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What KBS actually does

KBS Engineering and Transportation Services has been building, supervising, and supplying civil works in Guyana since 2020: twelve completed projects, 35+ clients, 100% locally owned and Local Content certified. The six services below are what we are asked for most. Where the work is already on the ground you can see the completed and supervised projects, and the people behind it are on the about KBS Engineering page.

Civil Engineering & Structural Designs

We design in AutoCAD and hand over accurate, detailed, efficient plans: drawings that minimise errors on site and maximise constructability, so the crew is not solving the drawing while it is solving the building. The service covers site development blueprints, structural analysis, and architectural design, plus the design support that carries through to infrastructure construction, structural works, and bridge rehabilitation once the drawings are in the field.

What this includes

  • Site development blueprints: layout, levels, and setting-out drawings for the plot before anything is poured.
  • Structural analysis and detailing: member sizing, reinforcement layout, and load checks for slabs, beams, and foundations.
  • Architectural design: plans and elevations coordinated against the structural set so the two agree.
  • Buildable AutoCAD drawing sets: dimensioned and revision-marked, issued in a form a site team can work from.
Civil works under construction during a laboratory facility expansion completed by KBS Engineering
Civil works on the laboratory facility expansion (built by KBS).
Completed rigid pavement road built by KBS Engineering at Diamond, East Bank Demerara
Rigid pavement works at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (built by KBS).

Road Construction

Durable road construction, earthworks, paving, and rehabilitation for public and private-sector infrastructure: road preparation, rigid pavement works, asphaltic concrete placement, drainage coordination, and the field delivery that ties them together. KBS has completed rigid pavement at Diamond and Providence on the East Bank Demerara corridor and an asphaltic concrete road at Haslington Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara.

What this includes

  • Rigid pavement (concrete road): sub-base preparation, steel reinforcement placement, and structural concrete pours built for heavy vehicle traffic.
  • Asphaltic concrete surfacing: as delivered on the Haslington Housing Scheme road, East Coast Demerara.
  • Scarification and sand filling: breaking up and rebuilding a failed formation before the new pavement goes down.
  • Road marking and finishing: the last pass that hands a lane back to traffic.

See the completed road projects

Engineering Consultancy

A growing share of our work is technical support on sites other parties are building: we supervise, check, and sequence the work so it meets specification on the ground. That means construction planning, project management, and practical field guidance for civil works and logistics-led infrastructure: the engineer on the ground when a client needs one, without KBS holding the construction contract.

What this includes

  • Supervision of works built by others: independent checks that what is being built matches what was specified.
  • Construction sequencing: stage-by-stage planning so trades, pours, and deliveries land in the right order.
  • Field guidance: structural checks, deck-floor preparation, and coordination for upper levels as the build climbs.
  • Technical support to the client: a straight read on progress, quality, and what the next stage needs.
Two-storey residential building at Providence, East Bank Demerara, under KBS Engineering technical supervision
Under our supervision: two-storey build at Providence, EBD. Built by others; KBS provides the technical guidance.

Tender and Bid Preparation

We prepare tenders end to end: scope documentation, technical narratives, bill-of-quantity take-off, pricing, and the finished document combined and submitted on time. Every part of it is backed by people who have actually delivered the works being described, so the submission reads as complete, measurable, and defensible when an evaluator opens it.

What this includes

  • Scope documentation: the works written out in the structure the tender asks for, nothing assumed.
  • Technical narratives: method statements and construction approach explaining how the work will actually be done.
  • Bill-of-quantity take-off: quantities measured off the drawings, priced line by line.
  • Pricing and costing: rates built up against real delivery experience, not guessed at from a catalogue.
  • Company documentation: CVs, compliance papers, and the supporting record an evaluator asks for.
  • Combined and submitted: the whole document assembled, checked against the requirements, and lodged before the deadline.

Equipment and material support

Blue metal props and base plates stacked in the KBS Engineering rental container

Equipment Rentals & Field Support

Rental support for contractors and site teams who need availability, practical specs, and a fast answer rather than a week of back-and-forth: blue metal props, silver-and-blue scaffolding, plate compactor, two-sack mixer, and concrete saw. Availability is confirmed over WhatsApp.

Alongside the plant, we provide surveying services and geotechnical analysis in support of site set-out, levels, and ground conditions.

See the equipment we rent

KBS HOWO Sinotruk 6x4 dump truck tipping a full load of sand on a jobsite in Guyana

Material Haulage & Transportation

Construction material delivered to sites on the coast and farther inland: sand, loam, stone, and crusher run, hauled by our own HOWO Sinotruk 6×4 dump truck. Tell us the material, the quantity, and the gate, and we will come back with a delivery window.

See the haulage fleet

Service areas across Guyana

We are based at 758 Providence, East Bank Demerara, which puts the yard, the props, and the truck on the East Bank corridor. Mobilisation cost and lead time depend on how far a site sits from that base, so here is the honest version by corridor.

East Bank Demerara (home corridor)

Providence · Diamond · Timehri

Our own corridor. Same-day mobilisation, rental items collected or dropped without a haulage premium, and completed rigid pavement at both Diamond and Providence to point at.

Georgetown

City centre and greater Georgetown

Under an hour from base outside of peak traffic. Deliveries are usually timed early to clear the city before the corridor backs up; site meetings can be same-week.

East Coast Demerara

Haslington · Ann’s Grove

A day-trip corridor we know well. The asphaltic concrete road at Haslington Housing Scheme and the Ann’s Grove bridge rehabilitation are both ours. Crews travel out daily rather than camping on site.

West Coast Demerara & Essequibo

West Coast Demerara · Essequibo Coast

River crossings put a schedule on the work. We plan around the crossing rather than against it: material moved in fewer, fuller loads and equipment staged on site for the duration instead of shuttling.

Linden & Berbice

Linden · Berbice and the Corentyne

Highway hauls. Worth a mobilisation for a project of real size rather than a single load, so we quote these as staged deliveries with the equipment left on site between visits.

Interior (Lethem)

Lethem & Bon Fim, Region 9

The long one, over the Linden-Lethem road, and weather-dependent. Interior work is scheduled in blocks with a longer lead time so a trip carries a full scope, not one task.

Not on the list? Ask anyway. The answer depends on the scope. Send the location and what the work involves through the KBS contact page.

Download the KBS capability statement

One PDF you can attach to a submission or circulate internally. If you need something it does not cover (current CVs, certificates, or compliance documents), ask on WhatsApp and we will send them across.