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LUCENT:

Behind the Lights of Piccadilly

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Behind the Lights – Piccadilly’s Lucent project completed for Landsec

THE SANDWELL AQUATICS CENTRE

Transforming Communities, Empowering Champions

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Sandwell Aquatics Centre

AESC UK GIGAFACTORY, SUNDERLAND

Building the UK's first electric car battery gigafactory

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AESC UK - Car Battery Gigafactory, Sunderland

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Find out why we’re one of the top 50 employers for gender equality

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We’ve been named as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2023

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Tim Wates succeeds Sir James Wates CBE as our Chairman

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Tim Wates succeeds Sir James Wates CBE as our Chairman

A sustainable tomorrow

Our environmental sustainability plan sets out a clear path to become a sustainable, trusted and progressive business.

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Wates Retrofit - tackling fuel poverty and carbon emissions in social housing

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Our 2022 financial results
Inclusion and Diversity
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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 over 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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Latest updates

SHDF wave 2.1 contracts exceed £100m

SHDF wave 2.1 contracts exceed £100m

22 November 2023

We’ve further cemented our presence as a leader in social housing retrofit having secured £107m of Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1 contracts on behalf of 17 social landlords.

Championing young talent

Championing young talent

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We caught up with our Customer Services Apprentice, Kaydn, to chat all about his experience of our early careers programme, from his passion for learning on the job to his day-to-day responsibilities.

Our net zero target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative

Our net zero target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative

21 November 2023

We are proud to share that the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) has approved our long-term science-based emissions reduction target.

An increased focus on customer experience with senior promotion

An increased focus on customer experience with senior promotion

26 OCTOBER 2023

Chey Godfrey has been promoted to Support Services Operations Manager within our facilities management (FM) business to increase the focus on compliance for our growing facilities management customer base.

Will Bayley MBE: The countdown to Paris 2024 is on!

Will Bayley MBE: The countdown to Paris 2024 is on!

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With less than a year to go to the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, we caught up with reigning world number one paralympic table tennis player and our long-time sponsorship partner, Will Bayley MBE, to find out his plans for next year and beyond.

Building for the future around the historic Piccadilly Lights

Building for the future around the historic Piccadilly Lights

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In this blog, Peter Jones, Wates Senior Sustainability and Environmental Advisor, shares how, together with client Landsec, Wates has delivered a sustainable workplace with an impressive biodiversity net gain and embodied carbon reduction at the flagship building project behind the lights at Piccadilly Circus:  Lucent.