Finsbury Dials

Cundall was appointed to provide multi-disciplinary services for the full refurbishment and reconfiguration of the building known as Finsbury Dials, London. With a strong focus on circularity, the design aimed to improve resource efficiency, be net zero carbon in operation, and significantly improve social value. The project is on course to achieve EPC A, BREEAM Outstanding, WELL Platinum, NABERS 5* and Wired Score Platinum ratings.

The desire to minimise carbon necessitated whole life and upfront embodied carbon assessments from stage 1, achieving a performance of 500kgCO₂/msq. This was accomplished by office floors being served with capped services, enabling tenants to connect their own fit-out designs whilst minimising waste. Our engineers also redesigned the building services central plant to include modern, high efficiency technology, and installed lifts travelling across 10 floors from basement to terrace.

Cyril Knabe-Nicol, Sustainability Associate, comments “Looking into the future, I see projects like these becoming necessary. We must embrace a circular economy and respect the ideas and materials used in the past. This project brought together a significant range of experts in collaboration and I think the final reconfiguration clearly shows the value of that.”

Key fact

The pink granite facade from the existing 1980s building was reused as aggregate to make tiles used in the refurbishment of Finsbury Dials.

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Key fact

The building contains a total of 8 scenic lifts and 2 goods lifts designed by Cundall’s vertical transport team, which integrate the specific security requirements of the tenants into the control systems.

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Rob standing in front of plants in London office

Robert Marney

Associate, Building Services

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The project itself is leading the way on how we change our working habits as a design team to deliver first class net zero carbon design schemes. The sustainability credentials that we are achieving has meant changes to the usual order of works so that certain things can be confirmed, and so the carbon impacts can be verified. Collaboration has been the key factor in achieving this, and the whole project team came on board with this. I look forward to continuing to work this way in the future.