WJ UK provides tailored water management solutions that combine scientific principles with a consultative approach to deliver success around the world.
Our water management solutions go beyond the ordinary, drawing from 4,000+ global projects to ensure excellence.
Academic rigour drives our innovative, risk-minimising engineering solutions.
We deliver client-focused solutions through a holistic, transparent approach.
Our experience around the world is unmatched. There isn’t a ground condition we haven’t encountered.
From the complex to the compartmentalised, WJ UK has the depth of experience and expertise to deliver to your exact water management needs.
WJ Group has a long heritage in dewatering systems and groundwater control to facilitate the building of structures that extend below groundwater levels. We offer a complete design, installation and maintenance service so there is a solution for all your project needs.
Contamination can be complex, but we make it manageable with a full spectrum of solutions including plant hire and pilot plant testing through to full specification, installation, operation operation and water level monitoring services.
Whatever the purpose, it is essential that the wells are designed and constructed safely and effectively. Whether you are looking for a single large water supply well or an array of wells, WJ Group can provide everything your well drilling projects require from well testing to wellpoint dewatering.
WJ Group has a long heritage in dewatering systems and groundwater control to facilitate the building of structures that extend below groundwater levels. We offer a complete design, installation and maintenance service so there is a solution for all your project water management needs.
WJ UK provides integrated monitoring solutions across geotechnical, geochemical, groundwater, and surface water disciplines. Our systems help identify long-term trends, support proactive maintenance strategies, and inform future design and construction decisions. With real-time electronic data capture, automated alerts, and expert interpretation, we enable early issue detection and effective project management throughout the lifecycle of your works.
Undertaking pumping and thermal response tests to investigate hydrogeological conditions, requires comprehensive understanding and expertise. With over 30 years of industry-leading experience and vast knowledge across all areas, you can be confident that your project will be completed safely, efficiently and reliably.
Contamination may be complex-but with WJ UK, it’s manageable. Our expert team delivers end-to-end water treatment solutions tailored for construction projects, supporting both groundwater and surface water challenges. From licensing and environmental permitting through to treatment plant design, installation, commissioning, and ongoing maintenance, we provide technically robust systems to meet regulatory and operational requirements. With proven experience across a wide range of UK infrastructure and development sites, we ensure safe, compliant, and sustainable water management at every stage of your project.
Whether you require a single high-capacity water supply well or a complex array of dewatering wells within a tunnel, WJ UK delivers safe, effective, and fully compliant well drilling solutions. Our fleet of modern, low-emission drilling rigs is supported by experienced teams, including British Drilling Association-audited drillers, ensuring every project meets the highest industry and environmental standards from design through to execution.
WJ UK provides comprehensive solutions and expert support for ground source heating and coolling energy systems from feasibility studies to well installation, testing and mainteteance. With over 30 years of experience you can be confident that the work will be delivered safely, efficently and relaibly.
Location Essex, UK Client SOCOTEC / Perfect Circle Year 2020 Features Drilling, instrumentation, monitoring, pumping tests, rivers and canals, tunnels Since our formation in 1981, WJ has gained an outstanding reputation by working on many of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects in the UK. Throughout 2020 and 2021.
Location Wandsworth, London Client BMB (joint venture) Year 2020 Features In-tunnel probing WJ is renowned and respected in the tunnelling industry as the leading depressurisation and dewatering contractor in the UK for complex underground structures within the notoriously difficult London strata called the Lambeth Group. We are proud of the.
Location Ashford, Kent Client Black & Veatch (later BTU) Year 2016 Features Deep well systems, rivers and canals Technically challenging groundwater control projects are the foundation of WJ’s ongoing success story. An example of a successful project in particularly difficult ground conditions was for Southern Water at their wastewater treatment.
Location Ipswich Client SOCOTEC Year 2021 Features Instrumentation and pumping tests In 2021, WJ was engaged by SOCOTEC, the site investigation contractor for the client, National Highways, to bring its instrumentation and pumping test experience to a key infrastructure project of national importance – the A57 Trans-Pennine Route. Primarily designed.
Location Ipswich Client Environment Agency / VBA (VolkerStevin, Boskalis Westminster & Atkins) Year 2016 Features Deep well systems, rivers and canals WJ is a long-established industry leader and innovator in dewatering and hydrogeology management systems in the UK. A complex and high risk project took us to the heart of.
Location London Docklands, London Client Riverlinx, Fugro Geoservices, Bam Nuttall, Ferrovial, and SK Ecoplant Year 2022 Features Pumping tests There are over sixty bridges and tunnels that cross the River Thames in London. These include London Bridge, the Dartford Crossing, Westminster Bridge, and numerous rail tunnels. Opening in 2025, the.
We champion sustainability at every step by embedding low-carbon solutions and environmentally responsible practices across our services. It’s a forward-thinking approach that reduces carbon output and leverages renewable energy to place us at the forefront of today’s demand for sustainable development.
