Signature street furniture
Bespoke bollards, bench ends and seating walls carrying a scheme's identity. Usually a split mould for the undercut geometry, with a silicone face for the relief.
For public realm projects · Street furniture and place-making
Tooling for the street furniture a town actually remembers.
Bespoke bollards, bench ends, planters and paving inserts for regeneration schemes. Designed with the landscape architect, cast by your precaster, and built to be reordered when a lorry reverses into one in five years' time.
What matters to you
What matters on a public realm scheme.
The design intent has to survive to site. A landscape architect draws a bench end with a particular edge radius and a relief motif that ties to the local story. The mould is what carries that intent from the drawing to four hundred castings on the street. We work to the design team's drawings and send physical pattern approvals back to them, not just to the contractor.
The pieces live outside and take abuse. Vehicle strikes, skateboards, grit, frost and the odd angle grinder. Arrises need a sensible radius, reliefs need to be deep enough to survive weathering, and the mould has to produce a dense, well-compacted face every time.
Replacements are guaranteed to be needed. Councils want to know that when a bollard is taken out by a delivery van, a matching one can be cast. That's why the drawing, pattern and material spec stay on our file for the life of the scheme.
How your work looks
Three shapes of public realm work.
Planters and tree surrounds
Large-format planters and tree-pit edges cast in the precaster's yard. Built with drainage and lifting points designed in, not drilled afterwards.
Paving relief and inserts
Inlaid relief panels, wayfinding motifs, heritage trails set into the paving. Shallow relief polyurethane tooling that runs well.
Services that fit
Services this sector reaches for most often.
How the first conversation goes
How the first conversation usually goes.
Most public realm enquiries reach us from one of three people: the landscape architect at design stage, the main contractor at procurement, or the precaster who's won the package. Any of the three is fine. We'll ask who else is in the chain so the drawing approvals go to the right person.
Send the furniture drawings and the quantity schedule. We'll come back with a route per piece (one-piece, split, or silicone-faced), what we'd need from the design team to build a pattern, and how the approval stage would work.
Where the design is still moving, we can build a pattern early for a physical review. It's a quicker way for a design team to agree an edge radius than trading PDFs.
At a glance
The idea in a picture.
How a two-part mould fits together
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FAQs
Questions we hear from this sector.
Can you work directly with our landscape architect?
Yes. We prefer it. Pattern approvals go faster when the person who drew the piece can see and touch it.
Who owns the mould on a public scheme?
Whoever pays for it — usually the precaster or the contractor. We'll note on file who the client authority is so replacements can be traced years later.
Can you incorporate community artwork into a relief?
Yes. Hand-drawn or school-project artwork can be scanned and turned into a relief pattern. We'll advise on minimum line width so it survives weathering.
Do you cast the concrete pieces too?
No. We make the tooling. Your precaster casts. We're happy to recommend precasters we've worked with if you don't already have one.
What about anti-skate or anti-climb detail?
It can be built into the mould — skate stoppers, sloped tops, chamfered arrises. Better designed in than bolted on.
Get in touch
Send us a photograph of the panel or the elevation.
One photograph tells us what surface you're chasing, and one line about the mix tells us what silicone or polyurethane will survive it.
Real people, a real workshop
You deal with the people who make it.
No call centre and no middlemen. When you contact TCI Construction, you speak to the team who design, build and check your mould.
- A real Warwickshire workshopUnit 15, Waterloo Park, Bidford-on-Avon, Alcester B50 4JG.
- Real people on the phoneCall the team on 01789 224228, Monday to Friday.
- The same team on every jobDesign, production and aftercare come from the people you see here.
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