01
Site & enabling
Survey, geotechnical investigation, hoarding and access. We resolve the ground before anyone prices the frame.
Site
Enabling works & survey
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Contract, according to ESG
Ground
to Handover
ESG is a design-led construction and development company working across private residences, hospitality and selective commercial work. We take projects from enabling works through structure, envelope and fit-out to a handover that needs no snagging list — structure, MEP, joinery and smart-home integration held inside one contract and one programme.
Key values
One
contract
contract
Mock-up
first
first
Open
cost
cost
Handover
that holds
that holds
We are the contractor architects call when the drawing is difficult.
A flush threshold. A shadow gap that holds a line across twelve metres. A corner with no column in it. These are the things a client remembers, and they are the first to disappear when a contractor prices risk by removing it.
We price the difficult detail properly, build a mock-up, and hold the programme around it. Slower at tender, faster on site — and the reason most of our work arrives through architects rather than agents.
Where we build
Method — seven stages
01 / 07
02
Substructure
Piling, pile caps and retaining walls. Waterproofing detailed and tested before backfill, never after.
03
Frame
Columns, cores and slabs poured level by level. Every pour surveyed and recorded against the model.
04
Envelope
Blockwork, rainscreen and roofing. The building is made watertight before a single finish is ordered.
05
Glazing & cladding
Minimal-frame glazing installed and pressure-tested. Stone set out from a dry-lay, not from a drawing.
06
Fit-out & landscape
Joinery, stone, pools and planting. Systems commissioned together so the house works as one on day one.
07
Handover
Commissioning records, O&M manuals, a full digital twin and twelve months of defects cover.
Reference
The Contract Book
Drawing sets, specifications and completed-project records for the current contract portfolio. Structural, MEP and envelope details as built, with the commissioning schedules that accompany every handover.
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Who we build for
Private owners and their architects, mostly by introduction. Eleven of the last fourteen projects came from a practice or a client we had already built for.
Architects
Design-led practices who want the detail built as drawn.
Private owners
Single residences where the client is the decision-maker.
Hospitality operators
Phased works around rooms that stay open.
Family offices
Development partnerships on land already held.
“They priced the difficult detail instead of talking us out of it.”
Principal, Dubai-based architecture practice
“Two years on and the snagging list is still empty.”
Owner, Jebel Vista Residence
Integration
The house should answer in one sentence.
Lighting, shading, climate and media are commissioned together, on one bus, against one set of scenes. Not five apps and a drawer of remotes — one wall panel, and a house that behaves the same on the day you move in as it does five years later.