With almost 160 years of family-owned heritage, Stepnell is a highly experienced complete construction partner, delivering maximum project quality and value for clients, while remaining a family business at heart.

We understand the unique drivers and challenges at work across a diverse range of sectors. This understanding fuels our mission to seamlessly provide complete end-to-end project services across design, build, project management, energy management and land / asset developments.

The Stepnell Group is a well-capitalised and financially resilient business, operating from six offices in the East Midlands, Midlands and Southern England. With over £40m net assets, we have resources and infrastructure in place to deliver challenging projects from £0-30m. However, we are more than that. We strive to add true value, anticipating risks and identifying new opportunities for our clients in education, residential, commercial, industrial, retail, healthcare, community, leisure and heritage sectors.

Establishing long-term and enduring relationships with organisations, based on shared values and our Teamship collaborative approach, has led to 75% of our turnover delivered through repeat business.

Clients benefit from our approach to early engagement, bringing in our supply chain to develop the best value response to their challenges. We work collaboratively proving performance through KPIs.

We are partners on over 14 key national and regional frameworks, including:

• SCAPE Regional Construction Framework
• Procure Partnerships Framework: Construction, Decarbonisation and Retrofit, Infrastructure
• Crown Commercial Services - Construction
• Southern Construction Framework
• LHC – Public Buildings Construction and Infrastructure Framework
• NHS Shared Business Services
• Pagabo
• Constellia

Frameworks allow clients to work with us at a far earlier stage than traditional procurement routes, giving us the opportunity to understand and mitigate challenges before they occur and providing better value for money, while remaining fully compliant with procurement regulations.

Construction
Our construction teams deliver maximum project quality and value for clients across design, build and project management. Understanding your goals, aspirations and vision is our number one priority. Using our expertise, we provide customers with options, alternatives and possibilities to maximise each project’s potential.

Property
We manage for ourselves and offer clients the full suite of property management, including lease renewals, dilapidation, energy performance and management. We have a strong track record in delivery, planning permissions for long term retention into the portfolio or subsequent sale.

Development
We work on our portfolio of properties as well as third parties, carrying out full development activities from land purchase, planning permission, business case preparation and construction. This includes both new build and refurbishment in commercial, industrial and residential sectors.

Step Energy
Offers targeted support with developing and delivering energy saving strategies and carbon reduction ambitions, through the implementation of renewable and efficient energy technologies, with a focus on identifying the best technology to suit individual needs and managing the successful install, commissioning and monitoring of the solutions, ensuring they are providing the best possible outcome for clients.

Joinery Workshop
We operate a specialist joinery workshop with an in-house team of time served craftspeople. We are able to offer joinery of the highest quality to any part of the UK. Our skilled team specialise in one off commissions and have a full design capability that enables us to respond quickly to clients’ needs.

Concrete repairs
Our concrete repairs team has decades of experience in this specialist sector. Whether it be crack repair, corrosion protection, remediation or strengthening, we can survey, design and execute works to the highest standards. Current clients include National Grid, working across the transmission system via a long-standing framework.

Step to Zero
‘Step to Zero’ is a bespoke process developed by Stepnell to draw out the sustainability opportunities within a project at the earliest possible stage, maximising their potential for our clients. In the context of the worldwide Climate and Ecology Emergency, we work with our clients to develop a logical road map to achieve Net Zero projects, while minimising natural resource use and waste, enhancing biodiversity, and obtaining benchmark certifications.

The redevelopment of the facility on the Abbey Park Campus to provide students with updated learning facilities to support the delivery of engineering T levels and other types of engineering qualifications.

Stepnell’s work on the 1,600m2 project includes the introduction of and upgrade to new industry standard computerised laboratories. These will be used to teach students across specialist engineering disciplines,including electrical engineering, electronic engineering, pneumatic and hydraulics, programmable logic controllers (PLC) and robotics.

A new mechanical engineering workshop is also being constructed by Stepnell to accommodate world-class equipment. A specialist hand skills development and projects area, welding booths and a state-of-the-art grinding room are being integrated to enhance the hands-on learning student experience.

