L. G. Mouchel and Partners of 38 Victoria Street, London, SW, consulting engineers.
Louis Gustave Mouchel - Engineer.
1897 Company established by Louis Gustave Mouchel
c.1905 Introduced the Hennebique system of ferroconcrete construction in the UK.
1908 Incorporated as a limited company.
1914 Civil engineers. Specialities: Hennebique ferro-concrete structures. [1]
1924 Designed the first natural draught hyperbolic-curved reinforced concrete cooling towers in the UK for Lister Drive Power Station in Liverpool. Mouchel's senior engineer T. J. Guerritte persuaded the City Engineers to consider the new material. The firm was appointed to design the towers, eventually providing 12 for the site. L.G. Mouchel & Partners went on to dominate the market for the design of such towers for the next 40 years. In that time, they built more than 350 — 157 in the UK alone.[2]
c.1929 The business was broadened to act as Builders and Contractors, and in any part of the world[3]
1968 Partnership between Mouchel Associates Limited,Harold Coates, Wilfred Henry Booker, Leslie Dobson and Charles William Edward Babbage, carrying on business as Consulting Civil Engineers, at West Hall, Parvis Road, West Byfleet in the County of Surrey, under the style or firm of L. G. MOUCHEL & PARTNERS, was dissolved so far as concerns Leslie Dobson who retires from the said firm.[4]
1982 L. G. Mouchel and Partners incorporated as a company
By 1989 was part of Mouchel Holdings
1994 Part of Mouchel Associates Ltd
2015 Acquired by Kier Group