Working in close partnership with the client and designer, each stage of the project, from early consultation through to completion and handover, is carefully planned. Our professionally qualified management teams have the experience to take a project from conception to completion, with every project receiving the very highest level of care and attention to detail. Symm is one of the UK's premier building contractors, renowned for high quality over a broad range of skills covering specialist and general building, restoration, joinery, cabinetry and decoration. With a continuous presence in Oxford since the reign of King George III Symm employs the real characters behind some of the city's glorious buildings. Our Chairman, James Axtell, is the great-great grandson of the talented mason, Thomas Axtell, a partner of the Victorian master builder, Joshua Symm. Our building and decorating history stretches back 200 years.