10th Nov 2025

Honouring service and sacrifice: Remembrance Day 2025

This Remembrance Day, we reflect on the contributions of our team members with military backgrounds, celebrating the resilience, leadership, and values they bring to our company.

Honouring the service and sacrifice of our military veterans

Remembrance Day is a time to honour those who have served and sacrificed. For team members with military backgrounds, it’s a day of deep reflection and pride. Their stories remind us of the strength and resilience they bring to our work every day, and the meaning this day holds for them is something we all feel. Through their experiences, we gain a unique perspective on how values forged in service continue to shape our workplace and inspire us all.

  • Defence ERS Silver Award

    We have been awarded the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) Silver Award, which recognises employers who have shown exceptional support to the Armed Forces community, including reservists, veterans and military families. 

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Latest on our military veterans

  1. Attracting more military women into construction

    23 Mar 2026

    Last month, Rachael Smith, People and Culture Executive Director at Sir Robert McAlpine, and Katy Maloney, Trainee Quantity Surveyor, spoke at the Empowering You Conference with Forces Employment Charity.

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  2. Recipients of Armed Forces Community Fund announced

    04 Dec 2025

    Our grants, each worth up to £5,000, will support initiatives which help individuals and groups connected to the Armed Forces community

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  3. Our commitment to the Armed Forces community recognised

    07 Nov 2025

    We were formally awarded our Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Silver Award at an event at the Honourable Artillery Company in London

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Latest news

  1. Celebrating the 125th anniversary of WHR's Mallaig extension

    01 Apr 2026

    The extension opened on 1st April 1901 and contains a series of major viaducts, including the iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct

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  2. Agratas celebrates milestone with topping out

    26 Mar 2026

    The team gathered to celebrate a topping out ceremony following steels completion in late January

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  3. Attracting more military women into construction

    23 Mar 2026

    Last month, Rachael Smith, People and Culture Executive Director at Sir Robert McAlpine, and Katy Maloney, Trainee Quantity Surveyor, spoke at the Empowering You Conference with Forces Employment Charity.

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