kier, Balfour Beatty, BAM, ISG and others. we enjoy the challenges raised by construction and manage our capacity to avoid over commitment. we look forward to continued good relationships with our clients and invite any potential new clients to submit enquiries, which will receive our best attention, at any time.
Domestic & Minor works cover a large variety of private clients, individual small builders and municipal term contracts with major clients working on behalf of the government and housing associations.
The industry generally treats these projects as simple, we find however that the most successful of these minor works are also those that are best planned. What maybe minor work to us is often a big event in the world of our clients or the occupants of the properties they maintain. We have a good reputation and history within this discipline which we attribute to the application of serious planning to even the smallest of task.
Civils & Special projects; of all the disciplines we engage with we find these the most interesting. The challenges almost always involve working in confined spaces, live factory environments, food production etc.
We also have a wide client base involved with flood management and environmental controls. The works range from minor access to control panels and valves to major bridging works covering road and river. We also engage with major tidal projects including promenades, piers, lighthouses, Jetties, slipways and pretty much all things nautical.
Special projects require a high level of training and accreditation which we take very seriously, for which we have an ongoing training and apprentice scheme to keep us up to date on this and all our disciplines.