
Princes Arcade
Princes Arcade in St James’s is part of the Grade II listed building within which a major new restaurant unit has been created along with office, core and atrium refurbishment.


135 Park Street will comprise 13,616m² of Grade A accommodation located in London’s South Bank. The development is an 12 storey building comprising 13,475m² (NIA) of office area over basement to eleventh floor and 141m² of retail area located on ground floor. The office HVAC consists of 4-pipe fan coil units and central fresh air ventilation systems. Hot water for space heating and chilled water for cooling is provided by multi-function air source heat pumps at roof level. Domestic hot water for office toilets and showers are served by water source heat pumps utilising the heating circuit as a heat source.

Princes Arcade in St James’s is part of the Grade II listed building within which a major new restaurant unit has been created along with office, core and atrium refurbishment.

The exposed services strategy implemented at Fortess Grove compliments the industrial nature of the building. Cycling facilities are provided along with showers and lockers at ground floor level accessed directly from the rear of the building along Railey Mews. The development achieved a WiredScore certification of ‘Gold’ and a B rated Energy Performance Certification.

Watkins Payne were commissioned to undertake the design and refurbishment of the 2 retail units, 15 residential units and office space.

BRIT Insurance took 5 floors of the Leadenhall building with views over Tower Bridge and the Thames. The 60,000ft² of high quality office accommodation was fitted out to Category B.

A purpose-built student accommodation scheme at Cathedral Street, Glasgow.

The 47,900ft² area of The Smithson building in Farringdon was refurbished to high quality office accommodation, for which Watkins Payne supplied building services engineering, vertical transportation engineering and energy consultancy to achieve an EPC B rating. The refurbished area is spread across basement and ground floor.