What you can hold us to
Six commitments, each one checkable.
Project management is sold on trust, which is easy to assert and hard to evidence. So every line below points at something you can verify — a public record, a qualification, the way the company is structured, or something a client has already written about working with us.
A registered company since 2006
W. Cawrey & Co. Limited has been a registered limited company continuously since February 2006. You can look the record up before you ever pick up the phone — we'd rather you did.
Companies House no. 05724752 · incorporated 28 February 2006 · status: active.
Trained in construction management
This isn't a trade that drifted into managing. Will holds a BSc (Hons) in Construction Management and spent 2000 to 2005 managing the construction of around 500 new properties for a large building firm before forming the company.
BSc (Hons) Construction Management · five years of large-scale new-build construction management, 2000-2005.
We work for you, not the builder
We're appointed directly by the homeowner and never hold the building work ourselves. When a cost, a substitution or a shortcut needs challenging, our interest sits on your side of the table.
"We took the decision to employ Will as Construction Manager…" — from a client testimonial published on our own site, no name given.
You always know where the project stands
Thorough communication with you, your architect, building control and the neighbours is the actual deliverable. One point of contact, one set of updates, no chasing.
"Will clearly has an excellent knowledge…" — from a client testimonial published on our own site, no name given.
The stress is the thing we're removing
The company was formed to take the stress out of building projects and hand back a quality home on time, to budget and to a high standard. If a project with us feels like a second job, we haven't done ours.
"Will made our project as stress-free as it could possibly be." — from a client testimonial published on our own site, no name given.
Harpenden and St Albans, on purpose
We keep to the two towns our projects are in, because management that can't get to site quickly isn't management. If you're outside that area, we'll say so rather than take the appointment and stretch.
Our recent projects are all in Harpenden and St Albans; the office is at 419 Luton Road, Harpenden AL5 3QE.
The way we work
One person accountable, start to finish.
We work for you, not the builder
We're appointed by the homeowner, so when a cost or a shortcut needs challenging, our interest is the same as yours. That's the structural difference between a project manager and a main contractor.
Construction management, properly trained
Will holds a BSc (Hons) in Construction Management and managed new-build construction at scale from 2000 to 2005 before forming the company in 2006. The discipline behind a big site, applied to one house.
A small team, no layers
Will runs the projects, Lucy Griffiths runs the contracts, budgets and invoices from the office, and a site manager keeps the day-to-day moving. You always know who you're speaking to.
Harpenden and St Albans only
We deliberately keep to the two towns our projects are in, because project management only works if someone can actually be on site — not fit you in around a two-hour drive.
We work alongside architects, structural engineers, building control and interior designers — either people we've worked with before or your own chosen team, if a project already has one.
Every line above points at something you can check — the public company record, a qualification, how the company is structured, or what a client has already written.
W. Cawrey & Co. Limited · Companies House no. 05724752 · incorporated 28 February 2006 · status: active