{"id":32088,"date":"2025-08-30T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/john-f-hunt-starts-work-on-150m-west-end-office-revamp\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T21:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:50:12","slug":"john-f-hunt-starts-work-on-150m-west-end-office-revamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/john-f-hunt-starts-work-on-150m-west-end-office-revamp\/","title":{"rendered":"John F Hunt starts work on \u00a3150m West End office revamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>John F Hunt has landed the deal to kick-start work on a \u00a3150m plan to overhaul the 125 Shaftesbury Avenue building in Central London.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Enquirer<\/em> understands the specialist has now started on a six-month contract to \u00a0strip-out and declad the entire structure.<\/p>\n<p>Developers Edge and Mitsubishi Estate secured planning earlier this year to transform a 1980s block into 250,000 sq ft of workspace with a new-look entrance on Charing Cross Road and rooftop terraces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"756\">The project, known as EDGE Shaftesbury, will retain around 75% of the existing structure to cut embodied carbon and is targeting BREEAM Excellent as part of Edge\u2019s push for sustainable design.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"756\">The project will increase the building\u2019s height from 11 to 13 floors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"756\">A main contractor for the job is due to be announced shortly with the race now understood to be down to Bovis and Sir Robert McAlpine.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/08\/29\/john-f-hunt-starts-work-on-150m-west-end-office-revamp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] John F Hunt has landed the deal to kick-start work on a \u00a3150m plan to overhaul the 125 Shaftesbury &#8230; <a title=\"John F Hunt starts work on \u00a3150m West End office revamp\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/john-f-hunt-starts-work-on-150m-west-end-office-revamp\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about John F Hunt starts work on \u00a3150m West End office revamp\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}