Engineering consultancy Buro Happold is relocating its 600 Bath staff to a new low-carbon headquarters at Pinesgate West. The project is a back-to-frame retrofit that retains the existing concrete structure and adds a high-performance facade, targeting WELL Platinum and BREEAM Excellent certification. The move keeps the firm in its founding city as it celebrates 50 years in business. Retrofits like this one show how commercial real estate can cut embodied carbon by reusing structural elements instead of demolishing and rebuilding. The focus on certification standards also sets a benchmark for other companies planning office upgrades. For anyone tracking building decarbonization, this is a concrete example of design engineering applied to existing stock.
