Globe Civil Engineering delivers estate roads, adopted sewers and drainage infrastructure for housing and commercial developments across East Anglia and the Southeast. Our packages are built to adoption standards from the outset — designed around the agreements and approvals that get a development from completion to handover without delay.
For a developer, roads and sewers are where adoption risk lives. Get the standards, the inspections and the paperwork right and the scheme adopts cleanly. Get them wrong and handover stalls. We work to the former.
What we deliver
Our roads and sewers packages cover estate roads built to adoptable standards — sub-base, binder and surface courses, kerb lines, footways and shared surfaces — along with adopted foul and surface water sewers to water authority specification, including connections to existing networks. We install the full drainage infrastructure of gullies, manholes, chambers, attenuation and pumping stations where required, integrate SuDS schemes from design through to handover, and deliver the works aligned to S38, S104 and S278 agreements.
The detail that matters at procurement
We build to adoption standards throughout, not as an afterthought, so the road and sewer networks pass inspection and adopt without rework. We work to the requirements of Section 38 (road adoption), Section 104 (sewer adoption) and Section 278 (works to the existing highway), coordinating directly with local highways authorities and water undertakers. Formation sign-offs, sub-base compaction testing and staged inspections are documented so the adoption process runs smoothly, and we sequence the roads and drainage around the groundworks, plot construction and the overall site programme.
How we work
Each scheme is delivered against a defined programme and signed off at each stage. We coordinate directly with highways authorities and water undertakers, manage the inspection regime, and keep the records that the adopting bodies require. Works are delivered under site-specific RAMS by trained, certificated operatives.
Accreditations
CHAS, CITB and UK Power Networks accredited. CPCS and NPORS certified operators. All works under site-specific RAMS.
Part of the Globe Group
As part of The Globe Group, our roads and sewers package sits alongside groundworks, scaffolding (Globe Cambridge) and roofing (Globe Roofing). On a multi-package delivery, that means one group coordinating the infrastructure, the substructure and the trades above it — keeping the wider site programme aligned and accountability in one place.
Roads & Sewers FAQs
What are Section 38, Section 104 and Section 278 agreements?
Section 38 covers the adoption of new estate roads by the highways authority. Section 104 covers the adoption of new sewers by the water undertaker. Section 278 covers works to the existing public highway, such as new junctions or access. We deliver to the requirements of all three and coordinate directly with the adopting bodies.
Do you build to adoption standards?
Yes. We build estate roads and sewers to adoptable standards from the outset, with the inspections and documentation needed for the adopting authority to take them on without rework or delay at handover.
Can you install SuDS (sustainable drainage systems)?
Yes. We integrate SuDS schemes from design through to handover documentation, including attenuation and the drainage features increasingly required as a planning condition on housing developments.
Do you install pumping stations?
Yes, where the site levels or network require them, as part of the foul and surface water drainage package.
Who do you coordinate with on adoption?
We coordinate directly with the relevant local highways authority and water undertaker, managing the inspection regime and keeping the records the adopting bodies require throughout the works.
Can you deliver roads and sewers alongside the groundworks package?
Yes. We frequently deliver groundworks, roads and drainage as a coordinated package, sequencing the works around plot construction and the wider site programme. Where GCE is part of a Globe Group delivery, scaffolding and roofing can follow under the same group.
Which areas do you cover?
We deliver estate roads, sewers and drainage across East Anglia and the Southeast, including Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Hertfordshire.
Get your roads and sewers package priced
Need estate roads, drainage or adoptable sewers priced for a development? Talk to the team about your scheme and programme.
