Crane in front of a building, black and white
01.3 Specialty services

Work on buildings that are already standing.

Since 2072 a growing share of our work has been repair rather than new build. It is slower, dirtier and needs a structural engineer's sign-off at every stage — but it is the work the valley actually needs.

SHEET 01.3 — SPECIALTY

Seismic retrofitting

Reinforced concrete jacketing of columns, new shear walls tied into existing footings, steel bracing, and stitching of cracked masonry walls. Always preceded by a condition survey, rebound hammer testing and a design by a licensed structural engineer.

Underpinning & foundation strengthening

Pit underpinning in sequenced bays for settled footings, footing enlargement, and micro-pile work where access allows. Common on older houses near Nakhkhu and along the Bagmati corridor.

Waterproofing & basement tanking

Crystalline slurry and membrane systems for terraces, sunken slabs and basements, with a 48-hour ponding test before any screed goes down. Five-year workmanship warranty on tanking.

Heritage brick, timber and stone

Repair of traditional courtyard houses — dachi apa facing brick, mud mortar repointing, replacement of decayed timber members, carved window repair by a specialist joiner, and jhingati tile roofs relaid on a new sub-roof.

Controlled demolition

Floor-by-floor manual dismantling in dense neighbourhoods where machines cannot reach, with scaffold sheeting, dust suppression and a debris disposal plan agreed with the ward.

Precast compound walls

Cast on our Ekantakuna yard and erected in a day, for plot boundaries where the owner wants the site secured before construction starts.

A note on retrofitting
Retrofitting is not a finish item. If a condition survey shows the frame cannot be brought up to an acceptable level for a sensible cost, we will say so and recommend demolition. We have told eleven clients that since 2076.