Reinforced concrete retaining walls, piled cliff structures, marine concrete on a Grade II listed lido and turnkey builds. Five projects, each written up with the engineering that went into it, so you can judge the work on the detail rather than on a photograph.
Every groundworks and construction project on this page was delivered by Cornwall Civils & Construction under one contract, from the first cut in the ground to the finished structure.
Most were built to an architect's detail or under an external structural engineer's direction. The design belongs to the engineer; building it to that design, and standing behind it, belongs to us.
Client names and contract values are not published here. What is published is the engineering: the depth of the foundation, the thickness of the wall, the grade of the concrete and the constraint the site imposed. That is what a developer or a main contractor is actually assessing.
Each project below has its own page with the full technical story on it.
The site was tight and stepped, so every timber shutter was handmade to fit its step and the wall runs single sided and double sided along its length. The architect redesigned the sloping stair wall mid job, and the cast in situ steps up to the new build followed the new detail. Self consistency grade concrete, pumped by SprayRend Concrete Pumping, over Blue Elvan hard rock packed out at base level.
Jubilee Pool is a Grade II listed art deco lido built in the 1930s and sitting directly on the seafront, which sets the whole method. Marine grade concrete and rapid set concrete were specified for a structure that takes salt water year round, and the working windows were dictated by the tide rather than by the programme.
A full main dealership taken down in Exeter: the glazed showroom, the mezzanine and the steel frame, dismantled by machine with a sorting grab and hydraulic shear, and hot cut at height, including night working. A job Matt ran on site from the intact building to a cleared apron.
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If your project needs the ground opening up, concrete putting in and a structure building on top of it, that is one conversation with us rather than three. Tell us what the site is and where it is, and we will come and see it.
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Last updated: 22 September 2026
