We’ve spent six decades delivering public sector buildings across the Midlands, North West and Wales. Our directly employed teams are behind new schools and colleges, fire and ambulance stations, leisure facilities and civic buildings that add real value to their communities, delivered through the compliant frameworks the public sector relies on.
Our experience means we’re set up for how the public sector really buys. We’re pre-qualified, accredited and on compliant frameworks, so procurement is straightforward and easy to audit from the start.
We build schools, colleges and SEND facilities across the Midlands, including new builds, expansion and refurbishment, often while the school carries on as normal.
Whether it’s a new teaching block, a hall or a full-school refurbishment, we work to the same tight academic-year deadlines every client faces. We plan the job in phases, keep clear segregation in place and use safeguarding-aware, DBS-checked site teams, so pupils and staff stay safe and lessons can continue around us.
McPhillips delivered this design & build project for a new two storey special educational needs secondary school accommodating 60 pupils as…
Read case studyWe build fire, police and ambulance facilities to the operational and security standards the emergency services rely on.
Appliance bays, training spaces, secure yards and 24/7 buildings are designed and built so crews can respond without compromise. Our £8.5M Telford community fire station is a good example — handed over four weeks ahead of programme with zero RIDDORs across the build.
We are proud to build council offices, libraries, civic centres and community buildings at the heart of the towns we serve.
Civic buildings often mix heritage fabric, public access and day-to-day operation. We handle sensitive refurbishment of listed and ageing stock alongside new community facilities, keeping services running throughout. And because we work through compliant public sector frameworks, with clear processes and full transparency, civic clients get the audit-friendly delivery they need.
We deliver care settings and extra-care living schemes to the regulatory and infection-control standards these environments demand.
From extra-care apartments to day-care and community health facilities, we create places that must be safe, accessible and dignified for the people who use them. Infection control, accessibility and fire-safety requirements are built in from the start, often on constrained or occupied sites where services need to keep running.
We build sports, community and cultural buildings that bring people together.
Leisure centres, sports pavilions, community hubs and cultural venues come with demanding services, big spans and public-facing finishes. We deliver the cost certainty and programme discipline which matters from day one when a scheme is grant or partnership funded, and get involved early where it helps.
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Built for the long term.
What a project leaves behind matters just as much as the building itself. That’s why we set clear social value targets at the start of every contract — including local jobs, training, supply chain spend and community benefit — and report against them throughout.