Gary Campbell-Dykes

Education Director07747 011 781 gary.campbell-dykes@wates.co.uk Linkedin

As Education Director Gary has overall accountability for our Schools Education Sector and leads our Central Education Team. He oversees the delivery of our DfE Frameworks, ensuring compliance, highest performance levels, and timely delivery of all schemes within budget.

Gary embodies and instils exemplary framework behaviours, ensuring we align with the Construction Playbook and wider government policy as well as fostering alliancing principles helping to drive better school outcomes and helping to achieve DfE objectives for a Safe-Sustainable-Suitably Sized-Space School Estate.

With over 25 years in the industry, including 13 years in senior leadership and education framework roles, Gary brings deep expertise in strategic delivery, stakeholder engagement, and collaborative working. He leads our 2021–2025 DfE National Framework for High Value Band (HVB) Projects over £12m and Low Value Band (LVB) Projects up to £7m, as well as our 2019–2023 DfE MMC1 Framework.

He has successfully overseen the completion of over £800m of our school projects, working in close collaboration with the Department for Education, Technical Advisors, Project Delivery Supply Chains, and the School Teams. This included the first Net Zero Carbon in Operation (NZCiO) schemes delivered through the 10year £10bn School Rebuilding Programme (SRP), .

Gary leads our Strategic Supplier Relationship Management (SSRM) partnership with DfE and supported the establishment of the Capital Apprentice Academy Programme (Wates/DfE/AECOM/MACE). He also contributes to continuous improvement through innovation, including the development of Adapt 4.0™ and our newest Adapt:NxtGen™ model design in readiness for the new DfE CF25 Framework.

As Chair of the BSA Education Committee and a SEND Academy Governor, Gary brings a personal understanding of the pressures schools face and the importance of maximising project outcomes for the benefit of pupils, staff and parents.