[2] In 1866, he was appointed assistant resident engineer on construction of the Kentish Town to St Pancras section of the Midland Railway.

Everard became a partner in the firm of Ellis and Everard (later Aggregate Industries) in 1874, helping in the development of the Bardon Hill quarry and associated worker facilities including a school (1895) and two churches, at Hugglescote (built in two phases, 1878, 1887) and Bardon (1898).

[4][2] Everard was elected a fellow of the Geological Society in 1870, a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1886,[2] and a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1887 (he was also President of the Leicestershire Society of Architects).

He helped initiate the Derwent Valley scheme supplying water to Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Derby, taking responsibility for the Leicester section of the scheme from Sawley to Hallgates, which included an aqueduct across the River Trent and two covered service reservoirs each holding two million gallons of water.

[6] Other designs by Everard include: He built himself a large red brick house, Woodville, in Leicester's Knighton Park Road in 1883, and by the end of the century he was in partnership with Samuel Perkins Pick (architect of the County Lunatic Asylum at Narborough, 1904–7).