JGB Groundwork

JGB Groundwork Ltd is a Berkshire-based specialist groundwork and formwork contractor. The company began trading in 1987 and was founded by John Burke, who has over 40 years' experience in formwork and groundwork. JGB operates from a base in Reading, Berkshire, and has completed projects all over the southeast of the country. Its service areas include Basingstoke, Berkshire, Bracknell, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, Surrey and Woking. JGB specialises in groundworks, waterproof basement structures and concrete frame structures, and has worked for main contractors, small private builders and on private properties.

Completed project types include RC frames, swimming pools, RC basements, staircases, ground beams, strip foundations and drainage. JGB consists of three divisions: formworks, groundworks and plant. It offers a full range of groundwork services, both commercial and residential, from site clearance, foundations and drainage to external works. JGB holds public liability insurance of £5,000,000, employers liability insurance of £10,000,000, contractors all risks insurance of £1,00,000 for loss or damage to contract works, and plant hire insurance of £500,000 on any item.

Reading customers repeatedly single out this groundworks and building firm for its fair pricing, professionalism and the clarity with which John explains each stage of a project. A long-standing client describes five years of collaboration spanning a modest extension to substantial frame and formwork work for complex spa and swimming pool facilities, noting that the team copes because it is properly managed. One homeowner, who had an urgent groundwork request in the Reading area and approached five regional companies for quotes, chose this contractor on price and the thorough way the process was set out.

John is named for taking on work smaller than the firm usually handles and for accommodating a homeowner's needs. The finish is a theme that recurs, particularly a large concrete base laid for a garden workshop, after which the garden was left spotless by John and his worker. Speed comes up too, with one job completed within days once the requirements had been fully understood, and technical know-how is mentioned as a strength of the team.