Commercial
Fit-out, refurbishment, new build and maintenance for commercial property owners, occupiers and managing agents across Leeds and West Yorkshire.
Commercial work is measured against a date. A unit that is not ready is a unit not earning, and the cost of an overrun usually dwarfs the cost of the work itself.
We work for property owners, occupiers, managing agents and developers across Leeds and West Yorkshire on fit-out, refurbishment, new build and maintenance.
Constraints
What this sector demands
Every sector brings its own conditions. These are the ones that shape how a job here has to be run.
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Live buildings Most commercial refurbishment happens around people still using the building. Phasing, segregation and out-of-hours working are normal parts of the programme, not exceptions.
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Landlord and lease Licence to alter, reinstatement obligations and schedules of condition all shape the scope. We will work to them where you tell us what they are.
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Handover documentation Commissioning certificates, an O&M file and as-built information at handover, in the format your facilities team needs.
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Programme certainty A written programme with the constraints already built into it, rather than an optimistic one that has to be rewritten in week three.
How it runs
A commercial job, stage by stage
Brief and site survey
We look at the building, the services, the access and what is above and below you. On an occupied building that survey is as much about how you operate as about the structure.
Scope and programme
Priced against a defined scope with a programme built to your access windows, not to ours. Phasing, out-of-hours working and shutdown periods are agreed before the price is fixed.
Pre-construction
RAMS, permits, insurance certificates, method statements and the CDM position issued and agreed before mobilisation rather than chased afterwards.
Mobilisation
Site set-up, segregation from the trading or working parts of the building, welfare, and a single named contact who is on site and answers the phone.
Delivery and reporting
Written progress against the programme at agreed intervals, with variations priced and agreed in writing before they are carried out.
Handover
Snagging cleared, O&M information, certificates and test results handed over, and the building left in a state you can trade from.
What we need before we can price it
Not all of it, and not on day one. But the more of this we have before the site visit, the closer the first number is to the final one — and the sooner we can tell you if we are the wrong firm for the job.
No prices appear on this site. A construction figure published without seeing the building, the ground and the specification is a guess, and a guess helps nobody.
Services
What we do for commercial clients
- New build construction Individual houses through to multi-unit schemes, taken from foundations to handover.
- Structural works & underpinning Steels, load-bearing wall removal, underpinning and remedial work to existing structures.
- Groundworks & civils Excavation, foundations, drainage, retaining structures and hard standings.
- Landlord & rental refurbishment Bringing a tired property back to a lettable standard, on a programme built around void periods.
- Commercial fit-outs & refurbishment Office, retail and hospitality fit-out, including phased and out-of-hours working.
- Property development & conversions Change of use, conversions and development work, including multi-unit schemes.
- Industrial & warehouse works Units, workshops and storage — structural repairs, flooring, doors and external works.
- Driveways, patios & external works Block paving, resin, flagging, drainage, fencing and boundary walls.
- Planned & reactive maintenance Scheduled maintenance and call-out response across a single property or a whole portfolio.
Common questions
Questions commercial clients ask
Can you work while we are still trading?
That is how most commercial work is done. It means phased or out-of-hours working, physical segregation from the public and staff, dust and noise control, and a programme built to your access windows. All of it is priced in from the start rather than discovered once the hoarding goes up.
What documentation do you issue before starting?
Risk assessments and method statements, insurance certificates, the CDM position and any permits your building requires. They are issued and agreed before mobilisation. If you have a contractor approval process, tell us what it needs and we will complete it.
Do you handle landlord's consent and licences to alter?
We work with them rather than obtain them — the licence is between you and your landlord. What we can do is provide the drawings, specification and method statements the landlord's surveyor will ask for, and build to what is finally consented.
Before you shortlist us
Everything a pre-qualification asks for, set out as it actually stands rather than as we would like it to.