Alfred McAlpine

Alfred McAlpine is a publicly traded British civil engineering firm and construction company with headquarters in London. More than 10 per cent of UK motorways and expressways were planned and built by this company.

The company was founded in 1935 by Alfred McAlpine. Alfred McAlpine had one of the sons of Robert McAlpine, an architect and civil engineer. His son followed him into this industry. For years, the office remained small and was in the 1980s one of the largest in Britain. In addition to the engineering activity, it developed its own construction company. As part of a consortium, the company was mainly responsible for the construction of the motorway M6 Toll. Important buildings that built Alfred McAlpine: the Galpharm Stadium in Huddersfield, which originally bore the name of Alfred McAlpine Stadium; the Dinorwig hydroelectric power station, the Manchester Central Convention Complex, the New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton, the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, the DW Stadium in Wigan, and the Eden Project.