Lowery Ltd is the principal operating business of the Lowery Group. Delivering high-compliance, high-competency and high-complexity outcomes for critical national infrastructure, we've been supporting the grid since 1950 and the rail network since 1953. We work nationally, for the right projects, with greatest resource availability in South and East of England and the central region of Scotland.
Whether turnkey (design/construct/commission), design and build or as expert and collaborative installation partner, we deliver full substation and plant services with switchgear a speciality, SCADA and related communications, HV/LV/DC/Fibre cabling and - uniquely - all required enabling and civil (troughing, routeworks, bases) through our direct in-house resources, the majority of whom are dual-trained as electrical and civil persons for a full appreciation of the project - and the safe, quality outcomes to be achieved.
Much of our business is repeat business. We work to earn this right through consistent collaboration, focused value co-creation and getting the job done - safely, on-time and to standard. Underpinning all of this is our "Empowered to Speak Up" safety culture - bringing health, safety and well-being alive to all our people, giving every individual a voice and stake - enabling our industry-leading safety record in highly hazardous high-voltage environments.
Mark Gubbins
Managing Director
Leading Lowery's presence in Grid, Rail and Metro sectors and setting the tone for our collaborative, quality-focused culture, Mark has built-up his career at Lowery over 30 years, going from Site Manager to Managing Director and part-owner. From installing man holes and duct routes for Mercury Communications through to leading projects and then...
Daniel Burge
Operations Director
From the foundations of his career through a British Rail Apprenticeship, progressing with further roles within Racal & Thales spanning 15 years, then to date a further 20 years with Lowery, Daniel brings decades of whole-systems direction to delivering power and communications national critical infrastructure for Grid and Transport systems...
Our History
Incorporated in August 1950 by the Lowery family and initially working for GPO, Pirelli Cables and from 1953, British Rail. Our largest customer during this period was Pirelli, for whom we installed underground super-tension cables on behalf of the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). There followed a period of steady expansion during the 1960s and then further growth in the 1970s through our relationship with Pirelli, and extended activities with British Rail, CEGB and the GPO - including 3rd rail electrification and HV feeder install and upgrade of many key commuter routes in the South of England.
Parallel to these increased volumes of electrification, the 1980s saw the start of the telecoms boom and Lowery was successful in securing large tranches of communications cabling infrastructure work for British Telecom and Cable & Wireless - the latter’s trunk network installed trackside on the railway network - later translating into key roles in the installation of fibre, lineside furniture and IoT network devices for Network Rail's own GSM-R/FTN and RCM programmes in the 2000s. By 2000 our list of clients included National Grid, Thales, Energis & Marconi, Seeboard and Network Rail.
Following a successful management buy-out by the current board in 2015, and the parallel power and communications demands of net zero and digital transformation across the Grid and Transport infrastructure sectors, Lowery have significantly invested in enhancing our substation, plant, cabling and communications engineering, design and delivery offer. We have earned framework places and key supplier roles for DNOs, OEMs for the National Grid, Network Rail, TfL and other Metro operators and work closely with Tier 1s as a valued and specialist partner to meet our national mission for modern, resilient, power and communications infrastructure.
