News & Views
Spring 2025 Promotions
It's an exciting time of year as we celebrate our team's achievements and announce a series of well-deserved promotions in London and Manchester.
Topping out at Timber Square
Timber Square has reached structural completion, topping out the largest commercial CLT structure in the UK.
HTS+ in 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, Laura Batty, Senior Associate, takes us through some of the research and innovation produced by HTS+ this year.
Introducing the Engineers Reuse Collective
HTS joins forces with five other UK engineering firms to launch a not-for-profit group committed to accelerating reuse in the built environment.
How we made it
How we made it: 76 Southbank
How we refurbished Denys Lasdun’s iconic Grade II listed design to fit the needs of a contemporary workplace.
How we made it: 3 Copper Square
With a hybrid structure of pre-cast concrete frame and CLT panels, 3 Copper Square is the first of its kind in Europe.
How we made it: Featherstone Building
A new 5- to 10-storey reinforced concrete office building that showcases the exposed concrete frame within the constraints of the site.
2025 Graduate opportunities
Applications are open for our 2025 Graduate intake. Find out more about life as an HTS Graduate Engineer and how to apply.
From summit to sea: adventures in Snowdonia
Our London and Manchester teams came together in North Wales to take on hiking, gorge scrambling, mountain biking and more on our annual trip.
Community Gardening with Grown in Hoxton
This summer we volunteered our time to help our neighbours at Grown in Hoxton maintain the local community garden on Chart Street.
Laura and Emily complete pedElle 2024
Laura Batty and Emily Exford took on a challenging 3-day, 450km cycle through southern Poland and raised an impressive £2005.
Science Buildings: The Path to Net Zero
Pioneering net-zero life science research and design report, in collaboration with Bennetts Associates, Turner & Townsend Alinea and Hoare Lea, launched at UKREiiF 2024.
Structural completion at 76 Southbank
76 Southbank has topped out, a significant milestone for this concrete-framed, Grade II listed office building on the banks of the Thames.
Rethinking real estate reuse for life sciences
Insights from our Adaptive Reuse for Life Sciences roundtable, hosted at our Chart Street studio and chaired by Evelina Grecenko of Estates Gazette.
How we made it: Victoria House
A Grade II listed building transformed into a life sciences hub with wet-lab, dry-lab, and office spaces spanning multiple levels
Are we delivering future life science white elephants?
James Morgan discusses the risk of over specifying life sciences buildings and increasing embodied carbon in the context of the shortening life cycles.
5 minutes with...
5 minutes with… Ben Brown
Ben shines a light on some of the recent research projects he's worked on in the HTS+ team, and discusses the key drivers in his career to date.
5 minutes with… Emily Exford
Fresh from the hills of Poland, we caught up with Emily to discuss her path into engineering, her work at HTS and her recent pedElle experience.
5 minutes with… Carmel Lennon
Carmel is a Director and heads up civil engineering at HTS. We spoke to her about her career, how the team has evolved and what they bring to projects.
How we made it: 105 Judd Street
How do you upscale an existing Edwardian office building into a modern dual-purpose building for both office and laboratory needs?
How we made it: Sycamore House
Transforming an industrial building into a unique life science co-working space with high-tech labs, flexible offices and communal spaces.
HTS is now a Certified B Corporation
We are delighted to have achieved B Corp Certification, joining a global community committed to using business as a force for good.
Our Engineer Pitch: The Structural Playbook
Presented at the 2023 Engineer Pitch, our structural playbook looks at transforming unwanted office sites into high quality residential space.