We have started our new partnership with South Derbyshire District Council to deliver planned and responsive housing maintenance works to the Council’s 3,000 properties.

In May 2022, we began a whole house retrofit contract for Nottinghamshire Council as part of their £1.5m Social Housing Decarbonisation Demonstrator Fund works

In July 2022, we began a retrofit project with Stonewater, after they took the decision to decarbonise a number of their least energy efficient homes.

Manor Drive School in Peterborough accommodates pupils from Nursery age through to Secondary school, with 446 primary pupils, 900 secondary pupils, and 26 nursery places with new teaching and support areas.

We have appointed Matt Johnson as Regional Director for construction in the Midlands, to lead the region and deliver our strategic objectives.

Construction at the University of Oxford’s largest project to date, the £200m Life and Mind Building (LaMB), has reached its latest major milestone, with the circa 270,000 sq ft reinforced concrete structure now complete.

Supporting the government’s plan to deliver 20,000 new prison places.

Refurbishment of a Grade II listed building in Derby City Centre.

The DNRC is an investment in the future of clinical rehabilitation in the UK for military personnel and will bring wholesale improvements in rehabilitative care.

Longhurst Group – housing maintenance

New college provides 2,000 student places in a state-of-the-art teaching space.

Prisoners will learn the skills they need to stay on the straight and narrow as the latest phase of the government’s plan to deliver 20,000 new prison places gets underway.

After undergoing extensive roof and structural restoration assisted by a scaffolding structure weighing more than eight blue whales, the team behind the transformation of Derby’s iconic Market Hall has revealed that the first phase of work has now completed.

Wates and Perfect Circle have jointly completed £22m worth of works at the Loughborough University Science Enterprise Park.

National contractor Wates Construction has completed works at Nottingham College City Hub, a landmark new campus for the College providing space for 2,000 students and 200 staff, offering local people a state-of-the-art learning experience and future employment opportunities.

Wates entered the East Midlands Celebrating Construction Awards for its work on Poplar Farm Primary School’s building.

The ground floor of the Council House has undergone a major reconfiguration that has brought together a number of key services in one area, better supporting the needs of Derby citizens.

Wates Construction, the contractor set to build the Axis Square scheme in Birmingham, has announced the appointment of Lisa Cunningham to Pre-Construction Manager for the Midlands.