About

About Us

Formed as a family business in 2005, Vale Consultancy originally by providing civil and structural engineering services to key clients in South Wales, and to the local community in the Vale of Glamorgan. Since then, Vale Consultancy has established itself as a well renowned and respected engineering consultancy with a work force of near twenty strong, providing a broad range of engineering services across Wales and much of England.

We are not a corporate entity and the Directors have a hands on approach to design. As the company has grown and continues to undertake larger projects, we will ensure we continue to provide a valued service to local communities and private clients. We enjoy meeting and working with local people, communities and design teams, and the personable approach required for this type of work forms the ethos of our working methods on larger projects.

Our goal is to provide practical solutions to often problematic challenges, whilst always having a focus on cost and quality. Vale Consultancy’s Engineers will always be proactive, personable and will provide an economic solution within a timescale to meet our client’s deadlines. We take great satisfaction by embracing challenging engineering projects, and providing a solution which enhances the architectural aesthetics of the end product.

We work with private home owners and business owners, developers, contractors, architects, and the public sector to ensure that their aspirations are achieved.

Our quality assurance procedures are accredited by ISO 9001.

Our Management & Engineering Team

Matt Jones Managing Director

Matt started his engineering journey at Leeds and Penn State Univariates obtaining a degree in Master of Architectural Engineering. Working in both Cardiff and London, Matt became Chartered in first Structures and subsequently Civil Engineering, before moving back to South Wales and re-joining the family business, Vale Consultancy in 2005. As Managing Director of Vale Consultancy, first working on his own from home, Matt has grown the company to the well respected medium sized consultancy it is today.

Matt holds a vast experience in the design of all types of building structures, ranging from small scale structural designs for residential extensions, to substantial reinforced concrete and steel frames for larger commercial schemes. In Civil Engineering, Matt has significant experience in sustainable drainage and infrastructure design.

Jon Mathias Director

Jon is a highly experienced structural engineer with over 25 years’ experience in engineering consultancy. He has designed numerous projects both large and small up to a value of £10 million. Jon’s experience ranges from small dwellings, housing estates to hotels, hospitals and apartment developments. He has also worked closely with the design development, co-ordination and detailing of many governmental building contracts, including the HMPS and HMCS throughout Wales and the south east of the UK.

Nick Clifford Principal Engineer

With over 25 years experience in Civil & Structural Engineering, Nick has designed super and sub structures in all the major construction materials, for Commercial, Residential, Educational, Governmental (Police, Prison & Court & MOD), NHS trusts, Transportation (Airports) and WDA projects, both as new build and as alterations/extensions to existing buildings. Nick has also undertaken building surveys for fault diagnosis & repair, assessments prior to structural alterations and change of use.

In addition to structural design Nick have developed a sound general knowledge of civil engineering aspects, especially those associated with building structures.

Leighton Roberts Technical Director

Leighton is a retired Regional Director of one of the UKs leading multi-disciplined consultancies with over 50 years’ experience as a Civil Engineer in infrastructure and the built environment. He has ran and managed a significant portfolio, including the financial control and outcomes of large projects in the private, public, and commercial sector, with insight beyond his core discipline to deliver the clients vision. He has written technical papers, provided expert witness of urban drainage at planning appeals, and activity involved as part of the national policy for Sustainable Drainage.

He has created systems and processes to benchmark, learn, and ensure continuously improved performance of the civil engineering business unit.

Chris Newby Structural Engineer

Chris is an experienced Structural Engineer working with concrete, timber, aluminium & steelwork design for both Commercial and Residential projects, Network Rail temporary works design, site and project management, with knowledge of all types of building and retaining structures. Chris has designed numerous high specification and large scale projects with values ranging from £1k-£20M including specialist industrial structures and high-spec architectural residential properties. Chris is currently scheduled to sit the Chartered Professional Accreditation exam with the IStructE in April 2021

Nedw Llewelyn Associate

Nedw is a Chartered Civil Engineer who has worked in both the public and private sectors on a wide range of Civil and Structural Engineering projects, and has worked on projects covering local government, education, commercial, industrial and residential sectors. He has designed highway and building structures, wind farm infrastructures as well as smaller home owner schemes.

Nedw yw un o'n siaradwyr Cymraeg brodorol ac mae'n gynrychiolydd busnes ar gyfer prosiectau a arweinir yn yr iaith Gymraeg.

Nicole Freegard Structural Engineer

Nicole is a Graduate Structural Engineer who recently completed a Masters with Honours in Civil Engineering at the University of Liverpool, attaining a 2:1. Since graduating Nicole has gained over 2 years valuable industry experience working on projects ranging from large scale steel and concrete framed student accommodation, steel superstructure, and detailed connection design, to residential projects of varying scale with values of £1.5k to £1M.

Since working with Vale Consultancy, Nicole has been involved in a wide variety of projects such as small bespoke home improvements, to larger scale designs working alongside Local Housing Associations in the South Wales region, and industry leading Architects.

Robin Powell Civil Engineer

Robin is a technician member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and has extensive experience in the production of preliminary and detailed drawings utilising the latest computer technology and software packages. Robin has the experience of Civil and Structural Engineering fields and the production of highway and drainage drawings, together with structural steelwork and reinforced concrete detailing.

Freddy Payne Infrastructure Engineer

Freddy has been working in highways and infrastructure engineering for over 4 years after attaining a degree in Civil & Coastal Engineering in 2016. He spent a few years in Hampshire working for a large consultancy gaining experience on a variety of small and large civil engineering projects before returning to South Wales.

He is now more focused on sustainable drainage, assisting clients and developers with SAB applications and approvals. Freddy also has good experience with 3D design software and can use it to help develop schemes with proposed site levels, cut and fill analysis, road layouts and alignments.

Joel Wall Infrastructure Engineer

Joel is a Civil Engineer who has a wide range of experience in the residential, retail and industrial sectors working on a wide range of Civil and Structural Engineering projects. Joel has gained years of experience working on a varied scale of works from small extensions to 7ha industrial sites.

Joel has invaluable experience in structural steel, retaining walls and below ground structural design; much of his work is now focused on Sustainable Drainage and external works.