A self-delivering civil engineering contractor for the UK's solar and battery storage sector — earthworks, foundations, cable, utility and DNO infrastructure, roads and restoration. Built by our own teams, and looked after long after handover.
What we doHWBC delivers the groundworks and civil infrastructure that solar and battery energy storage developments depend on — and we self-deliver it. With our own workforce, plant and machinery, we take work on directly rather than subcontracting it out.
That means tighter control over quality, programme and safety, a single accountable team from first cut to handover — and a contractor still on hand to maintain the site once it's running.
The full civil scope behind a renewable project — and the maintenance that keeps it performing.
Site prep, earthworks, drainage, foundations, cable trenching, roads and trackways — the groundworks a project is built on.
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Transformer and switchgear foundations, earthing, cable, DNO connections and self-contained control rooms.
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Planned and reactive maintenance — tracks, drainage, fencing, vegetation and asset support — from the team that builds them.
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Reinstatement, seeding and habitat enhancement that meets planning and biodiversity conditions.
Restore the land →There's a real advantage in having the firm that built a site look after it. We know where the cables run, how the drainage was laid and where the ground takes load — because we put it there. That means faster diagnosis, fewer surprises, and maintenance that's right first time.
It's why a build for HWBC rarely ends at energisation — the infrastructure we construct, we're equipped to maintain for the long term.
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Access track · East Sussex
Cable trenching · Oxfordshire
Drainage · East Sussex
Foundations · Cambridgeshire
Utility · W. Northants