Spring has been another busy period for WJ Groundwater with new contract awards in every corner of the UK, with projects starting in Dover, Port Talbot, Houston in Ayrshire, the Isle of Skye and Woodsmith Mine in North Yorkshire.
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UK
WJ Groundwater are pleased to announce the successful commissioning and switch on of their latest project in Blackpool, northern England. This project follows on from other recent projects in the local area, including the Phase 1 works at Anchorsholme in 2016 and at Lennox Gate in 2017.
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WJ Groundwater is pleased to announce its latest dewatering project in Blackpool – once the home of the tallest roller-coaster and one of the most recognizable buildings in the UK, the Blackpool Tower.
This project is based at Blackpool South and has been devised in order to improve the quality of the local bathing water and for flood protection. The capacity of the local sewer network is to be increased, and this includes updating one of the town’s pumping stations – Lennox Gate. and construction of a new storage tank at Fishers Field.
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UK Update – New operations base acquired
WJ Groundwater March 12, 2017WJ Groundwater is pleased to announce that since the beginning of February 2017, the company has become proud owners of some additional new business premises. The new yard, office, workshop and warehouse has been purchased to take over from operations at our Clipstone Yard. It has been a long standing ambition of the directors of WJ to own our main yard for the long term financial security of the company and to allow us to develop a facility for our specific needs to a high standard.
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UK Update: Bromley South Central
WJ Groundwater February 22, 2017WJ Groundwater has been hard at work on a dewatering project for client, the McLaren Group at Bromley, Kent’s new state of the art shopping centre. Known as Bromley South Central and due for completion in late 2017, the project is being overseen and managed by Dr Mark Pickett.
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UK Update: Ipswich Flood Defence Scheme
WJ Groundwater January 14, 2017One of the biggest projects of 2016 at WJ Groundwater has been on the Ispwich Tidal Barrier Project. We worked closely on the Water and Environment Management (WEM) project for our client Volker Stevin Ltd (VSL) to enable construction of the tidal gate structure at the River Orwell.
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WJ Groundwater offers new service: water sampling and testing
WJ Groundwater December 15, 2016WJ Groundwater has recently been awarded a £1 million plus contract for Ferrovial Agroman Laing O’Rourke JV (FLO) for groundwater quality monitoring on its multi-billion pound project Thames Tideway Central. Although, WJ Groundwater has been undertaking water sampling and testing for many years this is the first contract it’s won where these services are to be central to the commission.
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UK Update: WJ Groundwater’s Driver Manual
WJ Groundwater November 20, 2016UK Update: WJ Groundwater’s Driver Manual
WJ Groundwater has recently produced a freshly redesigned driver manual for all members of our staff complement that uses our fleet as a part of their job role.
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UK Update: Introducing Conrad
WJ Groundwater October 31, 2016Recently Geodrilling International Magazine published an article for WJ Groundwater. The piece was an interview with Paul Judge, our Major Contracts Manager in the UK. Below is a specially edited version for you to read and get to know about our new rig.
WJ Groundwater’s latest addition to its fleet of rigs is settling into the job with aplomb. The Conrad 500, known to us affectionately as Conrad, is Dutch manufactured and has many modern capabilities that will enable our team to complete projects that up until now have been slightly beyond our reach.
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We are happy to be a part of this year’s Scotland Build Expo. Come and find our stall G32 on 23 / 24 November at the Glasgow SECC where you can meet some of our dewatering experts. We’ll be happy to answer any questions about our industry and to tell you what we’ve been up to and maybe a glimpse of what we’ll have up our sleeves next. So come and say hello.
