Specialists in systemised design and build for superstructures and façades
Systemised Design & Build
PCE’s Supply Chain Model
Digital Approach
Hybrid Materials
Sustainability
Sectors
HybriDfMA hyTower® System
Hybrid Frame System
HybriDfMA Living System
HybriDfMA Bespoke System
HybriDfMA Prisons System
HybriDfMA Custody System
Assembly Building C
Commercial Road
Kingston Townhouse
University of Warwick IBRB
Fulton & Fifth
Capella
PCE Ltd specialise in superstructure and façade design and build solutions. Utilising standardisation and repeatable design philosophies, we have created build systems that provide certainty of outcome and enhanced safety, quality, speed, and value across all construction sectors.
Through smart connectivity and structural flexibility, we create a customised kit-of-parts made up of a hybrid of structural materials. Components are pre-engineered offsite to meet the structural, aesthetic, and sustainability targets of each project.
PCE’s supply chain model offers improved flexibility in construction. By collaborating with the best manufacturing specialists across the UK and Europe, we have the freedom to select the best offsite manufacturers and materials based on each project’s distinct architectural and engineering requirements.
Whether it’s aesthetics, structural performance, sustainability, or scale, our approach ensures an adaptable, tailored solution.
Instantaneous unit tracking, informative dashboards, and intelligent digital reporting all feed into a ‘digital command centre’ that enables precise, rapid, and confident decision-making at critical moments. This digital excellence ensures our operations are coordinated, transparent, and predictable, delivering a superior design and build solution.
Empowered by the latest cuttingedge digital capabilities, PCE’s digital immersion ensures heightened and powerful collaboration and coordination across all phases of project delivery. Driven by automated, realtime data, project visibility has hit new heights.
Through common connection principles and with access to toptier offsite specialists, our structural solutions can easily accommodate a hybrid of structural materials, combining precast concrete, reinforced steel, and engineered timber. This means the right product is used for the right solution, tailored to specific structural, aesthetic, and sustainability targets.
At PCE, sustainability is at the core of everything we do. We actively seek innovative ways to operate more sustainably across the value chain, ensuring that our practices contribute to a greener future. This includes working with main contractors, clients, design specialists, and supply chain. As a carbon-neutral company with NCZ status, we are committed to reducing our environmental impact while delivering high-quality, efficient solutions.
Our DFMA build systems are designed to serve all build sectors, across both public and private clients. Custody & Custodial
Key Benefits:
• Up to 50% faster construction programme
• Progressive M&E installation and internal ‘fit-out’ just two levels below construction
• Passivhaus airtightness
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hyTower® is a HybriDfMA building system for high-rise structures up to 50 storeys tall. Offsite integration ensures weatherproofing kit-of-parts, such as integral façade.
Coupled with the absence of back-propping, use of hyTower® enables rapid fit-out and M&E installations, just two clear levels below the active construction level.
Key Benefits:
• Site deliveries reduced up to 50%
• Significantly increased control, predictability, and efficiency through offsite approach
• Hybrid component flexibility
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• adaptable supply chain
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PCE’s HybriDfMA Frame system enables the rapid and safe onsite assembly of unique structural frames and innovative façades through offsite design and component manufacturing.
This flexible ‘kitof-parts’ system can be easily configured to accommodate custom designs, ensuring both high quality and ease of assembly.
Key Benefits:
• 30% reduction in construction programme
• High level fire, thermal, vibration and acoustic resistance
• Onsite personnel reduced up to 80%
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Systemised DfMA delivery of accommodation structures and façades. Our offsite ‘kit-of-parts’ approach creates modern, functional living spaces with built-in fire and sound resistance and low operational energy needs, offering excellent value.
The HybriDfMA Living System’s modular design allows easy configuration to meet client requirements while ensuring effortless assembly.
