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Design Build Maintain Services

Waterscape specialists offering comprehensive design, permitting, renovation and construction services for your landscape and water-related projects. Balancing planning and permitting needs, with ecology and environmental needs, to enhance the landscape.

Our Services Include

Our services include planning, permitting, design consultancy, funding, waste management, hydrology, ecology, archaeology, structures and drainage engineering, ground and water investigations, abstraction and impound licences, water quality, topographic and bathometric surveying, CAD designs and modelling, construction and maintenance.

Whatever your sector, we can give you peace of mind by providing a full design-build-maintain service. If our in-house team of experts needs support, we have a wealth of knowledge within our network to tap into, providing you with a seamless service.

Working With Us

Working with a design-build package means you can be confident that not only will the design achieve your desired outcome, but it will be physically achievable within budget and the landscape.

With over 40 years of experience in a wide range of projects, we are experienced at identifying the path of least resistance, navigating constraints and, where necessary, challenging the limitations of the planning system.

MWE undertakes a wide range of projects from lakes, landforms, formal water features, fountains and pumping, water controls, wetland habitats and lake dredging, flood management, river restoration, erosion and revetment solutions.

Design Services

We will design an achievable and suitable design not only to suit your budget, but to suit the landscape, planning restrictions, environment, and your desired outcome.

Miles Water Engineering will create a design to achieve the relevant planning approval, focusing on biodiversity and the natural habitat whilst enhancing the landscape.

With over 40 years of experience in a wide range of projects, including conservation lakes, designer landforms, formal water features, fountains and pumping, water controls, wetland habitats and lake dredging, we are the partner of choice.

Surveying Services

Miles Water has been surveying for over 40 years for a wide range of clients across the UK.

Our survey work includes: Private Gardens, Country Estates, Agricultural Fields, Ponds and Lakes, de-silting and maintenance, Wetlands, Riverbanks and As-Built schemes.

These surveys fall into four main categories.

  • Topographic Surveys:These describe existing site levels and features.
  • Bathometric Surveys:(Water Surveys). These are used to identify the depth of water and the volumes of silt within water bodies.
  • Earthworks / Volume Surveys:These are used to identify the volumes of material available in spoil heaps.
  • As-Built Surveys:These are used to describe the results of a completed project.

The surveyed features include:

  • Ground Levels.
  • Permanent and temporary buildings/structures.
  • Road path, track features.
  • Visible boundary features, including walls, fences, hedges, and gates.
  • Street furniture: bollards, lamp posts, playground equipment.
  • Trees: [minimum trunk diameter (at 1m above ground level) to be surveyed 0.1m], wooded areas, limits of vegetation, and feature trees.
  • Water features: watercourses, water level, lakes (lake edge, lake bed and silt top), streams, reservoirs, bridges, fountains, pipework, culverts, drains, pavements, kerbs.
  • Earth works: bank bottom, bank top, hilltops, depressions and saddles (spot heights), mounds, spoil heaps, retaining wall: base and top, sloping masonry, terraces.
  • Services: As visible at the time of the survey, defined by cover level, power lines.

Out Clients

Whilst National Trust, English Heritage, RSPB and Royal Parks are prominent on our client list, we pride ourselves on working across all sectors, both public and private, grant or self-funded.

Our Design Consultancy is suitable for local authorities, utility providers, charities, land management, architects, leisure and tourism, and private owners.

Why Work With Miles Water Engineering?

Responsive and sympathetic designs to enhance the environment and landscape

Experts in biodiversity and landscape management

Creative problem-solving to deliver projects on budget and on time

Designs and drawings at all stages of work from inception to construction

Over 40 years of experience, providing top-quality customer service and project management

Flexible service where the needs of the client always come first

We provide bespoke projects. We problem-solve to embrace opportunities and overcome constraints.

Our team of trained and experienced professionals, using the latest technology to ensure high precision, reliable and cost-effective projects every time.

Free Consultancy and Quote (no obligation quotations). We are always looking to start and build new relationships.

Phone

(+44) 1359 242356

Address

Miles Water Engineering Ltd
School House Farm
Great Ashfield
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP31 3HJ