The UK is home to more small businesses than any other country in Europe and this unique entrepreneurial spirit – celebrated on TV shows from Dragons’ Den to The Apprentice is key to accelerating our national drive to net zero.

The top five applicants to our sustainable innovation call out in partnership with Lloyds Banking Group have now been revealed.

Wates Living Space is proud to work alongside six of our customers to successfully bid for a total of £10m of SHDF Wave 1 funding which will allow retrofitting technologies to be installed in over 1,000 properties.

Bekir Andrews, Environmental Sustainability Director at Wates, speaks to Construction Manager about how he is responding to the challenge of net zero, both professionally and personally.

Wates is growing its relationship with international commercial real estate firm, JLL, with a new five-year contract to deliver a pioneering Next Generation Maintenance model.

Wates has been awarded a place on a £750m decarbonisation framework with procurement body Fusion 21.

We’re looking for new, innovative, sustainable technologies and materials that will help net zero homes achieve environmental targets.  

Ben Williams shares his insight on the lessons so far learnt on the Wates’ retrofit programmes and the challenges ahead for the sector.

Wates is launching a new marketing campaign to find new, innovative, sustainable technologies and materials that will help it build net zero homes and achieve its environmental targets.

Dr. Zainab Dangana discusses how connecting innovators, such as those that are a part of the Wates Innovation Network portal, with large companies is key to achieving the COP26 goals.

Sir James Wates has underlined the importance of family businesses to the UK’s long term economic success, as Family Business Week gets underway.

An environmental partnership between Wates FM and JLL has received a silver International Green Apple Environmental Award as part of a campaign to find the greenest technologies.

The Wates Group announces the appointment of Bekir Andrews as Environmental Sustainability Director, expanding its environment team to accelerate progress towards its bold environmental targets by 2025.

COP26 saw the last-minute agreement of the Glasgow Climate Pact to accelerate action on climate change. But, with so many of us wondering whether this deal is enough, it is clear there is no time to lose in swiftly addressing the impacts that we ourselves are having on the environment.

With the COP26 climate change summit coming to Glasgow, this is a critical time for us all to work together to avert a crisis.

With the COP26 climate change summit coming to Glasgow, this is a critical time for the world to work together to avert a climate crisis.

Led by Wates, the Decarbonising Health Estates Partnership (DHEP) is a new, multi-disciplinary team of built environment specialists including British engineering company, Arup and the international architectural practice, HKS Architects.

Wates Group and Lloyds Banking Group are working together to pioneer sustainable technologies in a bid to accelerate the built environment’s transition to net zero carbon.