Groundworks

Groundworks is our passion. Delivering projects safely, on time and to budget is our objective.

Utilising the combined expertise of Fred Champion Groundworks, Steve Hoskin Construction in conjunction with Groundfix Management team and workforce, we are able to offer a fully inclusive Groundworks and Earthworks solution to our clients utilising our vast knowledge of the industry and our highly experienced workforce of Contract Managers, Engineers, Groundworkers and Plant Operators.

We aim to offer “a one stop shop” Groundworks Service.

We can deliver a vast range of groundwork solutions which include:

Bulk excavation and land remediation
Reinforced Earth Bunds
Site clearance
Road construction to adoptable standards
Sewers to adoptable standards and domestic drainage
Pond Lining and attenuation tank construction
Tarmac surfacing
Retaining structures and tanking systems
Culverts
In-situ concrete structures
278 Works
Block paving
Sheet Piling
Sub-structure block and brickwork
Block and beam flooring (including sub-contract design)
In situ concrete construction
R/C works including steel fixing and form work shuttering
Various foundation types including piling, ground beams, rafts and Insulslab.

We are based in Plymouth putting us in a strategic central position for projects in the South West, covering areas from Taunton, Honiton, and Bideford in the East to Penzance in the West.

Within our Groundworks division we have our own full time engineers who operate "total station" setting out instruments, using the CAD information supplied by our clients to engineer the site within the specified tolerances.

We operate a lump sum all risk pricing strategy if required, many of our clients ask for this service, enabling our clients site team to focus on other areas of their project which require a high level of design input, without concern for the management of the groundworks costs, material deliveries etc.

In many cases our client request Groundfix Ltd to be Principal Contractor, this means we have possession of the site and are responsible for Health and Safety on the site. This helps reduce prelim costs for our clients and enables us to ensure all of the requirements under the CDM regulations 2007 and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 are complied with.

We have our own dedicated Health and Safety Managers who advise us in all aspects of H&S. We also have our own training facilities within our office complex to enable training of our staff when required.

Our combined Groundworks business employs over seven hundred people excluding sub-contractors mostly from our local area, many of our employees have been employed on a full time basis for long periods of time