Road and Sewer
Adoption Specialists
EXETER

Specialist Contractor for Estate Completion Projects

Who WE ARE

JLES are an adoption works contractor who offer multi-disciplined civil engineering and infrastructure solutions to developers across the UK.

As the UK’s leading specialist in adoption works, our 9 regional offices provide fixed cost adoption solution packages for roads, sewers, pumping stations and public open space throughout the mainland and Northern Ireland. Over the last 18 years we have worked closely with over 250 clients, providing a dedicated external resource to help support their adoption teams to finalise more than 6000 projects.

Our ‘consult and construct’ business model allows us to adapt our role to suit the clients specific requirements, whether that be assisting them to secure adoption agreements, resolve technical and legal issues, or by acting as a contractor to complete the site works.
JLES’s award winning Adoption Management System has been successfully used by Residential Developers, Housing Associations, Commercial/Industrial Developers, Financial Institutions, Public Bodies and retail landowners, for all manner of projects from 40 year old legacy schemes through to new-build and ongoing developments.

9 Regional offices covering the whole of the UK.

Our guaranteed adoption, fixed cost system allows our clients to set estate completion budgets.

Our fixed fee, invoice on results solution eradicates the risk of intermittent, speculative contractor claims.

We will reduce the strain on your vital internal resource.

You will benefit from our long-term relationships with Local Authorities and Water Companies.

We will effectively achieve bond reductions.

9 Regional offices covering the whole of the UK.

What our customers say about us

“Appointing JLES on our projects meant we had more time to focus on new and future developments. The engineers provide a quality service, ensuring we receive quick responses and regular communication from the management team.”

Persimmon Homes – Adoptions Engineer

Our Rolling Statistics

40

Current
Apprentices

266

Happy
Clients

8000

Completed Projects

20

Years in Business
Our Work

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