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London is a demanding place to design, adapt, and build, shaped by dense sites, ageing assets, ambitious architecture, carbon targets, and evolving regulation. Thornton Tomasetti’s London office helps clients navigate that complexity with local expertise backed by a global firm.
Our team’s work spans high-rise buildings, refurbishments, sports and entertainment venues, aviation and transportation hubs, data centres, healthcare facilities, and master plans across London, the UK, Europe, and the Middle East.
We support buildings where efficiency, adaptability, and buildability need to be resolved early, from commercial towers and mixed-use developments to transport hubs, data centres, sports venues, and complex refurbishments.
Our team helps project teams make clear decisions on structural systems, grids, foundations, long spans, retained structures, vertical extensions, material use, and construction sequencing.
Façades affect appearance, planning, carbon, comfort, safety, cost, and long-term performance.
Our London façade engineers support design, detailing, performance analysis, procurement, diagnostics, remediation, and delivery. For existing buildings, we provide investigations and forensic support to identify defects, assess risk, and define practical paths forward.
Sustainability and resilience shape how London buildings are planned, funded, approved, and operated.
Our team helps clients reduce carbon, respond to climate risk, and improve long-term asset performance. Before assuming new construction, we assess what can be retained, strengthened, extended, adapted, or repurposed. Where major change is needed, we can support deconstruction, material recovery, and recycling strategies.
Public venues, transport hubs, commercial developments, civic buildings, and sensitive assets often need to be open, active, and secure at the same time. Thornton Tomasetti supports protective design, blast engineering, hostile vehicle mitigation, progressive collapse, crowd safety, and operational resilience, integrating protection into the building and public realm without compromising design intent.
Some projects require specialist analysis beyond conventional engineering.
Through Thornton Tomasetti’s global Applied Science practice, our London team connects clients to advanced modelling, simulation, and research-led engineering for energy infrastructure, nuclear, renewables, AI-driven infrastructure, performance-based design, and risk analysis.
Large-scale development requires a joined-up view of buildings, infrastructure, climate, energy, water, ecology, mobility, materials, carbon, and phasing. Thornton Tomasetti supports master planning with integrated teams across structures, façades, sustainability, resilience, and advanced modelling. We test scenarios, compare trade-offs and develop practical roadmaps for carbon, resilience, delivery, and long-term value.
Complex London projects need engineering that works on site. Tight access, retained structures, phased works, temporary stability, logistics, and demanding programmes can all affect delivery.
Our construction engineering team supports erection sequencing, temporary works, construction methodology, contractor coordination, and practical engineering adjustments that improve certainty during construction.
Stadiums, arenas, and entertainment venues require long-span performance, crowd safety, efficient delivery, and a strong experience for fans, operators, athletes, and cities.
Our London team supports sports and entertainment projects in the UK and internationally, connecting local delivery knowledge with Thornton Tomasetti’s global venue expertise.
Aviation terminals and transport hubs must perform at scale, with clear movement, resilient operations, large-span spaces, secure environments, and room to adapt.
Our London team supports aviation and transport projects with structural design, façade engineering, construction engineering, and resilience expertise.
London is a hub for work that extends well beyond the city. Our teams support clients and projects across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East, connecting local knowledge with expertise from across Thornton Tomasetti.
That reach also spans our AUKUS defence capabilities, bringing together expertise across our UK, US, and Australian teams to address complex challenges in defence engineering, infrastructure, shock testing, modelling, and technical assurance. This connected approach gives clients access to the right expertise across regions, disciplines, and markets, wherever the project demands it.
Rising above Canary Wharf in London, 10 George Street offers luxury residences with waterfront views.
20 Grosvenor Square in London.
Courtesy Turner & Townsend
We provided façade engineering services for the refurbishment of 20 Grosvenor Square, located in Mayfair in central London.
Courtesy PLP Architecture
Bankside Yards West contains three buildings on the Ludgate House site in London.
‘Phase 3,’ a key part of the regeneration of the Battersea Power station site in London, is one of the most exciting and innovative mixed-use neighbourhoods in the world.
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Thanks to some creative engineering, the rooftop of a disused car park in South London is transformed each spring into a place for art and culture.
(c) Hufton+Crow
Protecting history, redeveloping on a delicate footprint and setting a new sustainability benchmark. All at once.
Providing incubator laboratories and accelerator space, a bold building with a unique façade design joins the heart of London’s new research quarter.
Modernization of Kingsway called for stabilization of the historic façade and demolition of the entire steel and load bearing masonry structure.
Designed to house the second-largest religious collection in Europe, a new library aims to achieve a target of zero carbon emissions.
Courtesy Barratt London
Landmark Place is a new residential fixture located on the banks of the River Thames and near Tower Bridge.
Originally serving as a print and production facility, this historic structure now offers Grade A workspace behind its newly cleaned and repaired brick and stone Victorian façade.
Nova Victoria, Buildings 6 and 7, in London.
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Nova Victoria is a cluster of high-rise buildings that represents a new era for a vibrant section of London.
