Louis Gustave Mouchel (11 January 1852 – 27 May 1908) was the founder of

Mouchel Mouchel Group was an infrastructure and business services company headquartered in Woking, United Kingdom. It provided advisory, design, project delivery and managed services associated with infrastructure and business services across the high ...

, one of the

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's largest engineering consultancies.

Career

Born and educated in Cherbourg, Mouchel trained as a naval officer and then as an engineer at the Government School of Mines.Louis Gustave Mouchel at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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/ref> He then joined the Department of Highways. In 1875, he moved to Briton Ferry in

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and formed the ''Cardiff Washed Coal & Fuel Company''. He became the agent for a system of reinforced concrete developed by

François Hennebique François Hennebique (26 April 1842 – 7 March 1921) was a French engineer and self-educated builder who patented his pioneering reinforced-concrete construction system in 1892, integrating separate elements of construction, such as the column ...

which he referred to as ''ferroconcrete''. In 1907 he founded L. G. Mouchel which subsequently became one of the

's largest engineering consultancies. He spent most of his adult life in the

but died in Cherbourg in 1908. He never married.

References

1852 births 1908 deaths French businesspeople Reinforced concrete 19th-century British businesspeople {{UK-business-bio-stub