Construction & Civil Engineering Magazine CCE Issue 211 | Page 139

_________________________________________________________________________________ Ashvale Civil Engineering
Since 2003 , Ashvale Civil Engineering has grown enormously , through perseverance and professionalism

This month ( September 2023 ), Ashvale Civil Engineering ( Ashvale ) celebrated 20 years of operations . Besides continuing to be a successful enterprise in the inflationary climate that we find ourselves in , or even its long list of happy clients and completed projects , a huge point worth commemorating is how Steve Cunningham , Director , and his team have maintained the organisation ’ s founding principles .

Since day one , the organisation has truly embodied a family-style ethos , through being established by a mixture of relatives and colleagues . Up until 2003 , Steve , his father Mick Cunningham , and their business partner Aled Owen , had all worked for a large groundworks company in Hertfordshire .
Mick ’ s career there had spanned more than 20 years , and seen him grow from a machine driver into the leader of the enterprise ’ s construction division . Aled had worked as a quantity surveyor there , and Steve had been taken on straight from school , which allowed him to simultaneously study part-time for his HND in Civil Engineering .
“ When we started out on our own ,” Steve
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