Fora

Chancery House

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Delivering 165,000 sq ft of flexible workspace for Fora.

At Chancery House, we transformed a historic but worn building into a vibrant, design-led environment that redefines modern workspace. The scheme centred on major reconfiguration, including extending the internal atrium to increase office space, forming a new roof and curtain wall façade, and opening ground-floor lightwells to create courtyards as well as a new third-floor terrace. Extensive structural interventions and a high-quality fit out, fitness studio, rooftop terrace and generous natural light, shows that office space doesn’t need to look like the office.

Client
Fora
Value
£30m
Duration
21 Months
Manager
Opera PM
Architect
dMFK Architects
QS
Castle Hayes Pursey
Services
Environmental Engineering Partnership
Structural
Heyne Tillett Steel
Person
Rob Carr
Director Rob Carr

    Complex structural works combined with design-led fit out.

    The scheme centred on major reconfiguration, including extending the internal atrium to increase office space, forming a new roof and curtain wall façade, and opening ground‑floor lightwells to create a series of courtyards. Throughout the project, the team resolved complex spatial and floor‑to‑ceiling constraints, coordinating services within tight tolerances and managing intricate drainage routes above the London Silver Vaults. Bespoke scaffold solutions were developed to protect ventilation systems during commissioning. Refined detailing, from large‑format tiling to specialist amenities, completed the transformation, delivering a contemporary workspace rooted in craft and precision.

    "Chancery House was my first construction project after I left sixth form college. It is a huge building and I saw it from start to finish; the project had everything: cut and carve, extensions, steel works, external works and fit out. Not every job comprises all this work, so I learnt a lot, and now that it is fully finished with tenants, it feels like a real accomplishment.
    Working on Chancery House made has made me glad I chose this career. I have had the opportunity to see my work as a finished project and that makes me look forward to the next site."

    Tom Stubbington, Collins Assistant Quantity Surveyor
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