T: 0117 914 7747

E: info@capstan.co.uk

209 Avonmouth Rd, Avonmouth
Bristol, BS11 9EG

Housing construction

Welcome to

Capstan Contractors Ltd

Capstan Contractors are a respected Bristol based Groundworks & Civil Engineering specialist. We are well known for providing a good quality service with a non-adversarial approach. Working as Principal Contractor, Contractor & Subcontractor to a number of clients in private housing, social housing, retail & commercial, together with more specialist infrastructure and bridge projects around the Southwest of England and Wales.

Capstan are approved by Wessex Water for connections to their drainage system and work closely with Environment Agency, Local Authorities, Highways & Network Rail to minimise any impact of our operations may have to the environment and the public.

Capstan have been trading for more than 27 years and have in this time established a reputation for delivering quality projects in good time for a number of clients, providing a reliable and genuine experience. They have a vast amount of experience and can usually find a solution for even the most challenging or technical scheme.

With a growing reputation delivering complex groundworks and civil engineering projects Capstan complete a road bridge at Norton Fitzwarren as Principal Contractor.

This particularly challenging project included environmental protection measures in close association with the environment agency various temporary works and water course protection measures.

Our Services

What we can do for you

From the beginning, our target has been to offer a dependable service, working to high standards within the programme deadlines set down by our customers for a ‘value for money’ price.

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Residential Housing

We have successfully delivered a huge variety of schemes from flat sites to complicate sloping sites requiring a variety of retaining wall solutions. We work for a select number of clients ranging from National PLC house builders, Privately Owned development companies and one off grand design projects for private clients. We  are currently involved with a number of sites being developed in the South West of England. He have a number of directly employed teams with varying skills each suited to the project in question. We also employ a number of quality specialist subcontractors.

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Social Housing

With the more recent trend towards increased numbers of Social Housing, we have been awarded a number of project with both mixed residential schemes part privately owned part Housing Association and schemes more specifically tailored for Social Housing. Our general house building experience and commercial skills provide a good basis for delivering these types of projects.

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Building & Construction

We have completed main projects including high quality hotels, nursing homes, schools, leisure facilities. Many schemes include podium deck reinforced insitu concrete structures, retaining walls, off site drainage and road works. We have worked with key clients often outside of our normal geographical areas including Berkshire, Telford and currently Bude. Our dedicated teams have worked closely with our clients to provide a dependable service with know resources.

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Civil Engineering

Capstan has maintained its reputation for having the technical expertise to undertake small and large civils schemes, including roads, bridges and retaining structures.

We have recently completed a very complex road bridge replacement scheme in Taunton. This required protection of the water course in accordance with EA guidelines, working below water level with interlocking sheet piling, dewatering, contiguous piling, precast bridge deck components and parapets, liaising with local authorities, designers and the general public.

We have provided boundary treatment walls alongside the main National Railway route from Swansea to London which required embankment monitoring rail network watching brief, sequenced programme and critical deadlines, all completed on time and to designed tolerances.

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Water Waste

Capstan are an approved Wessex Water Contractor and work for a range of clients connecting and upgrading schemes into the network. Many projects include the requirement to obtain local authority approval, Wessex Water approval, providing road closures, traffic management schemes and adapting schemes to overcome unknow services & obstructions.

We have completed a number of drainage attenuation projects, SUDS drainage schemes and deep, large diameter drainage projects within the highway in Bristol, South Glos, Somerset, Banes and Wiltshire.

On the Tools

Our Portfolio

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Civil Engineering

Construction of new Road Bridge

A particularly complex project with Capstan being employed by the developer as Principal Contractor to demolish the existing stone bridge and construct a wider precast concrete bridge, within an existing occupied residential street.

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Housing

Harry Stoke & Hambrook Bristol

We are currently work at Harry Stoke & Hambrook Bristol, Langford North Somerset and Yate with various schemes raging from 31 units to over 200 units, both for National house builders and private house builders.

News

Industry Latest

Vistry’s new apartment project at Ashton Gate

We have recently completed enabling works for Vistry’s new apartment project in Ashton Gate adjacent the Cumberland basin. The works include connection into the existing deep sewer, providing storm water storage all within close proximity to the Metro Bus network and Cumberland Basin’s tidal water level.

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