Selected work
A selection of recent and delivered work — commercial, education, agricultural and private residential — each taken end to end, with the groundworks and civils self-performed in-house.
Commercial
At Casa Hotel in Chesterfield, the existing outdoor terrace serving Barça bar was converted into an enclosed, all-year dining room. Forté stripped out the old structure and rebuilt from the ground up as principal contractor — a state-of-the-art glazed pergola with sliding windows, set on new foundations.
The groundworks were ours. We excavated and laid the foundations and slab, installed the pergola, then self-performed the underfloor heating and herringbone tiling — matched to the hotel's existing floors — and made good the surrounding paving. One team, frame to finish.
Specialist external works for the showroom of a national premium retail brand — a hidden drainage system installed, the old tiling stripped out, and the surface prepared and re-laid in large-format porcelain.
Built to last underfoot. The surface was prepared with anti-crack matting before the new porcelain went down, finished with epoxy grout — a hard-wearing, watertight result for a high-traffic retail forecourt.
Education
A leading independent school in Doncaster has trusted Forté with a rolling programme of works across its campus over two years — sports fencing, road and drainage upgrades, barriers and signals, courtyards and landscaping, bespoke timber shelters, and classroom and bathroom upgrades. All delivered around a live, operational school, with the groundworks and civils self-performed.
Agricultural
A wagyu beef farm needed a new cattle housing building and a silage clamp, with drainage and tanks to contain the effluent run-off. Forté delivered it from survey and design through to the finished structure.
Self-performed from the ground up — the concrete bases, the drainage and effluent containment, the silage clamp walls and the steel portal frames, all by our own teams.
An existing outbuilding renovated and built out into a bespoke boarding cattery — a new concrete base for sixteen pens, with an access path and landscaping to open the site up.
Survey to finish, in-house. The groundworks and new concrete base, the bespoke timber pen runs, and the hard and soft landscaping — all self-performed.
Private & residential
A Bawtry property dating to 1820, largely unmodernised for over fifty years, taken on as a whole-house renovation under a single contractor — seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, a new kitchen, a renewed annexe and top floor, and the gardens, landscaping and driveway entrance.
The floors were the heart of it. We removed the existing ground floors throughout — timber and solid alike — and rebuilt them in fibre-reinforced concrete with insulation and underfloor heating across the whole footprint, then installed new boilers and utility connections for both the main house and the annexe. The groundworks and floor build-up were ours, self-performed rather than passed down a chain.
From Forté's decade of high-end residential work in France: the complete conversion of a rural barn — its neighbouring cottage unlived-in since the Second World War — into a bespoke luxury home, with the restored cottage run as a gîte.
Taken from A to Z. New drainage and full groundworks, landscaping, a swimming pool, and a geothermal heating system feeding underfloor heating throughout — with solar-backed hot water and Italian tiling across the build. New roofs went on both buildings.
Bathrooms from our private residential work, finished to a high standard — full-height tiling, walk-in showers, stone basins, oak units and backlit mirrors. Bathroom upgrades also formed part of the programme at the independent school.
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