Our Story

ECL’s honesty and reliability strengthen our brand and reputation.
We have reinforced an ethos that each team member, whether site operative or board member, should push themselves and challenge their skills and knowledge to ensure personal progression—always with the help and support of their peers and mentors.

OUR VALUES

Safety first

Preserving the well-being of our people

Focus on success in a way that makes us proud

Pursue growth and learning for all

Always go beyond expectations

Quality – What we do, we do the best

Maintain integrity in all we do

Build a positive team and family spirit

Be fearless, embrace and drive change

OUR JOURNEY

In almost three decades, ECL has grown from our humble roots as a groundworks services company to an ambitious and continually growing civil engineering provider. Today, we're proud of our history and look forward to making our mark in the civil engineering industry and beyond.

Open for business

1995

From our humble beginnings, we set out on our story to provide groundworks services to the local area.

Limited edition

1995

In February 1995 we started trading as a limited company, allowing our ambition to grow and our boundaries to expand.

Sean Hoare becomes MD

2006

The sad passing of the founder Tommy Hoare led to Sean Hoare becoming our new Managing Director.

Growing our fleet

2008

The company's first brand-new plant machinery was purchased. This marked the beginning of our expansive investment in machinery and equipment, to not only improve and expand ECL's services but also to drive our passion for continually improving safety within the industry.

A record-breaking year

2009

Big ambition and even bigger determination led to our most successful year as we achieved an annual turnover of £10m.

Partnership

2010

In October, Steve Tysoe joined Sean Hoare as an equal partner of ECL. Steve brought with him, his extensive industry and business expertise to support the business’s continued growth.

Civil Engineering and Structural Engineering Team at ECL

A big project

2011

ECL always believe that bigger is better and we were delighted to win and successfully complete ahead of time our first project worth over £10m!

Houghton Regis ECL Civil Engineering, Groundworks and Infrastructure

The big two-oh

2013

ECL achieves an annual turnover of £20m.

Moving home

2013

Our continued success and growth meant the need to expand from our Top Farm offices, to our current home at Vanquish House in Kempston.

ECL Civil Engineering, Groundworks and Infrastructure

A new milestone

2016

Through further expansion and undertaking of industry professionals, we proudly achieved an annual turnover of £57m.

Bigger and bigger

2016

We began our biggest project to date at Wooton, carrying out large infrastructure works on a multi-phased housing development.

Triple digits

2019

This year we have achieved an annual turnover of over £137m! In such a short space of time, our dedication, to safety, investment in new technologies, staff and a desire to grow, has allowed the unprecedented expansion of our business.... but why stop there! Our ambition has grown alongside our success and we're excited to carry on our story and see where our path leads in the future.

Nett Zero Ambition

2021

ECL outlines its carbon commitment as a conscientious business to achieve net zero emissions by 2035. Baseline emissions are calculated as the first steps towards driving change.

Outstanding results

2022

In July 2022, our annual CCF Report revealed an outstanding reduction of 19% of the company’s overall carbon emissions.

On Board

2023

After 16 years with the company, Dave Fil is appointed Construction Director.

New Foundation Record Set!