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Wates Group boosts the capital's coronavirus response with expansion of Royal London Hospital

27 APRIL 2020

The Wates Group is using the combined expertise of its construction division and specialist engineering business, SES Engineering Services (SES), to help boost the number of hospital beds available in London for patients with Covid-19.

Quintain celebrates topping out of 633 new homes at Wembley Park

Quintain, the developer behind the transformation of Wembley Park has marked a major construction milestone led by Wates Construction.

Wates retains position on Southern Construction Framework

Wates Construction has retained its place on the fourth generation Southern Construction Framework (SCF), which promises a potential £5.25bn pipeline of work across the South.

Wates pledges local mental health support

Wates Construction, currently building the new purpose-designed mental health hospital off Haxby Road in York, has launched a campaign to promote positive mental health as part of the project.

Construction starts on new mental health hospital in York

Wates Construction has been excavating and preparing the site to build a specialist 72-bed hospital, which is now ready for building to commence.

Wates Construction signs £161.5M deal with Quintain for 633 new homes at Wembley Park

Wates Construction to build 633 new homes at Wembley Park in £161.5m deal with Quintain.

Leading construction companies appointed to build PHEs £400 million public health science campus at Harlow

Three of the UKs leading construction companies have been chosen to create Public Health Englands new state-of-the-art public health science campus and headquarters at Harlow in Essex.

Donors and fundraisers thanked as Wiltshire childrens hospice opens

Julias House, the Dorset and Wiltshire childrens hospice charity, has paid tribute to all the people who have made the opening of its new Wiltshire hospice a reality.

Pioneering skills campus launches at Kirkstall Forge

CEG and Wates Construction have celebrated National Apprenticeship Week with the launch of a new skills centre for the Leeds community at CEGs £400m Kirkstall Forge development, where Wates is building a new seven-storey office development.

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