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 seven offices in the East Midlands, Midlands and Southern England and the North West. 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.

Redevelopment – Education

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.

Refurb – Education

Demolition of an existing redundant swimming pool and construction of a new junior and infant school facilities.

Stepnell were appointed through the Procure Partnerships Framework to deliver the expansion of school premises in six different areas of the school grounds, creating an additional 240 pupil places and bringing the facilities up to current standards.

Part of the OAK Multi Academy Trust, the Junior and Infants Schools share the same campus, accommodating approximately 900 pupils from pre-school up to Year 6.
The project involved works to increase and improve facilities at both schools.

Demolition and backfill of an existing redundant swimming pool and associated outbuildings was followed by construction of a new Junior School classroom block comprising studio, offices, WCs, storage and plant room.

The Infant School building was extended providing classrooms and withdrawal space plus the reconfiguration of existing WCs.

The existing main halls of both the Infants and the Juniors were extended to provide additional storage facilities.

The school remained open throughout. Logistics and delivery methodology maintained safe access for staff, pupils and parents and minimised disruption to day-to-day operations and key events such as SATS tests.

Badger sett relocation and protection measures were implemented in line with ecological requirements.

As part of Stepnell’s project social value commitments, over 200 hours of staff volunteering and £1,100 of materials were donated to create a memorial garden with the school grounds.

“I have been overwhelmed by your kindness and generosity in your time and resources in the development of the garden. It looks amazing and I will be forever grateful to you for creating something that our community can enjoy.” Head teacher at Overdale School

Refurb - Education

Refurbishment of a vacant former special educational needs (SEN) school building to consolidate the existing pupil referral unit (PRU) in Leicester city centre.

The client’s brief was to refurbish the former Nether Hall special school site (which previously served children and adults with significant learning and physical difficulties) to provide a Primary Pupil Referral Unit to accommodate 40 pupils.

The existing school, constructed circa 1970s, was a purpose-built building with single and two storey spaces. It has been altered and extended over its lifetime and, prior to Stepnell’s appointment, had stood vacant for the five years.

In order to accommodate the PRU’s specialist requirements, complex remodelling of the internal accommodation was required together with essential condition improvement works to bring the building back into use.

Stepnell worked closely with the client and consultant team to deliver the programme of works, providing flexible teaching and learning space for staff and primary school pupils at Key Stage 1 & 2.

Stepnell East Midlands:9 Regan Way, Chetwynd Business Park, Nottingham. NG9 6RZ
Email eastmidlands@stepnell.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1156 979200

www.stepnell.co.uk