About Us

Joywheel Ltd was formed in 1991 as a plant hire and haulage contractor. The company’s primary role was to accommodate the needs of the piling industry where the reliable supply of plant and lorries to remove spoil from piling was a necessity in order to keep sites clear and facilitate continual work. Many of the sites were in London and access was often very limited and the build-up of spoil presented a real problem. Joywheel soon became renowned as a reliable and flexible contractor with the necessary resources to ensure that this difficulty was overcome, and since then Joywheel has gone from strength to strength.

During the 1990s, Joywheel worked closely with many major contractors, in particular Cementation Foundations Skanska, to tackle subsiding railway embankments and between 1995 and 2004 Joywheel completed over 35 such contracts, each worth around half a million pounds.

Our Experience

Working with major contractors including Cementation Foundations Skanska, BSR Metro (a Balfour Beatty company), and Balfour Beatty Rail, Joywheel has successfully carried out enabling and completion works for over twenty embankment or cutting stabilisation projects with contract values over £250,000 including Moor Park, East London Line, Lenham, Boston Manor and Turnham Green embankment stabilisations and West Acton and Stanmore cutting stabilisations.

Work involved in these projects range from the enabling works such as access road and piling platform construction to the implementation of stabilisation methods such as retaining wall construction and in-situ concreting, to completion works including re-profiling of embankments and finishing with topsoil and grass-seeding.

The company has in place a Preferred Subcontractor Arrangement direct with Network Rail and have almost completed a £1m contract clearing fly-tipped waste, removing lineside buildings and general construction work. Joywheel has also been heavily involved with the Watford-Bletchley Remodelling Project working with Network Rail and Balfour Beatty Rail Projects.

Joywheel has also worked frequently with major contractors involved in construction piling such as Skanska, Stent (a Balfour Beatty company), Expanded Piling and Bachy Soletanche (formerly Westpile).

Involved in general construction work, Joywheel has regularly provided services and materials to major companies such as Tube Lines, Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, Skanska Civil Engineering and Fondedile.

With regard to haulage, key clients include GRS Roadstone, Tarmac, Travis Perkins, Jewsons and Nationwide.

Other works Joywheel have been involved with include demolition and underpinning, bulk excavation projects, drainage and general plant hire.