What small works covers
Partitions, stud walls and suspended ceilings. Decorating and making good. Flooring. Doors and joinery. Lighting, power and data. Minor plumbing, and adjustments to heating and ventilation. Kitchens and tea points. Lockers and built-in storage. Accessibility adaptations.
In short, the work that turns a layout on paper into a space people can use, without the cost and lead time of bringing in a main contractor.
One contract, one point of contact
We work with a small group of trusted partners for the building trades, and we project manage the work ourselves. You deal with one company rather than coordinating separate trades, and the building work and the furniture are programmed together, so nothing arrives before the room is ready for it.
We hold the relevant liability insurance and are CHAS accredited, and our partners' teams carry the CSCS cards the work requires.
Where small works fits
Most main contractors set their minimum at around £500,000. Below that, organisations are often left managing several trades themselves, or paying for a contractor whose overheads are built for much larger jobs.
Small works fills that gap, typically on projects up to around £250,000: a floor, a suite of rooms, a reception, a kitchen, or the works that go with a furniture refresh. Work can be phased, and carried out out of hours where needed, so the building keeps running.
Recent examples
Campus Living, Manchester: kitchen repairs for student accommodation, managed as one job rather than a list of separate trades.
UCL Rare Dementia: new lockers, with stud walls built and plastered around them, so the storage and the building work were delivered together.
Small works and furniture, planned together
Most refurbishments need both. Building the partitions and choosing the furniture separately is how a meeting room ends up too small for its table, or a power point lands behind a cupboard.
Planning them together, from one layout, avoids that. It also means the furniture you already own can be audited, refurbished and reused around the new works, rather than cleared to make way for them.
Related services
Small works usually sit alongside something else: a refurbishment, a new layout, or a refresh of the furniture you already own.
Whichever it is, the same team plans it, programmes it and sees it through to handover.
