Overview
This is the load-bearing part of the job: the reinforced-concrete frames, the fair-face concrete you can see, and the heavy steel that holds everything up. We do it with our own crews, our own formwork and our own erection teams, so the people setting rebar and bolting up steel are on our payroll, not a chain of subcontractors. That matters when the schedule is tight and the tolerances are real. On the fair-face side we use engineered formwork and scaffolding to keep the pours moving without losing the finish. At Central Bus Station we cast 1.8 m-diameter circular fair-faced columns carrying post-tensioned solid slabs, and they came off the form as finished architecture with nothing to cover up.
On steel we fabricate and erect the full range, from pre-engineered insulated buildings with overhead cranes at the Schlumberger and FOX9 workshops up to 250-ton frames for Adidas and Calvin Klein, 16 m columns at MEDCO, and a 300-ton three-floor structure at EMC 8 with a completely free-span top floor. Every pour and every bolt-up goes through our own QA/QC. We inspect rebar before we close it in, test concrete cubes, run survey control on line and level, and verify bolt torque. All of it under an HSE regime the crews actually follow, and it's ours to answer for at handover.
What's included
- Reinforced concrete frames, cores & shear walls
- Engineered formwork, falsework & scaffolding
- Rebar detailing, fixing & inspection
- Structural steel fabrication & erection
- Precast & tilt-up elements
- Post-tensioning & specialist concrete
- Fair-face architectural concrete
- Pre-engineered steel buildings & crane systems
- Heavy lifts, long spans & free-span structures
- Concrete testing, survey control & as-built records
How we deliver it
We start by reading the drawings against the programme, agreeing the tolerances and finishes the client actually wants, and building the formwork and erection method around them. From there our own crews do the work in controlled cycles: rebar, pour, strike, then move on, with steel detailed and fabricated to shop drawings in parallel. We plan the sequence around the other trades so the MEP first-fixes and the follow-on finishes aren't waiting on us, and we hold the interfaces where slabs meet steel. Survey checks, cube tests and torque verification happen as the work goes in, not at the end, so problems get caught while they're cheap to fix. When an element is signed off we close it out and hand over a documented, as-built structure on the date we committed to.
How we deliver
Structural planning
We go through the design, agree the tolerances and finishes, and work out the formwork, scaffolding and erection method that fits the programme.
Fabrication & formwork
Steel is detailed and fabricated to shop drawings while the formwork is assembled and trial-fitted. Material certificates and weld checks are logged as we go.
Casting & erection
Our own crews do the rebar, the pours, the post-tensioning and the steel erection in controlled cycles, with survey checks and cube tests at every stage.
Inspection & handover
Torque checks, alignment surveys and finish inspections close out each element. Then we hand over a documented, as-built structure.
