Industrial
Structural repair, flooring, doors, cladding and external works to industrial units and warehouses across Yorkshire, phased around live operations.
In industrial work the building is earning money while you are working in it. A day of unplanned downtime usually costs the occupier more than a week of the construction does, which makes the programme the most important document on the job.
We carry out structural repair, flooring, doors, cladding, partitioning and external works to industrial units, workshops and warehouses across Yorkshire.
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 operations Segregation, traffic management and method statements that account for forklift and HGV movements, not just our own.
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Shutdown windows Where work needs the area down, it gets planned into shutdown periods and resourced to finish inside them.
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Working at height Roof and cladding work with the right access equipment and fragile-surface precautions, on buildings that were often not designed for maintenance access.
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Asbestos cement Common in industrial roofs and cladding. Surveyed and correctly classified before anything is touched.
How it runs
An industrial job, stage by stage
Survey around production
Walked with your maintenance or operations lead, because access and shutdown windows shape the job more than the building does.
Shutdown planning
Where a shutdown is needed, the programme is built to it and agreed in advance. Where it is not, the work is phased around live operations with segregation that actually holds.
Permits and isolations
Permit to work, hot works permits, isolations and lock-off procedures agreed with your team before anyone starts, and worked to rather than signed and filed.
Structural and fabric work
Cladding, roof sheets, structural repair, flooring, doors and external works — much of it on 1960s to 1980s portal frame where an honest survey is what separates a cosmetic job from a structural one.
Delivery around traffic
Forklift routes, HGV movements and yard traffic segregated from the works, because on a live industrial site the vehicles are the main hazard.
Handover
The area released back clean and operational, with certificates, test results and any warranties handed over.
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 industrial 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 industrial clients ask
Can you work without shutting the unit down?
Usually, with phasing and proper segregation. Where a shutdown is genuinely needed — and sometimes it is, for safety rather than convenience — we say so early enough for you to plan it rather than three days before.
Our roof sheets are original. Should we be worried about asbestos?
On a unit of that age it is a real possibility and a survey answers it. It changes who does the work, how it is done and what it costs, and finding out during rather than before is the expensive way round.
Is a portal frame repair a big job?
It depends what the survey finds, and on buildings of this age the survey is the job. Corrosion at the base of stanchions, purlin condition and sheeting fixings are where the real work usually is, and none of it is visible from the yard.
Before you shortlist us
Everything a pre-qualification asks for, set out as it actually stands rather than as we would like it to.