General contractor since 1988
Halden builds commercial, residential and civil projects worth £5m to £250m, with our own site teams from groundworks to handover.
Selected work
Every project below was built by Halden as main contractor. Sizes, value bands and programme lengths are the final figures at handover.
01 / Commercial
Eastport waterfront · Completed 2024
A 24-storey office tower with a curved unitised facade, built on a former dock with a working quay wall on two sides.
02 / Housing
Larkfield, North Dene · Completed 2023
Two apartment blocks around a shared courtyard, with 62 affordable homes handed to the housing association in the first phase.
03 / Infrastructure
Tarn estuary · Opened 2022
A cable-stayed road bridge for the regional transport authority, built from both banks with the shipping channel kept open throughout.
04 / Commercial
Wexley business district · Completed 2025
A six-storey headquarters with a timber-hybrid frame and external louvres, built on a tight plot between two occupied buildings.
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What we do
We take single-stage and two-stage tenders, design and build, and framework call-offs. Each sector has its own director and its own pre-construction team.
Offices, laboratories, retail and mixed-use schemes, from shell and core to fully fitted floors.
Apartment blocks, build-to-rent and affordable homes for developers and housing associations.
Bridges, highways structures, flood defences and enabling works for public bodies and utilities.
How we work
The same project director stays with you through all four. You get a written report every two weeks and a site walk every month.
We meet on site, review your drawings and budget, and tell you within ten working days whether we can build it for the money.
2 weeks
Our estimators and planners price the design, flag buildability risks and agree a fixed programme and contract sum with you.
8–16 weeks
One site manager runs the job from first excavation to final clean. Cost and programme are reported against the contract every fortnight.
Per programme
We snag floor by floor before you do, hand over manuals and as-built drawings, and return at 6 and 12 months to close out defects.
12-month aftercare
About Halden
Two thirds of the trades on a Halden site are on our payroll, not a subcontractor's.
Halden started in 1988 as a concrete frame contractor with a crew of nine. We still pour our own frames, and we now run 14 to 18 live sites at any time across commercial, housing and civil work.
Our site managers stay with one project from start to finish, and every client has the project director's mobile number.
“Halden fixed the programme in month two and held it for the next twenty-nine. We let the first floors at Meridian Quay eleven days ahead of schedule.”
Request a quote
Send a few lines about the site, the size and your dates. An estimator will reply within two working days.
