All-electric West End office reaches practical completion

Derwent London has announced that its Network W1 office project, located on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Howland Street in central London, has reached practical completion.

The all-electric building comprises 12,662m² of fully-let workspace across 10 floors, a double-height reception area, a private terrace and roof garden, as well as two ground-floor retail units.

Designed by Piercy & Company, the scheme is said to deliver an intelligent, mixed-use building that responds to its prominent location by bringing architectural and public realm improvements to the area.

Working on behalf of main contractor Kier, Bourne Steel fabricated, supplied and erected the steelwork.

Throughout the building, steel beams support precast flooring planks for a composite solution. The building’s concrete core, the underside of the precast planks, as well as many of the steel beams and columns, are all exposed in the completed structure creating modern industrial-looking floorplates.