Antler Construct: a Somerset
builder on one system.
Antler Construct Ltd builds extensions, barn conversions and whole-house renovations for homeowners across Somerset and the South West. Since October 2026 the business has run on Unibuild: a web portal for the office and a phone app for everyone on site.
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Homes, barns and extensions,
designed and built.
Antler Construct delivers full and part home renovations, barn conversions and extensions for homeowners. The team has built across the South West for more than 15 years, and the limited company was formed in 2018.
The design work is in-house too. Antler takes a scheme from the client’s brief through to construction, and its engineer prepares the structural calculations for Building Control and deals with the council.
Recent jobs show the range. At Combe Florey, a kitchen-diner extension needed excavation and a reinforced concrete retaining wall inside the house. At Over Stowey, a traditional farm building became living space, with new timber and steel. At Lower Aisholt, a double-storey extension went up with full-height glazing.
Each of those jobs carries its own drawings, risks and visiting trades, and the office keeps track of all of them at once.
The work and the records it needs
- Works
- Renovations, extensions and barn conversions
- Clients
- Homeowners across Somerset
- Design
- Drawings from the client’s brief
- Structure
- Calculations for Building Control
- Site records
- Clock-ins, RAMS, photographs, diaries and snags
Four problems domestic work
puts on the office.
Each one is common to renovation builders, and each one usually ends up on paper or in somebody’s inbox.
Several houses, one team
The same people can be on an extension near Taunton on Monday and a barn conversion by Wednesday. Hours written up on Friday land on whichever job somebody remembers.
A site that is somebody’s home
The family is often still living in the house. A RAMS copied from the last job does not mention this job’s excavation, its steel or the rooms still in use.
Trades in for one stage
Electricians, plumbers, plasterers and roofers come in for a few days each. Their insurance, cards and method statements need checking before they start, and are usually chased by email the week before.
Drawings, calculations and Building Control
A job collects drawings, revisions, structural calculations and council letters. Spread across an inbox, a van and a shared drive, the site can end up building from an old revision.
The working day,
recorded at the house.
On a renovation, the house is the site. Antler’s plans, clock-ins and briefings all start from it, so the timesheet and the job record are the same record.
A barn at the end of a farm track often has no phone signal. Clock-in still works there, because the phone keeps the scan with its time and sends it when signal returns. How site time records work.
Everyone knows which house.
Each person sees their own week in the app, with the house they are at each day. A change to the plan arrives as a notification.
The day starts with a scan.
The operative scans the QR poster at the house. The time lands on the timesheet against that job, and it cannot be changed or back-dated from the phone.
The RAMS is signed on the phone.
Everyone on the job reads the RAMS for that house, in their own language if they prefer, and signs it. A visiting trade signs through a link, with no app to install.
An accident is reported where it happened.
Accidents and near misses are reported from the phone, with photographs. If an injury is reportable under RIDDOR, the reporting window is flagged and the office is alerted by email and push notification.
The hours are ready to approve.
Anyone still clocked in at close of work is flagged to the office. Approved hours export for payroll, already set against the right job.
One house, one project,
every record on it.
Every job is a project, from a single kitchen extension to a full barn conversion.
The project holds the drawings and their revisions, the structural calculations, the Building Control paperwork and the photographs. Storage has no limit, and every file is copied to the firm’s own OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox. How document management works.
The project overview puts the whole job on one page, so nobody hunts through folders and phones for it. At handover, each snag is logged with a photograph and closed off with another.
How a job is arranged
- Client
- The homeowner and the address
- Design
- Drawings, with every revision kept
- Structure
- Calculations and Building Control documents
- Site
- Clock-ins, RAMS, diaries and photographs
- Handover
- Snags, certificates and final photographs
Checked before
anyone starts.
Four records carry most of the risk on a domestic job: the RAMS, the visiting trades, the kit and the toolbox talk.
A RAMS written for this house
The office picks a template and writes a short brief for this house. The AI drafts the RAMS from that template. A competent person reviews it, edits it and approves it before anyone is briefed.
How the AI RAMS builder worksVisiting trades checked first
Electricians, plumbers and other trades upload their insurance, accreditations and RAMS on the subcontractor portal. Expiry dates are checked every night, so a lapsed policy shows in the office before the trade arrives.
How the subcontractor portal worksPlant and tools on one register
Mixers, breakers, towers and hired plant sit on one register, with who has each item and when its next inspection is due. If a van is broken into, the serial numbers are already there.
How plant and tools are trackedToolbox talks signed at the house
A talk is given on site and signed on each person’s phone, or on the presenter’s. Anything raised becomes an action with an owner and a due date, and the office is reminded when the next talk is due.
How toolbox talks workFrom paper and inboxes
to one record.
| The usual way | At Antler |
|---|---|
| A timesheet filled in on Friday, from memory. | A scan at the house, with the time and the job recorded at the scan. |
| A clock-in app that stops working at the end of the farm track. | The scan keeps its time with no signal and is sent when the phone is back in signal. |
| A RAMS reused from another house. | A RAMS drafted for this house from a template, approved by a named person and signed on the phone. |
| A visiting trade’s insurance chased by email the week they start. | Insurance and accreditations uploaded by the trade, with expiry dates checked every night. |
| Drawings and calculations spread across an inbox, a van and a shared drive. | One project per house, with every file copied to the firm’s own drive. |
The rest of Antler,
on the same record.
One monthly figure covers every module and unlimited users. These six sit around the work above.
Where this came from.
These are Unibuild customers, written up by Unibuild. The public sources below cover who the businesses are; the account of the software is ours.