Civil Engineering
Battery Energy Storage (BESS) Infrastructure
The foundations, groundworks and civil infrastructure that BESS installations sit on — engineered to carry the load and self-delivered by our own teams.
Get in TouchThe foundations, groundworks and civil infrastructure that BESS installations sit on — engineered to carry the load and self-delivered by our own teams.
Get in TouchBattery energy storage units are heavy, sensitive and built to stand for years — so the civil engineering underneath them has to be right. Foundations have to carry concentrated loads and stay stable, hardstandings have to take delivery and craneage, and the surrounding infrastructure has to be built to the same standard as the rest of the connection.
HWBC delivers that civil scope — reinforced foundations and bases for battery units, inverters and switchgear, the ground around them, and the infrastructure that ties a storage installation into the wider site — all with our own workforce, plant and machinery.
Robust reinforced concrete foundations and bases, engineered to carry battery units and stay stable long term.
Foundations for inverters, transformers, switchgear and control kiosks associated with the storage system.
Clearance, grading and formation to prepare the ground for a storage installation.
Load-bearing surfaces for delivery, installation and maintenance access.
Ducting, trenching and cable routes connecting the storage units into the site.
Surface-water drainage, containment civils, access roads and trackways around the compound.
A BESS installation is only as reliable as the ground it stands on. Settlement, poor drainage or an under-engineered base can undermine an expensive asset — so the foundations aren’t a commodity, they’re part of the system’s long-term integrity.
Because HWBC self-delivers the full civil scope, a single accountable team builds the infrastructure to a consistent standard and to programme.
Foundations · Cambridgeshire
HWBC built the reinforced concrete foundations for a combined switchgear and transformer unit — rebar cages and column formwork through to a finished base with cast-in duct entries — then prepared and supported the crane lift that set the unit in place. The same foundation engineering underpins our BESS base work.
Column formwork
Crane liftFinished base
Poured bases
Rebar cage
Base pour