Forté Construction
Principal contractor · Residential & commercial · Yorkshire, Notts & Lincs
Forté Construction builds and renovates high-end residential and commercial projects alike — every project managed from the first survey to the final handover by one experienced team, accountable for the whole job from start to finish.
Why Forté
Most projects pass through a chain — a main contractor who manages trades, who manage subcontractors. Every layer adds margin, distance and someone else to chase when something slips.
We work differently. One experienced team manages your project from the first survey through design, build and finishing to the final handover. You deal directly with the people running the job — not a chain of subcontractors — whether it's a home or a commercial building.
The result is a single point of accountability, fewer interfaces, and a project that moves at the pace it should.
What we do
New builds, extensions, renovations and conversions for private clients — high-end residential work and sensitive restorations, delivered by a team that has done it for decades.
Schools, hotels, developer and commercial projects — new build, extension and refurbishment, planned around live sites and delivered to fixed handover dates.
Survey, design, programme, site management, build, quality checks and close-out — the whole job run in-house by one experienced team, so nothing falls between trades.
Who we build for
We work directly with the people who own and commission buildings — not through procurement portals. That direct relationship is how projects stay clear, quick and accountable.
New builds, extensions, renovations and barn conversions for private clients — decades of high-end residential work, with one experienced team accountable from first survey to final finish.
Hotels, developer and commercial projects delivered as one managed job rather than coordinated across a chain — built to programme and to fixed handover dates.
Extensions, new facilities and refurbishment delivered around term times and live campuses, with the disruption planning that working in a school demands.
Sheds, hard standing, drainage and rural infrastructure for landowners and farm businesses — long-standing relationships built on repeat work.
Track record
Delivered large-scale construction projects for a leading independent school, working within a live campus environment.
Appointed as preferred contractor for showroom installations on behalf of a national premium retail brand.
Built a civil construction business from start-up to significant annual revenue inside three years, securing contracts with public authorities and national developers.
Selected work
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.
One team, frame to finish. Forté managed the whole job — new foundations and slab, the glazed pergola, underfloor heating and herringbone tiling matched to the hotel's existing floors, and made good the surrounding paving. A single point of contact from survey to handover.
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 planned and managed by one team around a live, operational school, to fixed handover dates each time.
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. Forté managed the whole renovation — removing the existing ground floors throughout and rebuilding them in fibre-reinforced concrete with insulation and underfloor heating across the footprint, then new boilers and utility connections for both the main house and the annexe. One team, accountable from strip-out to finish.
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 external works, 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.
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Whether it's a school extension, a commercial development or a private build, we'll give you a straight answer on whether we're the right contractor for it.
