About us
Axolve was founded in 1990 to provide independent consultancy services of a high quality to clients in both the public and private sectors. Axolve is best known for its work for HM Treasury, helping to set the policy and provide guidance to central Government departments to help them obtain Best Value in their construction procurement. This work was one of the catalysts in encouraging the construction industry to change from being claims conscious and adversarial to working collaboratively with its clients and its suppliers. Axolve provides consultancy services relating to the overall procurement of constructed assets. We help our customers to achieve certainty of outcome in terms of functionality, quality, price and programme when they procure new buildings and civil engineering works or refurbish existing assets. In other words we help our clients to obtain value from their built assets.
Charles Botsford
Charles has an MA from Cambridge University and an MSc from Imperial College. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Professional in Value Management, a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, a Member of the Institute of Value Management and a member of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation.
Charles is an accredited Prince 2 Practitioner, an accredited OGC Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner and an accredited OGC Management of Risk Practitioner.
Charles' skills and strengths include:-
- Delivering results.
- Strategic planning and development of workable solutions.
- Getting buy-in and commitment from stakeholders.
- Lateral thinking.
Charles is a member of the board of Yarlington Housing Group, an innovative, efficient and expanding Housing Association. Charles was a Director of BIW Technologies Limited, the UK market leading provider of project collaboration extranets. Charles was also a non-executive Director of Brooks Service Group plc, a textile rental company with 1500 employees, until the management buyout funded by Alchemy.