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One Exchange Square reimagines a 1980s office through a low-carbon cut-and-carve approach, delivering an 11-storey extension without new foundations. Innovative structural solutions retain 94% of the building, minimise embodied carbon, and create healthier, flexible workplaces that support urban regeneration around Liverpool Street Station.
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1 Victoria Street, Westminster, transforms a historically layered building into a sustainable, future-focused mixed-use destination. Retaining up to 52% of the existing structure significantly reduces embodied carbon, while new extensions, upgraded services and high-performance façades meet modern standards. Active ground-floor retail, high-quality offices and biodiverse green terraces support heritage sensitivity, environmental resilience and long-term urban vitality.
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Retrofitting commercial buildings is essential to reducing energy use and carbon emissions, yet delivering viable projects remains complex due to regional differences. This session explores how local market dynamics, regulations, asset values and investor expectations influence retrofit strategies across UK cities. Through real-world insights from developers, asset owners and building managers, the panel examines return-on-investment pressures, planning considerations and the challenges of implementing decarbonisation measures such as heat pumps. It highlights how tailoring retrofit business cases regionally is key to moving beyond one-size-fits-all solutions.
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