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VolkerWessels UK is the UK arm of Royal VolkerWessels, the Dutch, multi-branded, leading international construction business that operates according to the 'think global, act local' principle.

From its family-owned origins, the business has grown into one of the country’s most prominent multidisciplinary contractors delivering industry-leading engineering and construction solutions across the rail, highways, aviation, ports, defence, energy, water, and environment sectors.

At any one time, our teams are working on around 200 projects nationally. Every day we overcome challenges, fulfilling our commitments, no matter what. That’s why our customers appoint us, and that’s why our people find working at VolkerWessels UK so rewarding. 

  • Aviation

    With a long and successful association with many of the UK’s biggest and busiest airports, we are recognised for delivering first class aviation infrastructure within tight timeframes whilst ensuring minimum disruption for our customers and end users.   

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  • Highways

    The UK’s strategic and local road networks are vital assets for communities and businesses, and our teams play a pivotal part in keeping these essential arteries running. 

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  • Ports

    We are leaders in maritime infrastructure and in providing multidisciplinary port-centric solutions across commercial ports, freeports and private industrial terminals. 

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  • Rail

    We play a critical part in helping to transform the UK’s rail network through improved infrastructure and by providing better services for freight operators, train operators and passengers.

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  • Defence

    We are recognised for our expertise and reliability in designing, building, refurbishing and maintaining the nation’s vital defence infrastructure in highly restricted and secure environments.

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  • Energy

    We are helping the UK move towards a zero-carbon and energy-secure future by connecting new offshore wind farms to the national grid and developing new nuclear power and hydrogen/carbon capture utilisation and storage infrastructure.

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  • Flood risk management

    Through long term relationships with the Environment Agency and local authorities we work to protect tens of thousands of homes, businesses and amenities from coastal or fluvial flooding.

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  • Water

    We support our clients in outperforming their regulatory commitments while ensuring sustainability and resilience in enhancing these vital resources.

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  • Building

    We have a strong track record of delivering demanding, high-quality projects, often to fast-track programmes and in live environments. 

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  • Regeneration

    We use our engineering specialisms to bring former industrial and brownfield sites back into public use and construct transformative assets that become the centre piece of urban regeneration.

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  • Frameworks

    We are incumbent on a significant number of framework contracts administered by various private and public sector organisations.

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  • Specialist Capabilities

    We directly employ skilled workers and invest in specialist plant and equipment to support our primary business units and other end user clients and contractors.

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