Brilliant Ideas Ltd | Inventors and manufacturers of construction safety products

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Awards

Recognised across construction

Team

A high level of customer service

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Beresford’s

The largest precast concrete installation specialist in the UK

ALIMATS®

Interlocking Aluminium Crane Mats & Outrigger Pads

Hole Covers

Temporary Safety Hole Covers for Construction

Instant Pipe Shutter

Alternative Shuttering Method

Levelling Shims

Stacker Packers, our engineered levelling shim with a high compressive strength

Pole Driller

Safe, fast and cost-effective drilling

Safety Net Recovery System

Construction’s Fastest Inflatable System

Shutter Clip

Permanent shuttering solution for hollowcore unit ends

SLAPP Clamp

The safe lightweight block moving system

Our products are designed, rigorously tested and certified to be safer, faster, cheaper and greener compared to traditional methods used on construction sites

Founded by entrepreneur and inventor Chris Massey, our products are born out of years of hands-on experience and an in-depth understanding of how to improve site safety.

These multi award-winning inventions are used widely across all construction sectors and clients include Balfour Beatty, Severfield, Ainscough, Kier, Sir Robert McAlpine, Emerson, BAM, FP McCann, Laing O’Rourke, Willmott Dixon, King Lifting, Bison Precast, Tilbury Douglas and Altrad.

Our products

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ALIMATS®

Interlocking Aluminium Crane Mats & Outrigger Pads

View details

Hole Covers

Temporary Safety Hole Covers for Construction

View details

Levelling Shims

Stacker Packers, our engineered levelling shim with a high compressive strength

View details

Instant Pipe Shutter

Alternative Shuttering Method

View details

Safety Net Recovery System

Construction’s Fastest Inflatable System

View details

SLAPP Clamp

The safe lightweight block moving system

View details

Shutter Clip

Permanent shuttering solution for hollowcore unit ends

View details

Pole Driller

Safe, fast and cost-effective drilling

View details

Award-winning construction safety products, invented, designed, and perfected by Brilliant Ideas.

Don’t just take our word for it. Our inventions have won multiple awards. They’re used by some of the biggest names in construction on projects all around the world.

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Brilliant Ideas in Numbers

Minutes it takes to recover a stranded operative using our net recovery system

3

Number of awards Brilliant Ideas has won

36

Rated capacity of our large hole covers in kg

180

Years of experience (plus some) of directly employed staff

1000+

Load capacity of ALIMATS® in tonnes per metre squared

1856

Number of Stacker Packers used on La Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona

1,000,000 +

Designed, tested and certified

Our products are designed, rigorously tested and certified to make your construction site a safer place to work.

Each product has been developed to improve efficiencies and safety – especially when you compare them to traditional construction methods.

Dave Bloor, Bison Precast

John Whitham, Balfour Beatty Modular

We operate on a nationwide basis and most of our sites utilise mobile cranes. When ground conditions determine crane outrigger mats are required, we always recommend ALIMATS® as they are handleable and strong.

We’re using ALIMATS on our HS2 project in Birmingham because they come with an impressive load comparison chart – and they can be unloaded and placed into position without mechanical aids.

Invented to meet the demands of modern construction sites

Each invention has been created by Chris Massey. Chris started developing problem solving innovations more than 30-years ago when he couldn’t find products on the market to improve the safety and efficiency of his own employees. Most of the products in our range have been created in response to accidents or near misses. They’ve all been tried and tested and come with certifiable paperwork. Brilliant Ideas owns 32 patents.

In 2022, Brilliant Ideas won Equipment Specialist of the Year at the Construction News Specialist Awards. And in 2021, Chris was crowned winner of ‘Innovation Champion’ at the Building Innovation Awards.

Brilliant Ideas is the sister company to Beresford’s. They are the industry leading specialists for in-situ concrete works packages on steel framed buildings with precast floors.