Packs · External works and landscaping · 01

25 documents · one purchase

Groundworks and drainage

The groundworkers: excavations, services, drainage and the records the ground demands.

£99the pack + VAT

25 documents — £274 bought one at a time. Helmet colours vary from site to site. This is a common convention, not a legal standard.

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£9925 documents, £3.96 each — £274 bought one at a time · ex VAT, added at checkout

  • Pay once — no subscription, nothing renews
  • Yours to keep, with every future revision free
  • Re-download any time from your downloads
  • No sales calls — a person answers email within one working day

Every document in this pack is approved for issue by its author — a director of a UK principal contractor, forty years in the industry, SMSTS. None has been independently reviewed, and each says so. Every future revision is free, and every document can be completed online — fill it in your browser, download it finished. Why we don’t say “compliant”.

In this pack

25 documents, assembled for external works and landscaping.

Assembled, not written for the sector — every document below is a standard document from the library. What the sector changes is which ones you need and the overlay that goes with them.

Excavation and Trenching preview KD-RAMS-GW-001

Excavation and Trenching

3 pages · 139 guided fields£19
Foundations and Pile Caps preview KD-RAMS-GW-002

Foundations and Pile Caps

3 pages · 138 guided fields£19
Drainage Installation and Connections preview KD-RAMS-GW-003

Drainage Installation and Connections

3 pages · 141 guided fields£19
Service Trenches and Ducting preview KD-RAMS-GW-004

Service Trenches and Ducting

3 pages · 127 guided fields£19
Compaction, Hardcore and Sub-Bases preview KD-RAMS-GW-005

Compaction, Hardcore and Sub-Bases

3 pages · 127 guided fields£19
Kerbing, Paving and Slabbing preview KD-RAMS-GW-006

Kerbing, Paving and Slabbing

3 pages · 133 guided fields£19
Reduced-Dig and Contaminated Ground preview KD-RAMS-GW-007

Reduced-Dig and Contaminated Ground

3 pages · 128 guided fields£19
Work Over or Near Water preview KD-RAMS-GW-008

Work Over or Near Water

4 pages · 158 guided fields£19
Setting Out and Levels — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-001

Setting Out and Levels — Quality Inspection Checklist

4 pages · 185 guided fields£7
Excavation and Formation — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-002

Excavation and Formation — Quality Inspection Checklist

4 pages · 197 guided fields£7
Backfill and Compaction — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-003

Backfill and Compaction — Quality Inspection Checklist

4 pages · 185 guided fields£7
Foundations — Trench and Pad — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-004

Foundations — Trench and Pad — Quality Inspection Checklist

5 pages · 224 guided fields£7
Ground-Floor Slab and DPM — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-005

Ground-Floor Slab and DPM — Quality Inspection Checklist

5 pages · 225 guided fields£7
Below-Ground Drainage — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-006

Below-Ground Drainage — Quality Inspection Checklist

4 pages · 209 guided fields£7
Below-Ground Services and Ducts — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-007

Below-Ground Services and Ducts — Quality Inspection Checklist

4 pages · 197 guided fields£7
Drainage Testing and CCTV — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-008

Drainage Testing and CCTV — Quality Inspection Checklist

4 pages · 193 guided fields£7
SuDS — Attenuation Tanks, Crates, Soakaways and Permeable Sub-Base — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-009

SuDS — Attenuation Tanks, Crates, Soakaways and Permeable Sub-Base — Quality Inspection Checklist

4 pages · 204 guided fields£7
Manholes and Inspection Chambers — Bases, Benching, Rings, Steps and Covers — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-010

Manholes and Inspection Chambers — Bases, Benching, Rings, Steps and Covers — Quality Inspection Checklist

4 pages · 206 guided fields£7
Interceptors, Separators, Pumping Stations and Below-Ground Tanks — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-011

Interceptors, Separators, Pumping Stations and Below-Ground Tanks — Quality Inspection Checklist

4 pages · 205 guided fields£7
Ground Gas and Radon Protection — Membrane, Venting and Verification — Quality Inspection Checklist preview KD-QA-GW-012

Ground Gas and Radon Protection — Membrane, Venting and Verification — Quality Inspection Checklist

4 pages · 198 guided fields£7
Excavation & Permit to Dig preview KD-PTW-EX-005

Excavation & Permit to Dig

4 pages · 112 guided fields£9
Excavation Inspection Record preview KD-INS-EX-002

Excavation Inspection Record

1 page · 110 guided fields£10
COSHH Assessment — Sewage and Drains preview KD-COSHH-BW-018

COSHH Assessment — Sewage and Drains

2 pages · 25 guided fields£7
COSHH Assessment — Silica Dust preview KD-COSHH-RS-001

COSHH Assessment — Silica Dust

2 pages · 25 guided fields£7
Toolbox Talk — Excavations and Buried Services — The Ground Fights Back preview KD-TBT-EX-015

Toolbox Talk — Excavations and Buried Services — The Ground Fights Back

2 pages · 41 guided fields£5

How it works

Four steps, in this order.

  1. 1

    Choose

    A single document, a bundle for one hazard, or a pack for your trade or sector. Pay once.

  2. 2

    Enter your site once

    Site, reference, address, client, principal contractor. Every document in the pack opens with them filled in.

  3. 3

    Add your logo

    Upload it once. It prints at the top of every page of every document you download.

  4. 4

    Download it finished

    Filled, flattened, licensed to your business. When the law moves, the revision is free.

What a pack is and is not

A pack is a shortlist, not a decision.

This is the set of documents a main contractor commonly asks for at this stage of the work in external works and landscaping. It is a description of what tends to be requested — not a determination of what your job requires. Your work may need fewer of these, or more, or something not on the list at all.

That judgement belongs to a competent person in your business who knows the site. Nothing here makes anyone compliant, and no template can.