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Andy Crofts

Andy Crofts

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Owner & Director ACE Surveys Ltd. Available for topographical and measured building surveys, setting-out and site engineering across the South West.

  • Education

    • Walkden High School, Greater Manchester

      1975 - 1983

    • University College London, U. of London

      1985 - 1986
      MSc Land Surveying

    • University of Liverpool

      1983 - 1985
      BSc Geography

  • Experience

    • Contract Surveys Ltd

      Aug 1985 - Aug 1988
      Land Surveyor

    • Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd

      Jan 1988 - Jan 2001
      Senior Land Surveyor

    • Costain Civil Engineering

      Feb 2001 - Apr 2002
      Chief Engineering Surveyor

    • Skanska UK Building

      Apr 2002 - Jul 2003
      Senior Land Surveyor

    • Tarmac Southern Ltd

      Aug 2003 - Mar 2004
      Site Engineer (Subcontract)

      Upgrading DSA Test Centre, including roads, drainage, RC Concrete and M&E works.Supervision of all subcontractors, including setting-out, Health and Safety, ordering of materials, maintaining quality and as-built records.

    • Birse Rail Ltd

      Apr 2004 - Mar 2006

      Widening of 4km of railway from 2 to 4 track, including earthworks and 6 structures, including 4-span viaduct over the River Tame. Setting-out, QA and supervision. Replacing level crossing with 1.5km of new road and bridges over The West Coast Mainline railway and Grand Union Canal. Setting-out and supervision of all works.

      • Senior Engineer (Subcontract)

        May 2005 - Mar 2006

      • Site Engineer (Subcontract)

        Apr 2004 - May 2005

    • Galliford Try Ltd

      Mar 2006 - Jan 2007
      Senior Land Surveyor (Subcontract)

      Widening of 3km of railway from 2 to 4 track, including 2 bridge slides. Setting out and supervision (mainly on the structures). Also retaining walls and gantries. Monitoring of adjacent residential properties and existing track.

    • Alfred McAlpine Ltd

      Jan 2007 - Apr 2008
      Project Land Surveyor (Subcontract)

      Infrastructure for new satellite village on the outskirts of Bedford, including diversion of A6 round new development. Setting-out, dimensional control, volume analysis and supervision of all works.

    • Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering Ltd

      Apr 2008 - Oct 2008
      Project Land Surveyor (Subcontract)

      Provision of new platforms, liftshafts and buildings. Responsibility for overall dimensional control and as-built surveys, including setting-out of platforms,gantries and all RC works.

    • BAM Nuttall Ltd

      Oct 2008 - Jul 2009
      Site Engineer (Subcontract)

      Bypass works around the Western side of Northampton. Setting-out and supervision of all works. QA and earthworks volume analysis.

    • Hillstreet Construction

      Jul 2009 - Nov 2009
      Setting Out Engineer (Subcontract)

      Surveys and as-builts. Setting-out of reinforced concrete works, drainage and roadworks

    • Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd

      Nov 2009 - Aug 2010
      Senior Engineer (Subcontract)

      Setting out of new track works, design of new runoff areas. Setting out of new pit and paddock building foundations. Monitoring of existing structures.

    • Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd

      Aug 2010 - Apr 2012
      Surveys Manager/Roads Engineer (Subcontract)

    • Birse Civils Ltd

      Apr 2012 - May 2013
      Survey Engineer (Subcontract)

      Setting-out of 11 kilometres of scheme roads, bulk earthworks and management of surplus stockpiles. Provision of survey control throughout the project.

    • Volker Fitzpatrick

      May 2013 - Jan 2015
      Project Surveyor (Subcontract)

      Responsible for provision of Engineering Control throughout this civils / build / rail contract. Also managing the earthworks subcontract including the measurement and tracking of a million cubic metres of cut to fill and the developing of machine-control models.

    • Crosskeys Structures Ltd

      Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
      Senior Engineer (Subcontract)

      Responsible for all construction on 2 new-build buildings in Northampton from groundworks and drainage up to groundfloor slabs.

    • Volker Fitzpatrick

      Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
      Site Engineer (Subcontract)

      Setting-out Stats and District Heating scheme on the new Waterside Campus for the University of Northampton. Supervision of Subcontractors and management of associated Health and Safety.

    • Galliford Try

      Jul 2016 - Sept 2017
      Site Engineer (Subcontract)

    • Interserve

      Oct 2017 - Sept 2018
      Site Engineer (Subcontract)

    • WH Bond Ltd

      Sept 2018 - Dec 2018
      Site Engineer (Subcontract)

    • South West Highways Ltd

      Jan 2019 - May 2020
      Site Engineer (Subcontract)

    • ACE Surveys Ltd

      May 2020 - now
      Owner & Director ACE Surveys Ltd

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • SSSTS