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Wates launches ‘Healthy Homes’ service to improve UK’s social housing stock

Wates has launched a new dedicated service designed to combat two of the greatest challenges facing social housing, disrepair, and damp and mould. The new Healthy Homes service, which boasts six customers in place already, will see Wates offer existing ...

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Wates lands GPA fit-out deal

The Government Property Agency (GPA) has appointed Wates to carry out a Category B fit-out of 2 Ruskin Square in Croydon creating a centralised hub for civil servants. Wates will transform the 10-storey, 330,000 sq ft building, which forms part ...

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Wates secures its largest SHDF contract to date

Wates has secured a £21 million contract to retrofit 665 homes across the Royal Borough of Greenwich, through the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1, which is now the firms largest SHDF contract to date. Carrying out energy improvement ...

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Wates rounds off record retail year in Glasgow

Wates has completed the fit-out of Marks & Spencer’s (M&S) store in Bishopbriggs, a transformation that brings Wates’ total 2023 portfolio to 76,500 sq ft of completed projects on behalf of M&S. The fit-out of the new Glasgow store saw ...

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Wates cements presence as a leader in social housing retrofit

Wates has secured £107 million of Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1 contracts on behalf of 17 social landlords. The milestone comes eight months after the Government allocated its latest round of SHDF funding, a total of £778 million ...

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Senior promotion at Wates

Chey Godfrey has been appointed to the position of Support Services Operations Manager of Wates facilities management business, a new role that will increase the focus on compliance for the company’s growing customer base. Godfrey’s previous position was Assurance Compliance ...

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Wates appointed to DWP fit out framework

Wates has secured a place on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Taxi Rank Framework for fit out projects ranging from £3 million up to £10 million across Northern England, Scotland, and Wales. Work will be allocated through a ...

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Wates accelerates decarbonisation plans

Building and property maintenance company, Wates, has accelerated plans to decarbonise its commercial van fleet with a major investment to replace 45 small diesel, supervisor vans with new electric cars, which will be used across the Group’s UK-wide fit-out, refurbishment and ...

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Wates wins multi-site FM deal with Yorkshire Building Society

Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) has awarded Wates FM a five-year deal for the provision of facilities management services across its UK-wide estate. Valued at around £7 million, the contract, which commences in August includes hard FM and compliance services across ...

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Wates grows retail project portfolio with M&S appointments

Marks and Spencer (M&S) has appointed Wates to deliver three large-scale fit-out contracts at its stores in Dundee, Uckfield, and Guildford. With a combined area of over 80,000 sq ft, the three contracts form part of M&S’s major investment to ...

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