Key Benefits:
• Configurable with existing designs
• Flexible supply chain optimises hybrid material selection
• Waste reduction up to 90%
Our Bespoke DfMA system means standardisation meets individuality. Taking elements from across our suite of DfMA build systems, Bespoke creates an innovative kit-of-parts and imaginative façades that delivers truly unique structural solutions. Components can be easily configured to suit unique designs ensuring ease of assembly, whilst providing the certainty of outcome and offsite efficiencies associated with our standardisation and repeatable design philosophies.
Key Benefits:
• Highly durable structures requiring minimal maintenance
• Standardised construction methodologies streamlines installation
• Up to 30% reduction in construction
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Designed to comply with the latest edition of the MoJ design guide and National Offender Management Service (NOMS), PCE’s Secure Prison is a platform DfMA solution.
With standardisation and repeatability at its core, Secure Prison provides a proven solution for scalable prison construction, delivered safely at speed, complete with offsite integration and coordination with M&E.
Key Benefits:
• Fast construction with 12 cells plus ancillary spaces constructed per week
• Reduced carbon through smart design
• Directly applied internal surface finishes
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PCE’s Secure-Custody system provides a Home Office-approved MMC category 2 superstructure solution for police custody suites. Using a kitof-parts approach, we deliver a highly refined cellular accommodation system with offsitemanufactured precast concrete components.
This platform design offers configurable components within defined rule sets, enabling bespoke layouts tailored to each client’s specific needs.
Key Metrics:
• 32 week construction programme
• 330 product deliveries to site
• 2,460 offsite manufactured components
• Assembled by 12 of PCE’s multi-skilled site operatives
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Building C of the central Bristol Assembly development is a 14-storey tower adjacent to the River Avon for property developer Bell Hammer.
The Hybrid Frame building provides 92,000 sq.ft. of office space in a very busy city centre location.
• Structurally delivered in just 17 weeks
• Completed with just 9,500 hours of activity on site
• Zero reportable accidents
• Deliveries to site were reduced by over 30%
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Working with developer Regal London, PCE designed and built the 14-storey aparthotel in Whitechapel, London using the hyTower® building system for lease to the StayCity Wilde hotel chain. The finished aparthotel contains 156 bedrooms over 13 levels with the Ground Floor being used as recreational areas for the users of the building.
• A 10,000m² Concrete Frame
• 2,150 components
• 40 week installation
• CO² footprint less than 180Kg of CO2/m² for the total building floor area
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The Townhouse Building at Kingston University represented a key milestone in its broader development towards flexible, interdisciplinary learning spaces linking to the wider community. This Bespoke building utilises the thermal mass within the concrete frame to regulate the internal environment whilst minimising energy usage.
Key Metrics:
• 1,400 precast components
• 23,000 hours accident free
• 850t concrete reduction
• 13 months from design to on-site completion
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The IBRB laboratory was commissioned by the University of Warwick to unite the separate schools of life sciences and medicine under one roof.
PCE’s Hybrid Frame system was chosen due its inherent structural performance, flexibility and speed of construction.
Key Metrics:
• Over 13,000 individual offsite manufactured components
• 100% recycled steel reinforcement
• Just 272 crane weeks
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The new mixed-use Wembley Waterside development includes 876 residential units along with 30,000 sq. ft of flexible commercial space across five blocks set to include retail, light industrial and leisure uses. The five blocks, built using the hyTower® system, range from 17-28 storeys high, all sited on a 2-3 storey podium.
Key Metrics:
• 18,000m²
• 4,200 components
• 200,000 man hours RIDDOR free
• Concept to completion in 24 months
Capella Laboratory, commissioned by Cambridge University provides a world-class Bioscience Research and Development facility to accommodate a diverse group of the world’s leading medical research organisations. Kier selected PCE’s Hybrid Frame approach with integrated façade as their chosen superstructure solution.
Key Metrics:
• 40 week on-site construction programme
• 1,250t concrete reduction
• 5,250 precast components (26,000t)
Mount Oswald accommodation is a cluster of five buildings containing over 700 student bedrooms using PCE’s Living System approach. The aspiration was to mix Georgian architecture with contemporary design to create a link between the existing buildings constructed in Durham.
