Wates

Wates has been appointed to deliver two phases of a Cardiff development in partnership with the council. The firm’s residential arm will build more than 1,000 new homes as part of phases two and three of the Cardiff Living programme. At least 40 per cent of the homes will be…

Advocates of sustainable construction must ensure the terms they use are understood by those they’re speaking to. Several panellists at Construction News’s Decarbonising Construction online conference warned that the use of jargon can be unhelpful when dealing with supply chains and the wider public, but stressed the need to try…

Wates has been named development partner for Harrow Council’s £600m regeneration programme. The north-west London local authority approved the company as its partner for plans that include a new high street at Wealdstone. It also includes 1,500 new homes, a new civic centre, shops, offices and a school. Harrow Council…

Wates Group has appointed a new managing director for its Smartspace fit-out and refurbishment business. The internal promotion will see Scott Camp (pictured) move up from commercial director on 1 September. The appointment follows a restructuring within the family owned group in July that shifted Smartspace into the Wates Property Services…

Sir Robert McAlpine and Multiplex are the latest contractors to rule out claiming through the Jobs Retention Bonus scheme. Under the programme, firms are entitled to £1,000 for each employee brought back from furlough who remain in the firm’s employment until the end of January. The industry as a whole…

Camden Council is seeking feedback from the market on its plans to retender the recladding and fire safety works at the Chalcots Estate. As previously reported on Construction News, the local authority decided not to go with Wates for the job despite the contractor having worked on the estate on…

Wates has announced a major restructure as part of an effort to target more residential and public sector work as it looks to recover from the coronavirus crisis. The changes will see Wates Residential will become a standalone business under the leadership of Helen Bunch, who is moving from her…

Wates took top spot in June’s league table for contract wins. The contractor secured £194.6m worth of work across eight projects during the month. Its largest was a £100m contract with Essential Living to deliver 184 flats in Swiss Cottage, north London. The job helped to put it well ahead…

Wates has reinstated all non-furloughed staff to full pay, including its board. The company announced the move on Friday and said it would continue to top up furloughed staff’s salaries. The move comes a month after the firm became the first major contractor to announce redundancies, saying it was looking to…

Wates, Keltbray and O'Donovan Waste Disposal are among the firms trying to raise awareness of health concerns faced by the industry’s male-majority workforce as part of an initiative called Men’s Health Week. Wates Construction managing director Mark Tant sent a video message to the to the firm’s employees encouraging them…