Built to work before it's built at all
Great engineering only comes from great design. We'll take your concepts from rough sketches to detailed CAD models and manufacturable solutions – built to work and built to last.
With decades of hands-on machining experience, plus a modern creative approach – our expert draughtsmen will translate your functional requirements into precision engineered solutions. We’ll define materials, tolerances, manufacturability, and assembly methods, validate concepts via simulations or prototypes, and produce a set of designs that tackle your problem from every angle.
- Concept development – Turning ideas into viable engineering solutions
- 3D CAD modelling – Detailed digital models using SolidWorks and AutoCAD
- Technical drawings – Manufacturing-ready documentation with full tolerances
- Design for manufacture (DFM) – Optimising designs for efficient production
- Prototype design – First-iteration models for testing and validation
- Reverse engineering – Recreating designs from existing parts or assemblies
- Structural calculations – Load analysis and strength verification
- Design consultancy – Expert guidance on materials, methods, and feasibility.
Nothing moves until we have a firm grasp on exactly what you need from us. First thing's first, we sit down and tackle your problem together. What does your fabrication actually need to do? Where will it operate? What constraints are you working within? How can we solve this challenge differently to your competitors?
We develop initial concepts and 3D models. This is where we can start getting creative and looking at innovative ways to meet the brief. We'll explore different approaches, test ideas digitally, and identify the optimal solution. You'll see visual models and technical options which are all manufacturable. We iterate quickly until the design direction is right.
Engineering the details: exact dimensions, tolerances, material specifications, surface finishes. We design with our workshop and machinery in mind – so that we know exactly what is achievable, in what timeframe, and at what cost. We double test and triple check everything in this final stage of development.
You receive complete technical documentation: manufacturing drawings, 3D files, material lists, installation guidance. Everything required to build it exactly as engineered. Clear, comprehensive design data ready for production.
Materials
- Mild steel
- Stainless steel (304, 316)
- Aluminium
- Galvanised steel
- Powder-coated finishes
- Painted steel
- Specialist alloys (on request)
Processes
- SolidWorks 3D CAD
- AutoCAD technical drawing
- Finite element analysis (FEA)
- Sheet metal design
- Weldment design
- Structural steel design
- DFM optimisation
- Digital prototyping
We design for manufacture from the outset, preventing annoying late-stage reworks or solutions that fail at manufacture. Costs are controlled by applying DFM early – removing complexity, simplifying assemblies, and optimising material use. Every part is fully defined within specific tolerances, materials, and finishes. As designers and manufacturers, all our decisions are based on real workshop capability and hard-proven experience.
Your design questions, answered
Specifying metalwork isn't always straightforward. Here are the questions we hear most often — and the honest answers.
As much or as little as you want. Some clients hand us a concept and leave us to develop the full technical package. Others want to review every revision. Either way, we assign a single point of contact on our side so you're not chasing updates across three different people.
We can do both. If you need us to take ownership of the design — material selection, structural calculations, detailing — we will. If your consultants have already produced the drawings and you need us to review them for manufacturability before we start cutting, we'll do that too. We'll tell you upfront if something in the design won't work on the shop floor.
We're used to it. NHS and construction projects regularly involve architects, M&E contractors, main contractors, and end users — all with different priorities. Our design team coordinates across those groups, manages drawing revisions centrally, and makes sure everyone is working from the same information. We've done this enough times to know where the miscommunication usually happens.
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