Wates is one of the UK’s largest private construction companies. With revenues of £1bn+ the company is going from strength to strength.

In 2009 Wates Group was named Major Contractor of the Year by Building magazine, alongside Sustainability Contractor of the Year, Sustainability Champion of the Year and Paul Drechsler was named Chief Executive of the Year.

Now to go alongside their awards, they have a dynamic new web presence. Built using Drupal we’ve, just launched their main Group website www.wates.co.uk after months in our development pipeline.

Working with our partner Ferrier Pearce’s design, the site is built to emphasise Wates’ industry leading activities through the use of video, project stories, slideshows and authored thought leadership pieces. There is a huge variety of content stored within the CMS system we developed, all editable by Wates themselves and accessible to you the user via our unique “live search” feature.

Commenting on the new site, Wates Head of Communications, Belinda Murray said of the Catch and Ferrier Pearce team: “I just wanted to let them know how much we appreciated their marvellous help, support, enthusiasm, whip cracking and spectacular creativity in producing our beautiful new website. It was a huge task and they were great partners to work with.”

www.wates.co.uk

We’ve been working with the UK team at Prime Focus for the last 5 months developing the digital side of their global brand consolidation launch. We’ve just put the first phase live at www.primefocusworld.com.

We built in Drupal, utilising buckets of Flash and AJAX. There are gigs of slick video content to browse featuring everything from VFX for Quantum of Solace, Dragonball: Evolutions, Harry Potter and Superman Returns to Kasabian & U2 pop promos and car ads. If you’re short on time check out the house showreel, it sums up their prolific output succinctly.

At a packed Odeon in Leicester Square last night, founder Namit Malhotra announced the transformation of its global facilities into a single global company under a new Prime Focus brand. This includes the consolidation of Prime Focus London, blue and Machine (UK), Post Logic and Frantic Films VFX (USA) and Prime Focus Group in India. This enables the Prime Focus ‘global digital pipeline’ by seamlessly interconnecting the 15 Prime Focus offices around the world.

London was chosen for the first launch event, the rebrand will continue to be unveiled through launch events in Los Angeles and Mumbai. Should be noted that certain members of the Catch team are still recovering from the one last night!

We continue to work with Prime Focus on a number of other equally exciting projects based around their new launch – watch this space.

Are you a student that likes the finer things in life? Say living in a loft-style duplex room or a penthouse suite with far-reaching views? Then the private student accommodation built by iQ is for you.

As a new brand in the private student accommodation market, iQ is a specialist product from Quintain Estates & Development and boy do they offer some swish student pads.

Expanding rapidly, there are currently nine schemes available for 2009 and two more on track for 2010 and we’ve just designed and built the website to support this expansion to drive sales enquiries straight to the sales and management teams nationwide.

View the site at www.iq-student-accommodation.com or read our case study by clicking here.

MIPIM is the world’s premier real estate summit, this year it’s in swanky Cannes, France.

Invest Northamptonshire needed to advertise their return to MIPIM, after a successful turn there in 2008. They wanted an informative modern yet clean design with advanced functions such as a site search engine, as well as text content video was also going to a main distributor of information. A real joint effort, working with our two sister agencies Ferrier Pearce and First Image we produced a four minute promo video to support our website and a highlights video of Kevin McCloud’s construction lunch speech, which was filmed, edited and uploaded to the website within one hour of the speech.

We produced this clean, simple to follow, design that contained large amounts a information, judge for yourself at http://mipim.investnorthamptonshire.co.uk

Technologies used: xHTML, PHP, jQuery, GoogleMaps, Flash

We’ve been hard at work producing the new iQ student accommodation website, but in the meantime we’ve put this microsite up to give a taste of Quintain’s new brand.

With six exciting schemes already in operation nationwide and three more on track for 2009 this is shaping up to be quite a site. With Google mapping, ‘The Hub’ social networking and more.

See the microsite at www.loveiq.co.uk, and await the full website in early 2009 with baited breath! While you wait, why not try your luck in the competition, there is one Nintendo Wii a month up for grabs until July 2009.