Wates

Main contractor Wates may have posted record turnover in 2024 – plus a pre-tax profit for the 25th consecutive year – but its chief executive isn’t resting on his laurels. Speaking to Construction News on 8 April after Wates released its financial results for the 2024 calendar year, Eoghan O’Lionaird…

This story was written with the assistance of AI Read more about our AI experiment Wates has been appointed to deliver the final construction phase of a major government office development in Manchester city centre. The firm will carry out the Category B fit-out of the Government Property Agency’s (GPA)…

Now that the sporting circus has left town, Luke Haynes hears how a flagship venue is being renovated for use by local communities in the West Midlands Project: Sandwell Aquatics Centre Client: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Project value: £85m Main contractor: Wates Construction Contract type: NEC Project start date: autumn…

Construction News asked figures from throughout the industry what construction should prepare for in the New Year. Here’s what they had to say.

Wates chief executive David Allen tells Ian Weinfass why the sector has thrived despite the crisis it faced in 2020, how this will help solve the skills shortage, and how he plans to grow his firm through its residential work

Wates set out to eliminate the need for scaffolding or mast climbers on the 33-storey Anthology Hale in north London – and saved on costs by doing so

Project: The Bank (Tower 2) Contract value: £36.5m Client: Regal Property Group Main contractor: Wates Construction Contract type: Design and build Structural engineer: d2e Piling: Keller Start date: June 2017 End date: November 2019 As far as identity crises go, The Bank scheme in central Birmingham has had its fair…

In the prestigious west London neighbourhood Cadogan Estates is turning a 1930s icon of the famous King’s Road into a cutting-edge development.

British Land is pumping close to £4bn into transforming Canada Water, with around 5m sq ft of new developments on the cards. The project’s mastermind Roger Madelin takes CN around a site that is catching the eye of industry heavyweights.

Quintain has tasked Wates with delivering hundreds of homes to high standards as a neglected corner of London is turned into a thriving community.