Latest News and Updates from WJ Groundwater and across the Industry.
WJ Groundwater is thrilled to announce that it’s a nominated finalist at this year’s Ground Engineering Awards, The Hilton Park Lane, London on the 30th of June. We have been nominated in the Product and Equipment Innvovation category for in-tunnel drilling, dewatering, depressurisation and probing implementation on the London Crossrail project.
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WJ Groundwater’s Toby Roberts was one of three speakers at a well-attended Groundwater Control In Urban Areas conference organised jointly by the Geological Society Engineering Group and British Geotechnical Association. The event was a part of the celebration of a Year of Water and was focused on dewatering. Toby was one of the experts invited to speak about the groundwater control in cities and its challenges – including increasingly restricted locations and potential impacts arising from the interaction of dewatering and urban environments. The three speakers explored the subject using examples of recent dewatering projects in the London Basin.
Toby gave a presentation concerning dewatering and depressurisation strategies used to target the Lambeth Group Channel Sands for the tunnel works in London.
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As the Six Nations Championship commences, WJ Groundwater has gotten into the spirit of all things to do with the noblest of games, rugby.
WJ Groundwater has recently made a generous donation to the Ladies Under 13s team of Eton Manor Rugby Football Club (RFC) in east London. The money has enabled the team to purchase new rugby kit. It is very proud to support the development of the sport at grass roots level.
“It’s so very important for our team to turn up to matches looking like we really mean business – I tell all of our girls that looking the part is half the battle won and a great positive attitude builder,” said the Eaton Manor RFC’s team administrator.
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WJ Groundwater is celebrating the completion of a ‘key’ dewatering project at Lodz Fabryczna, Poland. The grand task took two years to reach completion and it has been instrumental in the establishment of our brand within east European markets. It has also provided us with a springboard to opening our first permanent office in Poland.
The new, three level railway terminal, Lodz Fabryczna is the new key communication hub for the redeveloped city-centre for Lodz. The whole enterprise is a part of a large regeneration scheme that is intended to contribute towards a revitalised local and national railway network. The new infrastructure will provide faster connections to the capital, Warsaw, and other large cities across Poland and Europe. The station is connected to the existing railway network via an underground tunnel running underneath the city centre. Both the station box and the tunnel were constructed using a top-down method and during the course of the excavation approximately 2 million m3 of earth has been removed.
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WJ Groundwater hits a six at the ‘Home of Cricket!’
WJ Groundwater is proud to be associated with Lords Cricket Ground for a new project. There’s nothing quite like working on a pumping test project at a world famous sporting ground, and in the Cricket world, there’s no place better known than Lords.
WJ Groundwater has been commissioned to dewater aspects of the iconic new stadium for renowned London football team, Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane.
This ongoing project is a great addition to our company portfolio that already includes completed dewatering projects for football clubs such as Reading, Derby County, Manchester United, and Chelsea.
The new scheme sees the existing stadium expanded to a new capacity of 61,000 fans, including the largest single tier in the UK (the home southern stand) capable of holding 17,000 people. Its new asymmetrical design is now focused towards the southern ‘home end’ giving the structure a unique look. Amongst many other new features, the re-build also includes a fully retractable pitch (for concerts), prominent new entrances at the front and eastern ends, and a ‘sky walk’ so tourists can climb 40 m for views from the stadium.
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WJ Groundwater in the Middle East has passed a significant milestone by completing 2 Million Safe Man-Hours Without Lost Time Incidents (LTI).
To celebrate this admirable achievement, dual staff events were held at WJ Groundwater’s bases in Dubai (UAE) and Doha (Qatar) at the end of December.
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WJ Groundwater is currently working with Dutch Foundation to dewater a 2B+G+1+30 residential building in Doha, Qatar. The property is located in the Al Dafnah District, also known as the Diplomatic Area. The project consultant is LACASA (Qatar).
The WJ Groundwater team led by Noel Melendez (Project Manager) and Vijayakumar (Site Engineer) is deploying a number of deepwells that are supplemented by a level of trenching and sumping to control groundwater levels.
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With WJ Groundwater’s Year End Parties there’s always cause to celebrate and 2015’s event was no different.
On a mild, Tuesday night WJ Groundwater team members and guests from all over the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula and beyond got together at the prestigious Oryx Rotana Hotel in central Doha.
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A very Merry Christmas to all our friends, valued customers and suppliers from the entire WJ Groundwater team.
We hope that you all have an enjoyable and relaxed holiday break.
Please note the our offices will be closed from Christmas Eve until we re-open on 4 January.
See you in the new year and here’s to an excellent 2016!
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Out-of-hours Contacts
In the event of an emergency, please contact our operatives-on-call on one of the numbers below between 29 and 31 December:
For the North West Region: Josh Soma: 07979 652656
For South Wales and and the Midlands: Steve Thomas: 07909 992715
For Scotland: Paul Barnes: 07979 652663
For London and the South East: Ilir Shabani: 07887 522539 or Charlie Bradburn: 07979 652669
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