The façade design takes inspiration from the industrial heritage of the site and its historic link to the rail industry and freight haulage.
Courtesy Renzo Piano Building Workshop
As the third project in Shard Quarter redevelopment, Shard Place is a 26-storey residential building built above a two-story public realm and retail space.
A new office building rewrites the rules of sustainable construction in London, doubling size without adding weight, reusing foundations and setting a low-embodied-carbon record for the City of Lon
Courtesy Thorpe Precast / Threshold Photography
TIDE Bankside brings a high-performance masonry and glazing façade to a net zero office building on London’s South Bank.
A sculpture of a whale comprising five tons of plastic collected from the ocean highlights the staggering reality that there is now more plastic in the oceans, by weight, than there are whales.
AELTC/Thomas Lovelock
How do you minimize delays on rainy tournament days? With a retractable roof that opens and closes in 10 minutes.
A part of London’s Wood Wharf masterplan, two new residential structures feature hand-set masonry facades that reference historical wharf buildings found in the area.
Quintin Lake Photography
Inspired by traditional Ottoman architecture, the Arter provides a new home for an ever-growing modern art collection.
Eighty percent of Sweden’s train trips start or end at Stockholm Central Station, which is being transformed into a sustainable mobility hub that spans the tracks.
Courtesy M.M. Makronisos Marina Ltd.
Apartments in these twin towers twist to take full advantage of the panoramic Mediterranean views.
When the Iraqi government looked to create the country’s largest sports complex, it had to honor Iraq’s history and serve as an architectural beacon to the region.
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The two-story Panzer-Kaserne Army Base school was designed as a model for sustainable design and targeted LEED NC Silver certification.
Courtesy Tekfen Construction
Baku’s skyline gets a dramatic twist: Performance-based structural design powers the Central Bank of Azerbaijan’s iconic twisting tower.
Courtesy Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects
Copenhagen Airport is the largest airport of the Nordic countries and a vital transportation hub for the region.
Crystal Towers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Courtesy Henning Larsen Architects
Designed to be the new center for Middle East trade and finance, this 1.6 million-square-meter mixed-use development consists of 30 plots connected by a series of green recreational spaces.
A new performance centre coming to the heart of Edinburgh will be home to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Courtesy Mirax Group
Tower Vostok is the second tallest building in Europe and the first complex in Russia to utilize super high-strength concrete technology.
Among Dubai’s mirrored towers and car-dominated landscape rises a pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use development with a layered façade recalling desert sunsets.
Courtesy Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Engineering façades by optimising the work provided by Renzo Piano Building Workshop for The Shard in London.
Al Maryah Central Mall in Abu Dhabi.
Courtesy Gulf Related
Abu Dhabi’s first one-stop retail-leisure-dining-entertainment complex is a massive 380,000 gross square-meter (4-million square foot) structure at the center of the Al Maryah Island development.
Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Courtesy Pattern Design Ltd
Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium departs from the roof and façade models established for stadiums in Europe and embraces a design customized for the dry climate of the Middle East.
Marvila Masterplan in Lisbon, Portugal.
Courtesy MVRDV & OODA
A fragmented stretch of Lisbon’s riverfront is getting a second life, with 1,400 new homes, green corridors, climate resilience, and pedestrian-friendly public spaces woven into a single, unified u
An industrial site on Portugal’s coast is transformed into a carbon-neutral, resilient, sustainable community and benchmark for future development.
Courtesy David Chipperfield Architects
With its monumental archway, the Banco Santander headquarters forms a distinctive part of the city’s seafront overlooking the Jardines de Pereda and Santander Bay.
Simon Hsu photo
Inspired by the interweaving mountains, rivers and valleys indicative of Italy’s Lombardy region.
SKY SOHO in Shanghai, China.
Marco Jacobs photo
A unique building envelope that ties its undulating, elongated architectural features together with a sinuous retail podium, walkways and bridges.
Courtesy Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Betaplan
Three cutting-edge hospitals that bring a new standard in public healthcare in Greece.
The Arena in Diriyah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Courtesy HKS and @DGDA_SA
With the aim to attract residents and visitors alike to celebrate the birthplace of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this arena was designed to capture the geology and culture of Diriyah.
Courtesy Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Envisaged as a “forest” of wooden columns, the building will employ wood on an unprecedented scale, in both quantity and size, to reduce embodied carbon.
The Trilogy Seafront Development in Limassol, Cyprus.
Courtesy WKK Architects and Cybarco Development Ltd.
The largest mix-used development on the Mediterranean in the second largest urban area of Cyprus.
Courtesy David Roden Architects
Integrated structural and façade engineering and protective design supported a high-performance laboratory, office, and amenity space
Courtesy Henning Larson
Our carbon specialists raised the bar for embodied-carbon reduction, while integrated design services maximized the sustainability and efficiency of a new lab building.
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The redevelopment of existing farm buildings at Windmill Hill Farm into an archive and research facility, along with a new home for the philanthropic work of the Rothschild Foundation.