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Globe Civil Engineering delivers groundworks packages for housing developers, principal contractors and commercial clients across East Anglia and the Southeast. From the first dig to a finished slab signed off and ready for the superstructure, our teams work to the programme and the standards your downstream trades depend on.

We operate either as a subcontractor within a principal contractor's site or as principal contractor in our own right. Either way, the priorities are the same: a programme that holds, formation and slab levels that are right first time, and the documentation that keeps Building Control, the NHBC and the warranty provider satisfied.

Where a scheme calls for a heavy duty industrial floor or a jointless yard surface rather than conventional paving, that is covered by our specialist surfacing package, laid over the same base we have built.

What we deliver

Our groundworks packages cover the full scope from site clearance through to a level, signed-off slab:

Our groundworks packages cover the full scope from site clearance through to a level, signed-off slab. That includes site clearance and demolition with staged mechanical demolition and segregation of arisings for recycling; bulk earthworks and excavation, from reduced level dig and cut and fill to formation set to the structural engineer's design; foundations of every type, including traditional strip and trench fill, raft foundations, piled foundation caps and ground beams, and non-standard designs for insulated concrete frame (ICF) and modular builds; foul and surface water drainage with connections, soakaways and attenuation; hardcore sub-base placement and compaction, reinforced and unreinforced slabs and external hard standings; and reinforced concrete works, including steel fixing to engineer's drawings, formwork and pumped or poured concrete up to large single pours.

The detail that matters at procurement

Developers and quantity surveyors aren't buying “groundworks” - they're buying programme certainty and a clean handover to the next trade. That's where we focus:

Developers and quantity surveyors aren't buying “groundworks” - they're buying programme certainty and a clean handover to the next trade. We focus on formation sign-offs that don't slip, with levels and sub-base set out, tested and signed off so the slab goes down right first time and the superstructure isn't held up. We work to NHBC standards and coordinate Building Control inspections at the right stages, with the records to prove it, and deliver against site-specific RAMS under CDM 2015 whether acting as principal contractor or subcontractor. Our plant and crews are experienced in the chalk, clay and variable ground typical across Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Essex, and we plan the dig and foundation approach around what's actually under the site. Routine CAT scanning before excavation, with hand-digging around identified live services, removes the risk of a strike.

How we work

Every package is planned forward in detail: demolition, excavation and substructure works are sequenced so the slab is delivered in time for follow-on trades to start without delay. We coordinate directly with the client, the structural engineer, the warranty provider and the superstructure manufacturer, cross-checking design inputs early to resolve inconsistencies before they reach the dig. Works are delivered against a defined programme and signed off at each stage, with mechanical plant operated by trained, certificated operatives.

Accreditations

CHAS, CITB and UK Power Networks accredited. Our operators hold CPCS and NPORS certification. All works delivered under site-specific RAMS with full PPE compliance.

Part of the Globe Group

Groundworks is the first package on site, which makes GCE the natural entry point for the wider Globe Group. Where we're delivering as part of the group, we coordinate directly with Globe Cambridge (scaffolding) and Globe Roofing as the build progresses - giving developers a single point of accountability across the early and middle stages of a project, and continuity of standards from the dig through to the roof.

Get a groundworks package priced

Planning a development or need a groundworks package priced? Get in touch with the team to discuss your programme.