Wates has guided 39 students in London through what it claims is a new kind of work experience that offers young people a much broader opportunity to discover a career in construction.

Wates Residential has launched a campaign to find innovative sustainable technologies and materials to help it to build net zero homes.

Wates and Turner & Townsend have won a role to design and project manage the construction of a £450m car battery Gigafactory for Nissan and Sunderland City Council.

National framework provider Pagabo has concluded a successful trial of a mental health monitoring device with nearly 400 volunteers.

Wates’s residential arm has adopted AI-led site progress monitoring technology from Buildots on the Orbit’s Park East residential project in Erith, south-east London.

Offsite contractor Innovaré Systems has turned to PlanRadar to centralise its snagging process.

Wates has won a pre-construction role on a ground-breaking British Library archive facility in Boston Spa.

Wates has started construction on some of the UK’s first net-zero schools, under the Department for Education’s (DfE) Schools Rebuilding Programme.

Wates has appointed a new corporate development director to help deliver the construction and development group’s strategy, including its diversity and sustainability goals.

Wates is to offer 4,000 employees training to help them build personal resilience to boost their mental health and wellbeing.

Camden Council in London is seeking contractors to undertake recladding works on Blashford Tower – one of the blocks within the Chalcots estate – following the departure last year of Wates, which had been on site for the works under a “letter of intent”.

Wates has started to remove equipment from the Chalcots Estate in London, where it had been working on the remediation of ACM cladding, after Camden Council decided to re-tender the…