Infrastructure Built by One Accountable Team

Infrastructure packages come apart at the interfaces. A typical S278 scheme involves earthworks, drainage, ducting, kerbing, surfacing, signals and traffic management, and when each element sits with a different subcontractor the main contractor ends up managing the gaps. Programme slips at every handover, defects go unowned, and the highway authority sees a different face each week.

We take the whole package and build it with our own people. EJ McGrath self-delivers highways and infrastructure works across the South West of England and South Wales with our own teams, plant and supervision, nothing passed down a chain. Within one package that typically means:

• S278 and S38 agreements, junction improvements and signal civils
• Active travel schemes, cycleways and new footways
• Bridges, retaining structures and reinforced concrete
• Highway drainage, ducting and utility diversions
• Earthworks, surfacing and road markings

How we run it on site

Live highways work is won or lost in the phasing. We plan traffic management, working windows and inspection hold points before an excavator arrives, coordinate utility diversions early and sequence the works so each phase hands over clean. Where we are digging around live services, our own T-VAC 2 vacuum excavation unit proves and exposes apparatus without risk to the asset. Everything is CDM-compliant and QA-led, with inspection and test records kept as the job goes, not reconstructed at handover.

The record backs it up. We have delivered city-centre bus infrastructure civils, S278 packages on major developments, an EV charging hub and campus infrastructure works, and replaced two footbridges with FRP structures on an eight-week programme, with temporary works over a live watercourse.

Most of our work comes from main contractors such as Kier, BAM Nuttall and Galliford Try, and from public authorities including North Somerset Council. Much of it is repeat business, which tells you how those jobs went. If you have a highways or infrastructure package anywhere in the South West or South Wales, we will price it, plan it and build it with one accountable team.