Wates Group today announces highest-ever turnover and underlying profit in the company’s 127-year history.

Developing long-term mutually successful relationships with supply chain partners is the key to delivering cutting edge, transformative, and large, complex projects.

We’ve been appointed to deliver a £4.3m Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1 contract on behalf of The Hyde Group, further strengthening our position as a leader in social housing retrofit.

We’ve been appointed by Hampshire and Isle of Wight’s Fire & Rescue Service and Police & Crime Commissioner to deliver a four-year facilities management (FM) contract across approximately 150 sites.

I recently had the pleasure of attending the SteelZero event organised by The Climate Group alongside Bekir Andrews, our Environmental Sustainability Director, and Mark Craig, Regional Director for London Construction.

The introduction of the Building Safety Act (2022) saw the dawn of a new era for the construction industry. The Act applies to all buildings and requires the industry to actively demonstrate competence, defined as skills, knowledge, experience and behaviour.

Putting sustainability at the heart of land promotion to deliver better outcomes for all.

We’re a proud partner in the Buy Social Corporate Challenge, a groundbreaking initiative to bring social enterprises into major businesses’ supply chains.

We’re enhancing  our paternity leave policy. Effective immediately, we are increasing fully paid paternity leave from 8 weeks to 12 weeks, reinforcing our commitment to supporting employees and their families.

Our Facilities Management (FM) business has been appointed by the global leader in hybrid working, International Workplace Group

The social housing crisis is a pressing issue, with over 120,000 households living in temporary or transitional accommodation as of June 2023.

Today we have appointed Brian Long as its new Group Health, Safety & Wellbeing Director. He will join in September and sit on the Group’s Executive Committee, reporting to Chief Executive Officer, Eoghan O’Lionaird. .

Throughout the conference our team is on hand to talk to you about your housing needs. We are specialists in maintenance for social housing as well as new build residential development.

Paul Chandler announces that he will be retiring from a full-time executive role at the end of 2024, after a distinguished 42-year career in construction.

This week, Chief Executive Officer, Eoghan O’Lionaird, attended a brief ceremony in the Mulberry cafe at our Head Office in Leatherhead, to sign the Armed Forces Covenant (AFC), on behalf of Wates.

Today we have appointed David Taylor-Smith MBE, as Non-Executive Chairman of Wates Property Services (WPS).

We have increased our fleet of electric maintenance vehicles by over 50% in a second major investment to our property services fleet in under 12 months

Wates has been part of a new secondment scheme pilot to support emerging talent across the wider portfolio through the Alliance 4 New Prisons.