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Our services

We work with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.

At Wates, we are passionate about creating thriving places where people and nature flourish. We deliver complex and impactful projects across a diverse range of sectors, including education, healthcare, residential, commercial, and emergency services.

We develop, build, and maintain sustainable environments that foster inclusivity, opportunity, and well-being.

Develop

One of the largest and most experienced land promotion businesses in the sector.

Our expertise in land and development helps to boost the supply of much-needed new homes across the UK. Working closely with land agents and owners, we are committed to delivering high-quality housing solutions that meet the needs of local communities.

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Build

We build great places for people to live and work in and develop solutions to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

Our passion is delivering sustainable buildings that enhance people’s lives and the wider community. Whether building schools, hospitals, homes or offices, we are committed to innovation. As such, we work tirelessly to provide the best solution to whatever unique challenges our customers might face.

From innovative residential developments to cutting-edge commercial projects, we create spaces that help people realise their potential and improve quality of life.

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Maintain

Leading the way in sustainable building maintenance and retrofit solutions.

Our dedicated, highly skilled teams help to keep the nation’s homes, offices, shops, and public spaces clean, safe, healthy, energy-efficient, and fit for purpose.

We work with our customers and partners to design innovative solutions that support their net zero journey and deliver the most energy-efficient buildings possible.

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Our projects

We work with customers and partners from both public and private sectors to deliver excellent projects that make a real difference to people’s lives.

11 and 12 Wellington Place, Leeds

The intention for 11 & 12 Wellington Place was to create two landmark buildings in the heart of Leeds City Centre.

AESC UK – Car Battery Gigafactory, Sunderland

AESC UK’s new Gigafactory and its second battery plant in Sunderland – will employ over 1,000 people when operational in 2025, and deliver a six-fold increase in UK electric vehicle battery production in the UK.

Edgar Wood Academy Secondary School

The Edgar Wood Academy in Middleton is the very first school in the country to be procured via the Department for Education’s (DfE’s) Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) Framework and is the first of six MMC projects to commence on site that we are undertaking since our appointment to the framework in January 2020.

Gascoigne Estate Regeneration

The regeneration supports the overall Gascoigne Estate development plan in Barking. Be First has targeted the regeneration to tackle the housing crisis for the local area with the ethos of “building great homes local people can afford”.

Marks & Spencer stores fit out

We have delivered over 1,000 store refurbishment and fit out projects across the Marks & Spencer (M&S) range of stores, spanning everything from the installation of signage, the refitting and retrofitting of equipment, to the fit-out of entirely new stores.

Wembley Park

Consisting of 370 residential apartments, retail units, a community hall and low cost employment space, set around a landscaped courtyard podium deck over basement car parking.

Royal Hampshire County Hospital

New robotic pharmacy fit-out of the Burrell Wing at Winchester’s Royal Hampshire County Hospital. Our national fit-out and refurbishment business has completed the £4m refurb, which includes new administration office space, meeting rooms and an automated dispensing system, as well as the formation of a new shell for the hospital radio.