Estate and access roads
Roads and access routes built to the specified depth, with kerbs and drainage.
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For builders, developers & site managers
Civil engineering contractors in ManchesterRoads, car parks, retaining structures and drainage
Infrastructure and structural groundwork for developments, built to specification.
- Fully insured
- Free written quotes
- Family-run
- Over 20 years
We build the civil engineering elements of developments and commercial sites: roads, car parks, retaining structures and drainage networks.
Civil engineering
Civil engineering for developments
Each one is built to the engineer’s drawings and specification.
If the ground on site does not match the design, we raise it with your engineer before building, not after. Any change is agreed in writing, so there is no dispute later.
- Built to drawing and specification
- Issues raised with your engineer early
- Changes agreed in writing
- Coordinated with the utility companies
What the work covers
Civil engineering for the trade.
Across Greater Manchester and Cheshire, as part of our commercial groundwork services.
Car parks and service yards
Car parks and yards with drainage, kerbing and a surface suited to the traffic.
Retaining structures
Concrete, crib and gabion retaining structures, built as designed.
Drainage networks
Foul and surface water networks with manholes, tested before they are covered.
Recent work
Recent civil engineering jobs.
A few photos of this kind of work. See the gallery for more.
Common questions
Civil engineering: your questions.
Do you build to adoptable standards?
We build to the specification we are given, including specifications written for adoption by the council or the water company. The adoption agreement itself sits with the developer.
What happens if the drawings and the ground do not match?
We stop and raise it with your engineer, with photographs and measurements, before building. Any change is agreed in writing.
Can you coordinate with the utility companies?
Yes. We plan trenching and ducting around the utility companies’ programmes, so their teams arrive to a trench that is open, safe and at the right depth.
Where to next
Related services.
Other commercial groundwork services, from the same team.
Commercial foundations
Foundations dug to the depth building control requires, set out accurately and poured once approved.
Commercial drainage
New drains, soakaways and garden drainage, and repairs to blocked or collapsed drains.
Car parks & hardstanding
Block paving, tarmac, resin and gravel driveways, built on a solid base.
External works & landscaping
Patios, steps, retaining walls, turf and planting, on ground that has been carefully prepared.
For homeownersRetaining wallsA job at home rather than on a site? See our domestic service.→
Areas we cover
Civil engineering across Greater Manchester & Cheshire.
We cover 42 towns from our yard in Gorton. See the areas we cover for travel times to your postcode.
Stockport
Trafford & Salford
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Need a price for civil engineering?
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