A Family Groundworks Firm Since 1970

JC Aldred Services is a family groundworks business based in Dockenfield, just outside Farnham for more than 50 years. We specialise in all aspects of groundworks including foundations, drainage and hard landscaping across Surrey and Hampshire.

Our History

JC Aldred Groundworks has been operating in Surrey and Hampshire since 1970. Over that time the industry has changed, with stricter regulations and the advancement of more energy efficient materials, but the way we run the business hasn't.

Dan Aldred runs the business today and personally prices and oversees every project to ensure competitive quotations and efficient project management.

  • Most of our work comes from repeat clients, the majority of them local developers and builders. Some of those relationships go back more than thirty-five years.

    We've worked regularly for Rookery Barns, HH Hilder & Sons, Waverley Building Preservation, FW German Haslemere, Eavoak, Grangewood Southern and Weydon Trust.

    We also work directly for private clients on new builds, extensions, barn conversions, driveways and gardens, and alongside the architects and structural engineers who design them.

  • We look before we price

    We come and see the site, read the drawings and advise taking into account our local ground condition knowledge . A groundworks price given over the phone is a guess, and it's the guesses that turn into extras.

    We flag problems early

    Fifty years in the same patch means we've usually seen the ground before. Where something doesn't add up — the drawn foundation depth, the drainage fall, the tree two metres from the footprint — we'd rather raise it at quote stage than discover it at dig stage.

    We finish what we start

    We run our own machines, so we're not waiting on plant hire, and we don't take on so many jobs at once that yours stops for a fortnight halfway through.

    We work with your professionals

    Architects, structural engineers, building control and arboriculturists. We build to the drawings, call the inspections in at the right stages, and keep you informed throughout.

  • To make sure we deliver an efficient service, we own and maintain our own fleet of contractors' plant, including Volvo excavators and Terex site dumpers. All of our excavator operators are fully CITB qualified.

    Alongside conventional foundations, drainage and hard landscaping, we specialise in LOGIX™ insulated concrete formwork and STEPOC™ reinforced block retaining wall systems, and we install and commission sewage treatment plants, septic tanks, pump stations and rainwater harvesting systems.

  • We're based in Dockenfield near Farnham and work across Surrey and Hampshire — Farnham, Guildford, Godalming, Haslemere, Alton, Aldershot, Farnborough, Bordon, Petersfield and Fleet — and further afield for the right job.

  • We recycle all waste materials from site and use recyclable materials wherever we can.

    The sewage treatment plants we install meet current Environment Agency standards, and many of them replace older septic tanks that were discharging untreated waste straight into local watercourses. It's one of the more direct ways a groundworks firm can help clean up our rivers.

    We also use systems like LOGIX insulated concrete formwork, which builds insulation into the structural wall itself and makes for a more energy-efficient building, and we run a fleet of clean, well-maintained plant.