We care about the quality of our work, winning repeat business because we’re focused on our clients. We don’t chase growth for growth’s sake.”
Our leadership team
Alan Robertson
Chief executive officer
Naomi Connell,
We have a keen focus on carbon reduction and bringing value to the communities where we work, to ensure we balance the needs of the environment and society. ”
Richard Offord,
Chief operating officer, VolkerWessels UK and managing director, VolkerFitzpatrick
Delivering with certainty is a key focus that creates success not just for our business, but for our clients and supply chain.”
Jonathan Suckling,
Director, VolkerWessels UK
We’ve aligned ourselves with our customers. We talk plainly, help them through demanding issues and find them fresh solutions. That’s why they keep working with us.”
Matt Woods,
Group commercial director
We don’t have layers and layers of management. Instead we enable our people to make swift, highly responsive decisions, just when our clients need them.”
Steve Cocliff,
Managing director, VolkerRail
We value openness. We’ve seen that if we share challenges, we optimise outcomes.”
John Cox
Managing director, VolkerStevin
Harnessing digital construction and innovation
Since launching our ‘Tomorrow Now’ programme in 2019 we have been creating new applications, embedding technological change across all businesses and seeing real operational benefits. We are fulfilling our aspiration to be ‘powered by data, driven by people’, which means using digital tools to shape mindsets as well as techniques.
They make it happen: our people
People-Planet-Purpose
Highways and airports infrastructure 2021
Commercial, industrial and education building
Working mainly via our VolkerFitzpatrick business, we construct buildings, and provide integrated construction solutions for the commercial, industrial, logistical and distribution sectors, while also playing a significant role in education and defence.
Rail infrastructure
Marine, water, environment and energy
OUR BUSINESSES
VolkerFitzpatrick offers a range and depth of civil engineering, infrastructure and building services. We contribute to vital parts of the nation’s life through projects of strategic importance, while delivering those less visible, yet essential, works required by both private and public sectors. We build, renew, maintain highways, airports, railway infrastructure, and commercial, industrial and educational buildings.
OUR BUSINESSES
VolkerRail has industry-leading multidisciplinary expertise in heavy and light rail infrastructure for public and private clients across the whole of the UK’s rail network, drawing on almost 80 years of experience. Our Major Projects division delivers large scale, multidisciplinary projects, either on its own, with sister companies, in joint ventures, or in alliances. Our Specialist Businesses division offers services in signalling, track, power, electrification, piling and plant, covering the full project lifecycle.
OUR BUSINESSES
The complex marine, water, environment and energy sectors require specialised, innovative solutions. Leading in these sectors for VolkerWessels UK is VolkerStevin, collaborating with, and drawing on, the specialist skills of the group’s business units to deliver a truly integrated, multidisciplinary service.
OUR BUSINESSES
VolkerHighways brings its surfacing, traffic management, public realm infrastructure and smart city technology skills to bear on major highways, and lighting term maintenance and telecoms contracts.
OUR BUSINESSES
VolkerLaser repairs, strengthens and waterproofs concrete and steel structures, offering a tailored package of specialist works to clients across the UK. Our structural solutions include bridge deck waterproofing, expansion joints, concrete repair and cathodic protection works, steel repair and strengthening work, carbon fibre and temporary works, jacking and bearing replacement. We also provide specialist lightweight decking and access solutions, as well as being specialists in long bridge and cable refurbishment.