Paul Chandler has announced he will be retiring from a full-time executive role at the end of 2024, after a distinguished 42-year career in construction. Chandler has been Executive Managing Director of Wates’ Construction Group since 2017 and a member ...

Hertfordshire County Council has appointed Wates to carry out a range of planned, reactive, and minor works across the council’s 1,025 corporate buildings, libraries, fire stations, adult day care centres, youth centres, rural estates, open spaces and schools. Valued at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...