Our commercial turnkey solution brings construction and fit out together under one contract, with one team and one promise. It’s a simpler, smarter way to build—designed to remove duplication, reduce risk and deliver with certainty.

Our Construction business has proudly delivered a landmark achievement in sustainable building design with the construction of Wellington Place, becoming the first new building in the country to achieve a certified NABERS UK Five-Star Energy Rating.

Across our SSH programme, the integrated Wates team is working together as one, creating space to reflect, share lessons learnt, and apply insight in real time.

For Tom Myers, leading the building and renovation of St John Fisher School is more than just a project, it’s a personal journey. As someone who once walked these halls as a student, Tom now has the unique privilege of shaping the future of the very place that helped shape him.

Construction of the new Joseph Norton Academy has reached a major milestone, with the full building frame now complete.

Through the Department for Education’s Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) framework, St John Fisher Catholic High School in Wigan has become the first school to benefit from a state-of-the-art new build featuring high-tech learning spaces.

Wates Construction is on site at HMP Welland Oaks, a new Category B prison in Leicestershire that will deliver over 1,700 much-needed prison places as part of the Government’s aim to create a total of 14,000 by 2031.

The British Library is redeveloping its 44-acre site at Boston Spa in West Yorkshire to create much-needed storage capacity for the UK national collection.

We recently hosted a roundtable with our partner, Premiership Women’s Rugby, to discuss tackling gender misconceptions in women’s sport and the built environment.

At Trinity Road in Halifax, we have transformed a Grade II listed building for Lloyds Banking Group into a future-ready office that brings together colleagues from three separate sites under one roof.

Woldgate School in Pocklington, part of the Wonder Learning Partnership, has officially opened its new teaching block, marking a major milestone in the school’s redevelopment journey.

We’re thrilled to announce that Jenny Martin has joined Wates Construction as Preconstruction Director for the West, reinforcing our commitment to strong regional leadership and delivering high-quality developments.

We have broken ground at HMP Welland Oaks, the new Category B prison being developed next to the existing HMP Gartree site in Leicestershire.

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 are proud to have supported the launch of the Pennywell Fellowship by sponsoring a community climbing wall at their high-profile event.

At Wates, we’re proud to celebrate Green Careers Week, an annual event organised by National Careers Week and supported by the Department for Education (DfE) and The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC). Running from 3–8 November 2025, the week aims to inspire young people to pursue careers that contribute to a more sustainable future.

Martine Corbett, Social Value Manager, shares her thoughts on how our programme is helping develop future generations in the built environment industry.

As part of developing the future generation in the built environment, we caught up with Cynthia Lakos, who is currently completing a placement at Wates Construction.