Expertise

Expertise for clients with buildings to unlock, budgets to protect, and technical complexity to solve.

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Trusted by developers, contractors, and architects.

We provide developers with full-service design from start to finish, optimising every opportunity.

We provide contractors with robust, compliant and buildable technical information.

We collaborate with architects to technically deliver their vision.

Three services, one studio, working across every scale of a place.

Our architecture service spans the full project lifecycle, from first sketch through to practical completion. We work closely with clients at every stage, translating ambition into buildings that are innovative, inspiring and rigorously executed, delivering lasting value across workplace, leisure, education and infrastructure, whatever the scale or complexity of the brief. We are commercial experts who specialise in adaptive reuse, understanding the constraints developers and owners face. Every building is assessed on a case-by-case basis, identifying the best route to decarbonise, maximise value and create a future-proofed asset, balancing technical rigour with commercial reality to unlock the opportunities.

Interior Design + Wates Construction Ltd
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How we work, the 5 strategies driving able.

Real estate is changing fast as are the tools to impact it. Every project is a chance to stop and ask what's really the best approach, not just the familiar one. We're at the vanguard of what's possible with technology and design, chasing original answers.

A modern brick building with large arched windows and curved glass at its corner, featuring ground-floor shops, on a sunny city street with pedestrians.
A modern brick building with large arched windows and curved glass at its corner, featuring ground-floor shops, on a sunny city street with pedestrians.
A modern brick building with large arched windows and curved glass at its corner, featuring ground-floor shops, on a sunny city street with pedestrians.
A modern brick building with large arched windows and curved glass at its corner, featuring ground-floor shops, on a sunny city street with pedestrians.

The buildings that got us here, and the ones taking us further.19 Projects