Secure & regulated environments.

Price is rarely why a flooring subcontractor fails to get onto a controlled site. These are the reasons, roughly in the order they come up.

• They cannot field a consistent, vetted team. Vetting takes time and applies to individuals, not companies. A subcontractor who resources jobs from a changing pool of agency labour cannot clear people fast enough, and every new face is a new application and a new escort.
• They subcontract the work. A second tier means a second set of people to vet, a second set of insurances and competencies to verify, and a chain of responsibility that a security-conscious client will not accept.
• Their documentation is generic. A method statement lifted from the last job does not survive a controlled-site review. RAMS have to be written for that site, that method, that access regime and that restriction set.
• They cannot work to escorted, restricted access. Limited windows, escorted movements, no phones, controlled tools and equipment, searched vehicles. Productivity assumptions built on open access do not survive contact with any of it.
• They talk about it afterwards. Publishing a client, a facility, a photograph or a location is the fastest way to never be invited back, and it puts the main contractor in a difficult position too.

We are set up for all five. Own operatives, own plant, documented method, and no published clients or facilities.

How long is the vetting lead time, and is it in the programme? Clearance is not instant and it is not transferable between sites. Building it into the programme at tender is the difference between mobilising on time and not.

How much does escorted access cost in productivity? Restricted windows, escorts, searches and controlled tool regimes all reduce output. It should be priced honestly rather than assumed away.

What documentation does the site actually require? It varies widely between defence, nuclear, custodial and utilities clients. Ask early, because retrofitting a documentation regime is painful.

Is the site live? Most regulated facilities are operational. The floor goes in around an operation that will not stop for it.

Can the subcontractor reach the pour? Security constraints frequently rule out the obvious placing method. Restricted vehicle access, no craning over live areas, and limited standing space are common.

Everything is delivered by our own operatives with our own plant. There is no second tier to vet, no agency gang, and no gap in the chain of responsibility.

Our teams and processes are set up for controlled-site requirements, and we hold membership of the Nuclear Industry Association alongside Constructionline Gold registration and Avetta and SSIP accreditation.

Consistency of personnel is what makes this work. The same people, cleared once, returning to the site, is a fundamentally different proposition from a new gang every fortnight.

RAMS are written for the site, not adapted from the last one. For controlled work that normally covers:

• Personnel list, competencies and vetting status
• Plant and equipment schedule, with controlled tool and equipment arrangements where required
• Access, escorting and movement arrangements
• Delivery routes, vehicle searches and standing arrangements
• Pour sequence and the finishing window it has to feed
• Wash-out location and disposal
• Waste, materials and substances brought on and taken off site
• Emergency and evacuation arrangements specific to the facility
• Photography, phone and information handling restrictions

Records at handover cover the flatness or surface regularity survey against the specified grade, cube results, pour records, joint layout as constructed, and curing method and durations. The same evidence pack as any other project, issued to the site's information handling rules.

• Escorted and restricted access. Short windows, controlled movement, searched vehicles, restricted equipment.
• Live operational facilities. The plant, the process or the institution keeps running. Phasing is designed around it.
• Restricted placing. Where vehicle access is limited or craning over live areas is not permitted, our own line pumps and track-mounted placing booms place the concrete. Two of only three such booms in the country, and they set up without a crane. See concrete pumping.
• Confined and constrained civils. We have delivered pumped works in confined civils environments, including at Catesby Tunnel.
• Information restrictions. No published clients, facilities, locations or photographs. Case studies from this sector are described by method only or not at all.
• Consistent personnel. Cleared teams returning to site rather than a changing gang.

Concrete flooring, including power floated slabs, large pours and external hardstandings for plant areas, yards and hardstandings.

Screeds, including flowing, liquid and self-compacting systems, and screeds on precast decks.

Both delivered with our own placing plant, which is frequently the reason we can work where others cannot.