STEPNELL Building and Civil Engineering

Children from two Portland schools learned important safety lessons from the company building their new state-of-the-art school.

Stepnell has been awarded a £6.3 million contract by The Orders of St John Care Trust to build a new residential care home in Cheltenham.

Stepnell is celebrating achieving a trio of internationally-recognised management system standards at its Rugby head office and sites.

Rugby-based construction and civil engineering firm Stepnell has appointed Terry Hill as senior project manager.

Construction company Stepnell is helping three generations of a family from Weymouth continue a tradition of 250 years by employing them as plasterers.

£1.6 million project to create a new crematorium in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, has been handed over one month ahead of schedule.

Construction company Stepnell has been selected by Dorset County Council to build a new £5.7 million primary school in Portland which is set to play a key role in the 2012 Olympic Games.

Kevin Farnfield, who lives in Broadstone, was presented with a shield, a trophy and a bottle of champagne by Stepnell managing director Mark Wakeford to mark his achievement.

A student from the University of Plymouth is being given the chance to build up his practical construction experience through a year-long work placement with construction and civil engineering firm Stepnell.

Construction company Stepnell has received a bronze Considerate Constructors Scheme award for its sensitive and environmentally-friendly approach to work on a pioneering new college building in Leominster, Herefordshire.

Construction company Stepnell has been selected to design and build a pioneering new £3.9 million medical centre in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, for Buckinghamshire Primary Care Trust.

Construction and civil engineering firm Stepnell has strengthened its senior management team by promoting local man Charles Hicks to the role of commercial manager.

The construction industry in the West Midlands will begin a slow recovery in 2011, but could still face difficulties arising from the Government’s plans to tackle the economic crisis – that’s the view of one of the region’s top construction bosses.

Rugby-based construction and civil engineering firm Stepnell has reinforced its commitment to reducing its carbon footprint by recruiting experienced construction professional Hania Knox to oversee its drive to go ‘paperless’.

On 22nd November 2010 the 'Stepnell Integrated Schools Team' won the National Constructing Excellence 'Integration and Collaborative' Award for it's efforts on the Minster College Project, Leominster.

On Saturday 15th May 2010 the West Midlands Fire Service staged a crane rescue situation on Stepnell’s Grange Road, Retirement Apartments project in Solihull.

While working on educational projects for the Herefordshire Council, Stepnell has developed a consistent and highly effective team, which is delivering a major work experience programme, upskilling employees across the team and achieving enhanced performance and profitability through the same team being engaged on successive projects.

Stepnell is part of the successful consortium appointed as preferred bidder for the South Staffs Fire Stations PFI project. Stepnell will secure £14m of the work on the construction and refurbishment of five fire stations.

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Stepnell has started work as principal contractor and design lead on this £20m new Building Schools for the Future Pathfinder. Aimed to have the best possible learning environment for lease environmental impact this new school in being built in very confined working space adjacent to the existing and occupied facilities.

In a tie-up with a doctor’s surgery, the Orders of St. John Care Trust and Brackley Investments, Stepnell Ltd has built a complex on the outskirts of Malmesbury that includes a new Medical Centre with pharmacy, an eighty bed care home with day centre and 28 very sheltered apartments. This development has received high praise and was officially opened by HRH The Prince of Wales in November.

Stepnell’s PFI school’s contract that shows our ability to fund, design, construct and manage a large project with high risks. Stepnell’s technical understanding led to an exemplar design that uses thermal mass and forced ventilation to minimise the energy consumption at the School while delivering.