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Designing, constructing and maintaining buildings in response to the climate crisis

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Decarbonising Health Estates Partnership launches to help NHS meet zero carbon targets

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Wates, Arup and HKS launch partnership to decarbonise NHS estate

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Wates and Lloyds Banking Group join forces to drive environmental sustainability

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Wates Construction restructures for future growth

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Wates adopts company-wide flexible working

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Wates to become Building a Safer Future Charter Champion

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The Wates Group is one of the leading privately-owned, construction, development and property services companies in the UK.

Creating tomorrow together

The Wates Group was established in 1897 and is one of the leading privately-owned, construction, development and property services companies in the UK. We employ almost 4,000 people, working with a range of clients and partners from across the public and private sectors.

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Our capabilities

Construction

Construction

We find the most innovative and creative ways to deliver outstanding buildings while working in true collaboration with our customers, consultants, supply chain partners and the communities in which we work to deliver projects on time and on budget.

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Residential Development

Residential Development

Delivering land, planning expertise, contracting, development and joint ventures for both public and private sector.

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Housing Maintenance

Housing Maintenance

One of the UKs leading providers of planned and responsive maintenance services in the social housing sector, maintaining over 500,000 homes nationwide every year.

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Fit out and refurbishment

Fit out and refurbishment

Wates Smartspace is a national provider of high-quality fit-out and refurbishment solutions. We are a trusted partner for our customers, developing smart solutions tailored to their needs and optimising the performance of their estate. This allows them to focus fully on their core business.

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Facilities Management

Facilities Management

Working with over 85 customers across a range of industries and environments, nationwide, we use our engineering and technical excellence to deliver hard and integrated FM services; planned and reactive maintenance solutions to single and multi-site operations.

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Engineering services

Engineering services

SES Engineering Services (SES) is recognised as one of the leading M&E partners in the UK, delivering for a wide range of customers by creating environments that our customers can excel in. The drive for excellence and innovation is part of our DNA, maintaining SES as the design and build contractor of choice in the built environment.

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A proud history since 1897

Now in its fourth generation of family ownership, Wates professional family shareholders are committed to growing the Wates Group in a sustainable way with a view to handing over to the next generation.

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At Wates, we are driven by our purpose of inspiring better ways of creating the places, communities and businesses of tomorrow.

Work for Wates

At Wates, we are driven by our purpose of inspiring better ways of creating the places, communities and businesses of tomorrow. Its a bold commitment and we need the right people from whatever background to help us make this happen.

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Wellcome appointment of Wates FM supports genomics campus on journey to net zero

Wellcome appointment of Wates FM supports genomics campus on journey to net zero

01 DECEMBER 2021

Wates Facilities Management (FM) has been appointed by the Wellcome Genome Campus to carry out Building Services maintenance and minor works to the buildings and infrastructure at the pioneering biodata and genomics research campus in Cambridge.

Why social enterprises matter

Why social enterprises matter

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Danny Ingoldsby, Assistant Surveyor, explains why investment in social value and social enterprises matters in our latest blog.

Wates Smartspace expands DWP portfolio

Wates Smartspace expands DWP portfolio

26 NOVEMBER 2021

Wates Smartspace, is underway with a £4m refurbishment project on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Any government seeking to deliver on its promises is going to need a healthy family business sector to get anything done

Any government seeking to deliver on its promises is going to need a healthy family business sector to get anything done

25 November 2021

Sir James Wates has underlined the importance of family businesses to the UK’s long term economic success, as Family Business Week gets underway.

Wates Residential appointed for award-winning development

Wates Residential appointed for award-winning development

19 NOVEMBER 2021

Blackfriars in Battle, an initiative led by Rother District Council’s housing company, Alliance Homes to provide 200 new homes, has named Wates Residential as the partner contractor to build the development.

Wates & JLL win silver green apple environment award for energy management system

Wates & JLL win silver green apple environment award for energy management system

19 NOVEMBER 2021

An environmental partnership between Wates FM and JLL has received a silver International Green Apple Environmental Award as part of a campaign to find the greenest technologies.