Transforming Euston Tower into a low-carbon, future-ready workplace through concrete retention and reuse.
Euston Tower, located at Regent’s Place in London’s Knowledge Quarter, is undergoing a major £600 million transformation led by British Land. Originally completed in 1970 as a commercial office tower, the 32-storey building has been largely vacant since 2021. The redevelopment will deliver approximately 560,000 square feet of new workspace designed specifically for life sciences, technology and innovation.
The scheme has been granted planning approval by Camden Council and is being delivered in collaboration with architects 3XN/GXN, Adamson Associates Architects and DSDHA. Arup is acting as engineering consultant, with academic support provided by the University of Surrey.
A central feature of this project is its commitment to circularity through concrete retention and reuse. Following a detailed feasibility assessment, it was confirmed that several major structural elements of the original building could be retained in-situ. These include the entire reinforced concrete core, the basement structure and the pile foundations. Together accounting for 31% of the building’s total structure. This decision significantly reduces the need for demolition and new material production, aligning with low-carbon construction targets.
While the existing concrete floor slabs are being removed to support modern reconfiguration and increased floor-to-ceiling heights, the project introduces a large-scale structural concrete reuse trial. This trial, the first of its kind in the UK, involves extracting sawn in-situ concrete sections from the removed floor slabs and testing their suitability for structural reuse. The trial is being conducted in partnership with the University of Surrey and Arup to generate real-world data on the performance, practicality and carbon benefits of reusing structural concrete in future applications.
The redeveloped tower will deliver 32 storeys of flexible workspace, including a range of supporting uses: 4,000 sq ft of restaurant and café space and 8,000 sq ft of enterprise space specifically allocated for local entrepreneurs and start-ups. Despite a 62% increase in total floor area, the development achieves this while maintaining a low upfront embodied carbon intensity of 613 kgCO₂e/m² (A1–A5). The building is designed to operate on a fully electric energy system and is targeting BREEAM Outstanding certification.
This redevelopment of Euston Tower demonstrates how existing concrete structures can be adapted and reused to meet modern performance, sustainability and commercial requirements, all within the physical and logistical constraints of a central London site.