Contractor will deliver 1,000-bed Portsmouth scheme and new hotel at Stansted Airport

Zurich House Portsmouth

McAleer & Rushe has landed a brace of major schemes worth a combined 拢78m, including a 拢52m design and build student housing job in Portsmouth.

The Portsmouth scheme (pictured) will see McAleer & Rushe convert and extend the city鈥檚 Zurich House office building into a 1,000-bed student halls for local developer Threesixty Developments. Construction of the scheme is set to complete in summer 2017.

The contractor has also won a 拢26m design and build job with Urban&Civic to build a 拢45m hotel at Stansted Airport.

Urban&Civic secured planning permission for the hotel after acquiring the two acre site from Stansted Airport owners MAG Property, the property and development division of Manchester Airports Group.

The 357-bed, eight-storey Hampton by Hilton will be located on Bassingbourn Road and will have direct access to Stansted Airport.

It is set to open summer 2017 and will form part of MAG鈥檚 拢260m investment to attract more passengers and airlines to the airport.

McAleer & Rushe has previously built Hampton by Hilton hotels at Gatwick Airport, Waterloo in London and Bournemouth.

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