London’s Largest Urban Renewal Offers Blueprint for Retrofitting Historic Buildings

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One of the largest building equipment manufacturers, Siemens, dispelled fears that tariffs would negatively impact its sales forecasts. Regarding tariffs, Chief Executive Roland Busch said, “Based on our assessment and including mitigating actions, we foresee a limited profit impact.” The company also said it would “act with a slow hand” when recalibrating its global manufacturing network to try to avoid tariffs. Siemens is not concerned about an economic slowdown either, predicting a sales increase of 3 to 7 percent for the year.

This week, we are exploring HVAC tech with a profile of London’s largest urban redevelopment project, King’s Cross. The 67-acre site was once used to warehouse goods like grain and coal but has now been transformed into a “city within a city” that is home to the headquarters of Google, Meta, and Nike. To preserve the culturally significant structures on the site, many of the old buildings were retrofitted rather than demolished. That created challenges for the developers, who have committed to making the buildings net zero carbon emitters by 2035.

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