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A mammoth effort from all involved—delighted to share that we successfully secured planning permission last night for this landmark scheme in Westminster on behalf of Berkeley Estate Asset Management. With 51% of the building’s mass retained in situ and substantial circular-economy commitments to reusing existing site materials, the project stands as a brilliant example of sustainable redevelopment at a time when it’s needed most. B&CO CBRE Allford Hall Monaghan Morris NDY Heyne Tillett Steel Atelier Ten exigere Point 2 Caneparo Associates Kanda Consulting QUANTUM ACOUSTICS

Our team will be in Cannes next week - to meet with Andy Heyne, James Morgan, Laura Batty or Mark Tillett, get in touch directly or email marketing@hts.uk.com. James and Laura will be setting off on Club Peloton's #CycletoMIPIM this Thursday, taking on the 6-day challenge from London to Cannes to raise money for Coram, Cyclists Fighting Cancer and the Tom ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust. You can help them reach their £6000 fundraising target and support these vital causes by sponsoring them here: https://lnkd.in/eFcjPQZ9

We're thrilled to unveil our brand-new website! We've been working hard behind the scenes creating a new website and refreshed brand identity that aptly reflects the dynamic nature of the practice as we celebrate 18 years of Heyne Tillett Steel. We worked with the talented team at Rabbithole to build on our established brand and develop a new site that showcases who we are and what we do in a way that’s exciting, engaging and easy to navigate. As well as a completely new user experience from the homepage through to projects, news and people, we’ve added several brand-new sections including: ➡️ A dedicated HTS+ area, where you’ll find the latest research, tools and insights published by our self-funded research initiative ➡️ A new Services page, introducing our integrated approach to structural, civil and geotechnical engineering ➡️ A new ‘How we made it’ series of technical case studies exploring the process behind our projects (you can find that in News & Views) Head to hts.uk.com to take a look around, we’d love to hear what you think. 🎥 Dion Barrett

Timber Square has reached structural completion, topping out the largest commercial CLT structure in the UK.   Transforming a large industrial site in Southwark's Bankside area, Timber Square is a pioneering net zero carbon mixed-use redevelopment comprising 52,000m² of office accommodation across two buildings. The Print Building, a former printworks, retains 80% of the original structure, fully refurbished and extended with six additional storeys. Next to this sits the Ink Building, a new-build 15-storey office.   By prioritising retention, utilising engineered timber and incorporating reused steel, Timber Square leads the way in green building practices. 115 tonnes of reclaimed steel was matched and procured using the HTS Stockmatcher, saving 276 tonnes of embodied carbon compared to new steel. The structural design was further optimised for the use of over 50% scrap-EAF steel - steel primarily produced from scrap using an Electric Arc Furnace - which has a much lower carbon footprint than steel produced using traditional blast-furnace methods.   Marking this significant milestone for the project, Tom Watson, Director, commented: "A joyous afternoon at the Timber Square topping out ceremony, and a chance to reflect on some impressive stats: • The tallest building in the UK with CLT floors • The tallest building in the world with a hybrid steel and CLT structure • One of the largest (if not the largest) CLT projects in Europe, sequestering 4999 tonnes of embodied carbon Taller mass-timber buildings exist in the US, Canada and Europe - I hope this project helps progress regulatory acceptance to allow similar buildings to be developed in the UK."   Completing in Q4 2025, Timber Square is targeting Net Zero Carbon as well as other industry-leading certifications including BREEAM Outstanding, Well Platinum and a minimum NABERS 5-star rating, setting a benchmark for large-scale commercial developments with sustainable design at the centre. Landsec | Bennetts Associates | Opera | Heyne Tillett Steel | Hoare Lea | Turner & Townsend alinea #heynetillettsteel #hts #structuralengineering #engineer #engineering #structuraltimber #clt #steelreuse #htsstockmatcher #circulareconomy #retrofit #londonproperty

Reusing foundations – are you making the most of the opportunities? Below ground construction is typically composed of high-volume, resource-intensive materials like concrete, steel, and polymers. While their durability and integrity is paramount, their potential for reuse can be overlooked, missing a huge opportunity to reduce material waste, decrease embodied carbon, and drive more circular construction practices. Andy Tyler, Head of Geotechnical at Heyne Tillett Steel, will be discussing the ‘why’, the ‘how’, and what to consider when it comes to reusing foundations at tomorrow’s Exploring Reuse Opportunities: Below Ground Products webinar, hosted by the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products. Joining Andy will be Roy Fishwick, Cleveland Steel & Tubes Ltd; Iain Bell, John Lawrie Tubulars UK & Europe; and PIOTR BABST, Winkelmann Foundation Screw. Date: Thursday 30th January Time: 12:30-14:00 Location: Online Register here, free for ASBP members: https://lnkd.in/esv5y3f3 #heynetillettsteel #hts #structuralengineering #geotechnicalengineering #engineer #engineering #foundationreuse #concreteconstruction #circulareconomy #londonproperty

Should we impose stricter carbon targets on luxury housing? 🏢 Currently, a building's size doesn't affect whether it achieves embodied carbon targets or not - current industry targets are independent of a building's end use. 🏡 For example: both a mansion built for one person and a block of flats built for many, if both efficiently designed, may be classed as "low-carbon" despite having very different carbon footprints per person. ⚠️ We have a housing crisis and our carbon budget to 2050 is running low so we need to think very carefully about how we deliver the housing needs of the many within our planetary boundaries. 👓 Read our blog post about it here:  https://lnkd.in/erXg3pjm Heyne Tillett Steel

