A commercial building has to earn its keep. It needs to use every metre well, meet a real programme and budget, and be let easily to tenants whose needs you cannot fully predict when the work begins.

We are known for delivering on constrained and technically demanding sites, and increasingly for reworking existing commercial buildings rather than replacing them. Retrofit keeps embodied carbon in place and often yields more usable space than a new build would on the same footprint.

Our award-winning Watch Factory building in Peckham shows what a workspace can do on a tight urban plot, and at Aldersgate House we are creating adaptable commercial space above a live Underground station, resolving the structural and logistical demands of building over active infrastructure. The result is commercial space that performs for the owner and for the tenants who make it their own.