Contractor McAleer & Rushe and Dominvs Group have signed contracts in excess of £100 million to develop hotels throughout the UK.

The first legal agreement signed by Dominvs was a £26m contract with McAleer & Rushe to design and build two hotels in Aberdeen close to the airport. The Holiday Inn Express has 193 bedrooms, and the 4-Star Crowne Plaza Aberdeen Airport will feature 165 bedrooms, meeting rooms and banqueting suites.

McAleer & Rushe began construction in March 2014, and the Holiday Inn Express is scheduled to open in June and the Crowne Plaza in September of 2015.


The next £25m contract to be signed in the New Year is for McAleer & Rushe a 306-bedroon Aberdeen-Airport-Hotel-Ifour-star Holiday Inn on Aytoun Street, in Manchester, the last piling was already recently completed at the site. This will be followed by a contract with McAleer & Rushe to construct a 200-bedroom four-star hotel conversion of the Grade II-listed Tower Bridge Magistrates Court in Tooley Street, London, SE1. Further partnership projects with Dominvs Group in London and Oxford are expected to follow.

The Aberdeen contract was signed for Dominvs Group by Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia, Chairman and Preetpal Ahluwalia, Hospitality Director at Dominvs Group. Chief Executive, Eamonn Laverty and Construction Managing Director, Martin Magee signed for McAleer & Rushe.

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