Providing a home away from home

• Transformed Grade II listed building, from former brewery and whisky warehouse into premium commercial space for students, achieving BREEAM Excellent rating.  
• Utilised off-site manufacturing for columns and edge beams, enabling 48-hour floor slab casting and delivering the project 18 weeks ahead of schedule. 
• Won Silver at the 2013 Considerate Constructors Awards, recognising the project's commitment to community engagement and site management.

Blending a historic landmark building with a new 18-storey tower in the centre of London’s most exciting cultural quarter was always going to be a challenge. But by working collaboratively as developer, project manager and contractor, we brought together expertise from across Mace to restore and radically transform Assam Place. 

Our team turned the Grade II listed former brewery come whisky warehouse into a high-specification mixed-use development, combining luxury student accommodation and premium commercial space. The result is a new type of accommodation for students at the heart of the city where the worlds of finance, technology, media, art, and fashion meet to form a dynamic and creative hub. 

Assam Place marked our first step into the world of development and therefore played a vital role in shaping the future of our wider business.