J. L. Eve Construction

J. L. Eve Construction was a civil engineering company from south London.

It was formed in February 1930 by John Leonard Eve (3 February 1887 - 25 June 1954) from Aveley in Essex. In 1924 he was appointed as the Chief Engineer for the river crossings of the Scottish area of the Central Electricity Board (CEB, which existed from 1926 to 1947). He worked with Robert Chandler-Brown. The CEGB came into existence in 1957. J.L. Eve left a son and a daughter.

In the 1930s it built steel-lattice towers for the new National Grid and for the Chain Home transmitters.

From 1982 to 1988 it was known as Eve Construction. It would later be known as Eve Group plc from April 1988, then Eve Group Ltd and Babcock Networks Ltd from 2004. It was bought by the Peterhouse Group plc in January 2000.

From 1982 to 2000, it sponsored the Surrey Championship (cricket), being replaced by Castle Lager.

It was based at Minster House on Plough Lane in Tooting. It was based south of Summerstown on the B235, north of Haydons Road railway station (on the A218).

Later divisions of Eve Group were:

Eve Transcom, comprised

It built structural steel fabricated buildings or structures.

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