Case study / Construction

Fort Knox.

A sharper digital identity and website for a drywall and plastering business — designed to make the quality of the company feel clear before a conversation even starts.

Industry Construction
Plan Grow
Scope Brand / Web
Location Nottingham / UK
fortknoxlimited.co.uk
Fort Knox drywall and plastering website homepage designed by Slump Studio
The project

Good work deserves a good site.

Fort Knox already had the thing that mattered most: skilled work and a strong standard of finish. The website needed to communicate that quality just as clearly.

Slump developed the brand direction and built a cleaner, more considered digital presence that gives potential customers an immediate sense of who Fort Knox are, what they do and why they should get in touch.

Make a specialist construction business feel as professional online as it does on site.

Construction websites can easily become generic: the same layouts, the same stock imagery and the same list of services. Fort Knox needed something more considered without making the site difficult to use.

The objective was simple — establish credibility quickly, make the services easy to understand, present the business with confidence and give prospective customers a clear route to make an enquiry.

Slump plan / Grow

Built on our Grow plan. Everything the business needed. Nothing it didn't.

02 / The website

Simple to navigate. Hard to overlook.

01 Structure

Clear services

The site makes it immediately clear what Fort Knox does, giving each key service enough space to be understood without turning the experience into a wall of trade terminology.

02 Credibility

Work that speaks

Project imagery and completed work become part of the sales process, helping potential customers see the level of finish rather than simply being told about it.

03 Enquiries

Clear next steps

Contact and enquiry actions are kept obvious throughout the site, reducing the distance between seeing the work and starting a conversation.

04 Responsive

Built for every screen

The layouts were designed to stay sharp on desktop, tablet and mobile so the business still feels considered when a customer discovers it from their phone.

Let the quality of the business do the convincing.

Strong first impression

The homepage introduces the business quickly with a more confident visual hierarchy and a direct explanation of what Fort Knox does.

Easy navigation

Services, projects and contact information are easy to find without making visitors search through an overcomplicated site structure.

Local confidence

The site makes Fort Knox feel established and relevant to the market it serves while keeping the tone professional rather than overly corporate.

Enquiry focused

Every part of the site ultimately supports the same goal: helping the right customer understand the company and feel confident enough to get in touch.

04 / Brand development

A more premium Fort Knox.

The brand direction was developed alongside the website so Fort Knox felt consistent from the first screen to the final call to action.

The aim was to reflect the quality of the work without falling into the visual clichés of the construction industry — something clean, confident and distinctly more considered.

Identity

FK. Simple. Strong.

The abbreviated FK identity gives the business a simple visual anchor that works confidently across the website and supporting brand touchpoints.

Fort Knox identity
Colour

Black. Gold. Neutral.

A restrained dark palette with gold detailing gives Fort Knox a more premium construction feel without distracting from the work itself.

Gold standard walls
Visual language

Clean. Precise. Premium.

Large typography, dark surfaces, generous spacing and carefully presented project imagery create an identity that feels closer to the standard of the finished work.

Built around quality
05 / The outcome

A website that matches the standard.

Fort Knox now has a clearer and more considered digital presence that better reflects the quality of the business behind it.

The Grow plan gave the project exactly what it needed: brand development, a complete business website, structured services, stronger project presentation and a much clearer route from first visit to enquiry.

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