Architects & professionals
Architects & Construction Professionals
A contractor that reads the drawings, raises buildability issues early and reports accurately.
Design professionals need a contractor who reads the information issued, understands what a detail is trying to achieve, and raises questions before the work is built rather than after.
SHS works alongside architects, structural engineers, quantity surveyors and project managers on residential, rural and commercial projects across Cumbria, delivering groundworks, masonry and steel packages to issued design.
Working together
How the relationship works
Questions early
Discrepancies, missing details and buildability concerns raised at pricing or pre-start stage, not mid-pour.
Built as drawn
Work is carried out to the issued information, with any proposed deviation agreed in writing first.
Records kept
Levels, formation conditions and inspection points recorded and shared where the project requires it.
Direct communication
You speak to the person doing the work, which shortens the route between a question and an answer.
Frequently asked questions
A budget view can be given from drawings, but a firm price follows a site visit — access and ground conditions have too much influence to ignore.
Relevant services
Groundworks & Civils
Groundworks & Civil Engineering
Site preparation, excavation, foundations, drainage and external works delivered as one coordinated groundworks package.
Groundworks & Civils
Foundations
Strip, trench-fill, pad and reinforced foundations built to engineer's detail and building control inspection.
Structures & Masonry
Blockwork
Cavity walls, foundation blockwork and loadbearing internal walls built plumb, level and to specification.
Structures & Masonry
Structural Steel
Steel beams, columns and frames installed and integrated with masonry to the engineer's design.
Technical
GPS Surveying & Setting Out
Accurate site setting out, with survey-grade GPS work arranged through specialist surveying partners.
Next step
Planning a project in Cumbria?
Tell SHS what you are building, repairing or preparing. Upload photographs, drawings or plans and the project can be reviewed before a site visit is arranged.