History

Today's Thomas Vale is much more than just a contractor. Our work spans beyond the bricks and mortar of a building or the planning and design of a road. We recognise that our services, across the Thomas Vale Group, have wide reaching benefits to the users and communities in which we work.

1869

One hundred and forty years ago, Thomas Vale, a young victorian engineer designed and built the unique cast iron bridge spanning the River Severn at Stourport in the English county of Worcestershire.

The bridge still stands and sports cast iron shields on each spandrel. It is these shields, designed by Thomas Vale in 1869, which form the basis of the Group's corporate identity today and which continues to represent our traditional values of honesty, integrity and trust, but in the modern world.

1992

On Black Wednesday of 1992, a Team of working Directors successfully completed a management buy-out. Those Directors are still here today and have turned the business from a £12million small works company, to a £214million machine employing more than 3000 people both directly and indirectly across the region.

2004

In 2004, Thomas Vale was invited to join the Birmingham Construction Partnership on Birmingham City Council's largest ever capital spend programme from new build and stock improvements across the Region.

The Birmingham Construction Partnership changed the construction industry and many other local authorities in the UK has since copied the set-up and conception.

With over £700million already spent on regeneration in the area, this works out at around a £2billion impact on the local economy through sustained local employment and economic spend.

2009 and beyond

Today, Thomas Vale is the largest privately owned Construction Companies in the Midlands with a reputation that many of our competitors find enviable and hard to match. Named Building Magazine's Contractor of the Year 7 times in 9 Years and being awarded the Constructing Excellence Award for Major Contribution to Excellence and Quality for the region, ensures that how we operate as a business secures out ethical standing and positively portrays our ethos.

With some of the largest ever projects for the region, including £38million Office Block for Birmingham City Council, Building Schools for the Future totalling a combined £3billion and other strategic Construction Partnership, Thomas Vale is carrying out regeneration across the Midlands and sustaining thousands of jobs locally.