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Wates picks former Lendlease boss to join exec committee

Will Ing — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:52:38 +0000

Wates has appointed former Lendlease veteran Brian Long as its new group health, safety and wellbeing director. Long will join the family-owned contractor in September and sit on the group’s executive committee, reporting to chief executive Eoghan O’Lionaird. Long previously worked at Lendlease for more…

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Election 24: ‘Make construction important’ pleads outgoing Wates boss

Joshua Stein — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 13:00:28 +0000

Construction deserves a bigger focus in government and is too often viewed as an “afterthought”, the outgoing boss of Wates Construction Group has said. “For too long, for an industry that employs so many people and that adds so much to the economy, construction is…

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Tier one firms picked for £2bn housing framework

Kerry Lorimer — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 06:00:15 +0000

CN100 contractors Equans, Morgan Sindall, Seddon and Wates have joined a swathe of smaller firms to land places on a £2bn public sector housing framework. A total of 66 contractors were appointed to the four-year Communities & Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC) framework, which is designed…

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Former Tory donor Wates is now ‘agnostic’ on politics

Will Ing — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:40:13 +0000

The chief executive of Wates has said the company is now politically “agnostic” and will not make any donations in the run-up to the general election. Wates gave £450,000 to the Conservative Party between 2001 and 2017, according to The Guardian – which also reported…

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Wates joins £2bn revenue club

Will Ing — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:55:16 +0000

Wates has joined the handful of UK contractors that turn over more than £2bn, after reporting a 17.6 per cent increase in revenue to £2.1bn. The Surrey-headquartered company also posted a 43 per cent increase in pre-tax profit, from £33.7m to £44.9m, for the year…

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Wates names new construction MD

Will Ing — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:37:58 +0000

Wates has formally appointed a new managing director of its construction business. Steffan Battle has held the role in an interim capacity since October 2023, taking over from Mark Tant, who left the business after nine years in the post. Now Battle has been appointed…

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Wates wins ‘complex’ £70m life-sciences conversion

Ian Weinfass — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:54:55 +0000

Wates has landed the £70m conversion of a Grade II-listed building in central London into a life-sciences hub. The contractor has been appointed by clients Oxford Properties and Pioneer to work on the eight-storey Victoria House in Bloomsbury Square. The 1930s building has a number…

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Wates Construction MD steps down after five years

Kerry Lorimer — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 07:00:08 +0000

Wates Construction managing director Mark Tant has left the firm after five years at the helm. His role will be taken over on an interim basis by Steffan Battle, former group head of pre-construction, who has been with Wates for almost 30 years. Wates did…

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Revealed: the top contractors for Ministry of Justice

Ian Weinfass — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:45:48 +0000

ISG was the biggest contractor by spend for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the latest financial year, Construction News can reveal. CN obtained data on the MoJ’s spending in 2022/23 under the Freedom of Information Act. The spend includes that by HM Courts &…

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‘Electricity superhighway’ puts Bam top of monthly contracts table

Charlotte Banks — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 06:00:10 +0000

Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of…

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