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

Woldgate School and Sixth Form, Pocklington, has celebrated its latest construction milestone with a steel signing ceremony, hosted by contractors Wates, the Department for Education, and Wonder Learning Partnership.

This new wing will provide much-needed prison places for the Ministry of Justice, with a focus on enabling the rehabilitation of prisoners.

We are delighted to celebrate structural completion of one of the West End’s newest Grade A developments on Oxford Street.

We’re celebrating with the University of Southampton the opening of a new extension to the Jubilee Sports Centre.

We held a steel signing ceremony with Hartlepool Borough Council to mark the completion of steelwork on Hartlepool’s new flagship wellbeing hub development.

High-quality, state-of-the-art new science facility at the heart of the Middlesbrough campus for Teesside University.

The six-week course covered a range of subjects, including CVs, Disclosures, Barriers to Work, AI, Interview Skills, Job Searches, and much more.

Developing long-term mutually successful relationships with supply chain partners is the key to delivering cutting edge, transformative, and large, complex projects.

I recently had the pleasure of attending the SteelZero event organised by The Climate Group alongside Bekir Andrews, our Environmental Sustainability Director, and Mark Craig, Regional Director for London Construction.

The introduction of the Building Safety Act (2022) saw the dawn of a new era for the construction industry. The Act applies to all buildings and requires the industry to actively demonstrate competence, defined as skills, knowledge, experience and behaviour.

We have completed all works at new Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service Training and Development Academy in Aintree

Paul Chandler announces that he will be retiring from a full-time executive role at the end of 2024, after a distinguished 42-year career in construction.

Wates has been part of a new secondment scheme pilot to support emerging talent across the wider portfolio through the Alliance 4 New Prisons. 

Senior members from the built environment attended a roundtable event hosted by Wates in March to share learnings about how their businesses are implementing circular economy principles today and how to bring it into the mainstream. Here’s what they discussed.

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

• We’ve announced with Riverstone the structural completion phase of a new landmark later living residence, with 93 apartments in Hampstead at a ‘Topping out’ ceremony.

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