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Reduced working hours, more breaks and alcohol warnings are among the measures being introduced by contractors this week as the UK braces for record temperatures. The Met Office issued an “exceptional” weather warning for the temperatures on Monday and Tuesday, when the temperature in southern England is expected to reach…

Wates Group has announced the departure of its chief executive, David Allen. In a statement, the £1.63bn-turnover contractor said Allen will be replaced on an interim basis by chief financial officer Philip Wainwright, pending the appointment of a permanent successor. Allen joined Wates in January 2016 as its chief financial…

Developer British Land has been given the green light for its £3.5bn Printworks scheme at Canada Water. Southwark Council has voted unanimously to approve the scheme which is a joint venture between the council and the developer. It will see the construction of over 3,000 new net-zero homes and up…

Wates was helped to the top of the June league tables by securing a £250m contract to upgrade a series of UK prisons. The contractor was one of two firms that secured spots on a £500m contract to construct six new housing blocks at half a dozen prisons, according to…

Wates, Wilmott Dixon and Bouygues UK have won spots on a £2.5bn framework to build 7,000 new houses across London. The framework, tendered by housing association Notting Hill Genesis, will run for four years until June 2026, with the option to extend for a further two years. A total of…

Wates has pledged to make energy efficiency in social housing a key part of its work in the coming years. The contractor’s new pledge, Wates Retrofit, will focus on retrofitting the “vast” number of social homes in the UK that need work ahead of the government’s ambition to reach net…

Kier and Wates are to deliver prison upgrade works at six separate sites in a government contract worth £500m. The firms, which were chosen by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), will lead an alliance of hundreds of small businesses in constructing extra houseblocks at half a dozen prisons that will…

A local authority in North Yorkshire has taken Wates off a £32m regeneration project because of delays and cost issues, just a year after it was appointed. Last May, Wates entered a contract with the City of York Council to help deliver its Castle Mills scheme, which involved the construction…

A total of 44 construction firms have been named on a £35bn facilities management framework that requires reporting on modern slavery, prompt payment and improving opportunities for underrepresented groups. The framework provider Crown Commercial Service (CCS) named the winners, among which are the facilities management arms of Kier, Mace, Galliford…

Wates has started work on a £31.5m science centre in Oxfordshire, which will include office space, meeting areas and laboratories for quantum computing. The National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) is being built at Harwell, with the intention of bringing together experts in the academic, business and private sectors. Research will…