Designed by award-winning firm Lungfish Architects, with construction works by Stepnell, the two-form entry school is scheduled to open in 2024, providing 420 places. The new school demonstrates Harworth’s commitment, as part of the Harworth Way, to working with local authorities and other partners to create sustainable communities, with this facility set to benefit the more than 1,000 residents soon to be living on site and those living in the wider area too.

The school will be built to a bespoke design based on forest school principles. Originating in Scandinavia, the forest school approach promotes education through play and activity while nurturing creativity through self-activity and investigation. To facilitate this, the school design consists of six single storey buildings, designed as a series of pavilions, which include teaching space as well as the school’s hall, kitchen, administration facilities and early years accommodation, all linked by way of a cloister. The teaching pavilions are organised around groups of four classrooms, offering much sought-after flexible teaching opportunities through a range of teaching spaces, such as group rooms and shared learning spaces.

The design and construction of an £12.5m extension, delivered in the heart of the University’s busy campus. Located at the heart of the university’s campus, the Percy Gee Building has undergone a significant transformation. A four-storey extension provides a brand new glazed façade to the building, which fronts onto the newly completed Fielding Johnson Square.

The extension houses facilities including a large food court; double the amount of space for social learning; and a new informatics lab for the study of information science.

The new facilities are far more suited to the diverse range of student groups at the university, with a multi-purpose studio for performance societies, a state-of-the-art media suite, and a central location for support services.

Our works complete the modernisation of the Percy Gee Building, delivering an extension to match the quality of the rest of the Students’ Union.

Located in Infinity Park, Derby, a major national centre for industry and innovation, the UK’s latest Nuclear AMRC is a purpose built industrial manufacturing nuclear research and development facility with ancillary office core, dedicated first floor office, associated service yard, car parking and external works.

The new centre focuses on later-stage development in technology areas, which will deliver the maximum impact for the UK’s nuclear supply chain, and act as a regional base for Nuclear AMRC’s supply chain development programme. The building has a total area of around 4,300 square metres, including a large open-plan workshop with 10 metre ceilings and 50 tonne cranes to allow work on large fabrications and assemblies, and dedicated laboratories for 3D printing and rapid prototyping, virtual reality and visualisation, and equipment qualification.

Nuclear AMRC Midlands provides a permanent base in Derby for the University of Sheffield’s Nuclear AMRC, part of the UK’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult, and a new home for the University of Derby’s Institute for Innovation in Sustainable Engineering (IISE).

Nuclear AMRC Midlands follows a pilot facility in Infinity Park’s iHub building, which Nuclear AMRC opened in February 2019. They worked with regional partners to build the new bespoke research facility, securing secured £6.85 million from central government in August 2020. Stepnell Ltd started construction of Nuclear AMRC Midlands in March 2022, and completed in April 2023.

The research centre will advance manufacturing capabilities for sustainable energy using a range of pioneering technologies. With energy prices now at record levels, Nuclear AMRC Midlands will help guide the manufacturing industry through the energy transition and facilitate growth in a carbon-neutral economy.

NAMRC achieved an ‘excellent performance’ score of 43/45 from the Considerate Constructors Scheme, 14/15 for respecting the community and care for the environment and 15/15 for valuing Stepnell’s workforce.

Development partners: The NAMRC was constructed by Stepnell Ltd for the government-backed Infinity Park Derby (IPD), a unique collaboration between the University of Derby, Derby City Council, Wilson Bowden, Peveril Securities, the Harpur Crewe Estate and Rolls-Royce and developers IPD LLP, with over £9 million funding from the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership. All joinery inside the welcome area was designed and crafted by Stepnell’s Joinery Workshop.

Through the Crown Commercial Services Framework, Leicester City Council Leicester City Council commissioned Stepnell to replace the existing roof covering at Aylestone Leisure Centre. The scheme also involves the installation of a large Solar Photovoltaic system which will enable the Leisure Centre to self generate a large percentage of their energy requirements, reducing demand on the local electricity network.

The project is being partly funded through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and is linked to the Council Climate Emergency Action Plan, which is critical to helping reduce carbon emissions around our cities to provide a cleaner environment for Earth’s inhabitants.

Aylestone Leisure Centre is also undergoing a major refurbishment to its entrance and studio, due to an investment of £1.94 million to develop more facilities within Leicester. The Leisure Centre offers a range of sporting activities, a 3G football pitch, swimming pools and gym.