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Wates Construction and SCAPE deliver more than £58m worth of social and local economic value during 2020

26th February 2021

Wates Construction and SCAPE deliver more than £58m worth of social and local economic value during 2020

Wates Construction overcomes Covid challenge to deliver new Gateshead SEN school

17th February 2021

Gibside School

Lockdown learning has given us lessons for the future

2nd February 2021

Construction completes at £22m Loughborough Commercial Park

6th November 2020

£58.5 million state-of-the-art Nottingham College City Hub completes

19th October 2020

Wates Construction delivers landmark £33m leisure centre for Windsor & Maidenhead Council

8th October 2020

Milestone reached at £73 million aquatics hub

1st October 2020

Operating an essential site during uncertain times

2nd July 2020

Working together to create environmental sustainability and enhancement

11th February 2020

Wates Appointed As Main Contractor To Build Sandwell Aquatics Centre

5th February 2020

Warrington Set Out On New Housing Venture

27th January 2020

How Wates can help in achieving the Mayors ambitious Homes for Londoners targets

7th January 2020

City Hub contractor consolidates commitment to Nottingham

18th December 2019

Creating efficiency through collaborative working

2nd December 2019

Topping out ceremony held for science park building

15th November 2019

Alistair McCallum: preserving public sector spend and creating certainty through frameworks

2nd November 2018

Mark Tunstall – Working together for leisure

12th September 2018

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Alan White

How did you get into construction?
My Journalism degree got me my first job at Wates in 2010, when I joined the North West’s work-winning team. I soon moved into a business development role, moving around the business to gain experience in Construction, Smartspace and now the Scape team.

What do you enjoy most about your current role?
I love speaking to customers. This gives me the chance to learn how the public sector is developing and regenerating our towns and cities, and it’s hugely rewarding to offer solutions to help them achieve this. Meeting new people and developing existing relationships is the best part of my job.

What are you most proud of?
Professionally, identifying customer problems and collectively solving them is very fulfilling, for example reducing the proposed cost of a new leisure centre by 25% in six weeks. Personally, I’m not ashamed to say that I’m immensely proud of some of my achievements as a competitive runner in recent years.

Dom Somerville

How did you get into construction?
I went to an Architecture fair when I was 14 and was really interested in how buildings were designed. It inspired me to want to become an Architect!

What do you enjoy most about your current role?
The variety of work we do across multiple construction sectors from schools, to offices, to leisure centres, to working with the MoD – no 2 weeks are ever the same.

What are you most proud of?
Schemes where clients have come to Wates with a specific requirement and need and where we have put together teams to respond and deliver often beyond what that customer ever expected.

Alistair McCallum

How did you get into construction?
Simply I answered an advert from a PQS company in Solihull. I wanted a varied career that was neither a desk job nor working outside all the time. I also wanted a career that saw me working with a variety of people. I also like ‘building things’ and seeing something that I’ve had a part in creating.

What do you enjoy most about your current role?
I most enjoy the diversity in my role, how every day is different. I can be in an interview one day selling the benefits of Wates and Scape to a customer, to chatting with existing customers to find solutions to complex problems to organising and presenting at careers events in schools and colleges. Also, being part of a team that strives to be a force for good and a catalyst for positive change. Moving forward within a team in the pursuit of excellence is incredibly rewarding, where new, fresh ideas are encouraged and embraced and can make it to strategy or policy within the business.

What are you most proud of?
I’m lucky enough to be part of the team that won a place on a Scape regional framework, not once but twice. And in doing so being the enabler to expand the Wates business into the East Midlands. I’m also incredibly proud of being one of the team members who won the interview securing the Aquatics Centre for the commonwealth games. Finally, the work we do in supporting reshaping tomorrow including raising the profile of Social Enterprises to customers, careers events with pupils and tree planting in Markfield as part of planting 15,000 trees by 2021.

Helen Drennan

How did you get into construction?
By default! I met a Director from a construction business whilst studying for my CIM Diploma and he convinced me to apply for a vacancy at the company he was working for. That was almost 25 years ago, and I’ve been working in the industry ever since.

What do you enjoy most about your current role?
The diversity – every day is different. I also love being customer facing and continually meeting new people.

What are you most proud of?
My family. My kids are both pursuing their own career goals now. I hope I’ve managed to inspire them to aim high and give it their all.

Alex Jefferson

How did you get into construction?
I wanted a job with variety after finishing school and felt that a career in construction could offer me that. After completing a degree in Civil Engineering, I started on sites in London as a Site Engineer. I have since moved through Project Management, Bid and Pre-construction roles and have certainly found the variety that I was after.

What do you enjoy most about your current role?
I enjoy meeting new Clients, being able to offer solutions to their challenges and ultimately seeing a construction project through its whole cycle from inception to completion and occupation by its users.

What are you most proud of?
I really enjoy being able to pass by buildings that I was involved with from years ago, see how they have integrated into their surroundings and how they are used now by their users. Some of the buildings are getting older, but I am pleased that I am not quite old enough to have had one of my projects demolished yet!