Thank you to all our clients and everyone we work with for helping to make 2024 such a great year. Rather than sending Christmas cards, we have donated to a number of charities that work hard to improve the lives of others in the UK and internationally. All charities were nominated by HTS staff, with the final selection made by our charities committee. This year we're supporting: Brain Tumour Research, UNICEF UK Children's Emergency Fund, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), Band of Builders and UNRWA. Our offices will be closed from the end of the day on Tuesday 24th December and will reopen on Thursday 2nd January. Until then we wish everyone a very happy holiday and a healthy and prosperous New Year. See you in 2025.

HTS+ in 2024 – what have we been up to? HTS+ is Heyne Tillett Steel’s self-funded research and innovation initiative, which I have the pleasure of leading. There are now six of us with a variety of skills and experience, including structural engineers, software developers, and we picked up a materials scientist this year too. While a review of the past year is not the most original idea, I’ve enjoyed putting this together – some of our projects take a long time to complete, as the objectives shift and new information is uncovered, and sometimes it seems like nothing progresses. But looking at this selection, alongside all the projects we have going on now reminds me that’s not the case. So here's a selection of what we did in 2024 (with links in comments): 🔸 We published the final report and summary conclusions for our research on reusing concrete-encased steel, a project supported by Innovate UK. This concluded that while it’s possible, recovering encased steel is difficult to justify. Please email hts_plus@hts.uk.com for a copy of the report. 🔸 We published a research report on aggregates in UK construction, looking at where they come from, where they are used, and what happens to recycled aggregates. Turns out we could find very little information to account for recycled aggregates. While the industry achieves excellent diversion of construction and demolition waste from landfill, we have almost no data on where it ends up. If anyone does know, please get in touch. 🔸 Following discussion and debate amongst colleagues, we wrote this summary of our current stance on the availability and use of #GGBS in concrete. No doubt this will be updated in the coming years, and we're happy to be involved in groups like the #ACDG and deepening collaboration with the concrete industry. 🔸 We’ve been revisiting concepts like structural reuse and adaptability and approaching them from a new, visual angle (with the help of our in-house graphics expert Rosemary Haggarty. More to share in 2025. 🔸 We’ve been exploring material supply chains to better understand which levers may have the most effect on decarbonising materials. This work will help inform our contributions to the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) Embodied Ecological Impacts Coalition too.   🔸 We continue to explore reusing concrete. Alongside the Heyne Tillett Steel project engineers, we designed reused concrete slabs as soft spot infills which was included for pricing in a project’s tender documents. A collaboration with 3XN/GXN with valuable input from Charlie Wedgwood. 🔸 We’re continuously updating and improving our project carbon database for ease of use, reporting, graphics, and underlying assumptions. It’s an internal tool that’s bespoke for our modelling workflow but we’re hoping to start publishing aggregated insights next year. Thanks to the team, to KLH Sustainability and everyone else we’ve collaborated with over the year. We’ve got lots of stuff cooking for 2025 too.

Hello LinkedIn colleagues, today I am asking the question: - Should timber structures benefit financially from the carbon they store?   🎄 Locking carbon away in long lasting timber structures provides society a great benefit by delaying the effects of climate change, but often its higher upfront costs mean that cheaper, more carbon-intensive structural materials, like concrete and steel, which don't sequester carbon, get chosen instead. 🤑 In many London boroughs, developments with big carbon footprints must pay considerably for their excess emissions to be offset through tree planting, but timber harvested from sustainably managed forests provide a similar carbon saving as the trees planted for offsetting.    🏗️ The benefits of timber sequestration should allow clients building timber structures to avoid paying for carbon offsetting at the end of their projects, and this relative financial benefit, compared to materials like steel and concrete, should be considered in the early design stages of a project when decisions about structural material are made. ✅ We must avoid incentivising the practice of emitting more carbon now and offsetting it later. If you are interested, you can read more about the topic in a blog post I have written here: https://lnkd.in/epUjWx8m Themes: Timber sequestration, Costs of carbon, Section 106 agreements, Dynamic lifecycle assessments. Heyne Tillett Steel

A few weeks ago, Charlie Wedgwood and I presented our thoughts on reusing concrete slabs at the IStructE Reusing Existing Buildings conference. Could it be the next generation of “precast”? Despite the abundance of concrete buildings, the reuse of structural concrete has not emerged. Donor elements are not deconstructed and stockpiled awaiting reuse, so there are no reused slabs available to fit into an existing design, like for reused steel. For this reason, we need to understand what is available as early as possible, through a pre-reclamation audit of a donor structure. A pre-reclamation audit looks at the existing structures/assets and (crucially) suggests what could be done with them. We think this illustrates the potential value of the final reused product and helps make the case for reclamation. At the conference I spoke about our experience designing with reused slabs, and Charlie gave the specialist engineering contractor’s perspective on how concrete structures can be dismantled safely on site. This is doable and has been done – see Corentin Fivet and team's work at EPFL in Switzerland – and get in touch if you’d like to discuss further. We’d love to see this happen in the UK. The Institution of Structural Engineers | Heyne Tillett Steel