Our partnership with Wellcome Trust on the Wellcome Genome Campus Development is a powerful example of redefining what development can achieve.

On Monday 17 November 2025, we joined the University of Oxford to mark the opening of the Life and Mind Building (LaMB), a landmark research and teaching facility that brings Biology and Experimental Psychology together under one roof.

We have completed a £200 million state-of-the-art research and education facility for Oxford University – the Life and Mind Building.

We are an official member of the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) – a global organisation dedicated to advancing sustainability in high-tech laboratory and research facility design.

Our Construction South business has successfully delivered practical completion of the Life and Mind Building – a landmark development for the University of Oxford and one of the largest building projects in the university’s history.

We have completed the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Harwell, Oxfordshire – a new enterprise by UK Research and Innovation.

We’re set to deliver state-of-the-art facilities and high-quality lab space in Cambridge as soon as Mid-2025.

We’re currently onsite converting Grade-II listed Victoria House into 300,000 sq ft, state-of-the-art life sciences hub.

We’ve been appointed to convert Grade-II listed Victoria House into a 300,000 sq ft, state-of-the-art life sciences hub, with the main phase due to complete in Autumn 2024.

’Speed to Market: Life Sciences Buildings‘ draws on expert knowledge to demystify the intricacies of building in the science sector.

We are part of the team currently on site at the AstraZeneca Macclesfield Campus.

Oxford University’s Life and Mind Building, completed by Wates Construction and SES in 2025, is a centre of world-class research and scientific endeavour that aims to benefit all our lives.

The Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant (LSEP) in Greater Manchester will provide renewable electricity to power 125,000 homes.

New four-storey research/office and laboratory.

The National Horizons Centre marks the start of an era of pioneering innovation and research in UK bioscience.

Located at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Campus at Harwell in Oxfordshire, the ambition of the national centre is to foster a vibrant environment that promotes collaboration between quantum hardware and software researchers, attracting visitors and industry interest from across the UK and internationally.

Wates has begun the construction of the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC). The purpose-built facility will be a landmark building that will distinguish the NQCC as a world-leading scientific research institution.

This is the largest building project ever undertaken on behalf of the University and will be its largest teaching and research facility.