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Cookstown-based construction and development company McAleer & Rushe has raised £15,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support through a marathon golf challenge.

Macmillan provides invaluable therapists, nurses, benefits advisors and support line workers who make sure people living with cancer have the best team in their corner and no one has to face cancer alone.

McAleer & Rushe has a proud tradition of supporting charities that support people with cancer, and as a fundraising idea the Macmillan Longest Day Golf Challenge had particular appeal, as many in the firm are also keen golfers.

Starting at5.30am and finishing at 8.15pm the marathon challenge of four rounds of golf in one day at Killymoon was tackled with gusto by Avril Marshall, John Canavan and Declan McLogan on 31st July.

This was followed by a dance and auction in October and was a great success and £11,500 was raised on the night. McAleer & Rushe Chairman Seamus McAleer and Chief executive Eamonn Laverty contributed a further £3,500 taking the total amount to £15,000.

Declan McLogan, McAleer & Rushe Director of Safety, Health, Environment and Quality who arranged the fundraising events said:

“With more than 53,000 steps we covered 24 miles to complete the 72 holes. Macmillan is a very worthy cause. We have all known too many people whose lives have been affected cancer and know the tremendous support that Macmillan nurses provide”.

McAleer & Rushe has completed a substantial refurbishment and extension for British Land of Yalding House, the former home of the BBC Music Department, Radio 3 and Radio 1.

Yalding House at 152-156 Great Portland Street, W1 was built in 1930 and is located within the Harley Street Conservation Area.

British Land’s scheme designed by BuckleyGrayYeoman sees the building revitalised to the latest modern office standards with a full height extension to the rear and a rooftop extension on the fifth floor which increases the available floor space from 2,833sq m to 3,622sq m. The scheme also creates a new retail offer at ground level on Great Portland Street. McAleer & Rushe also worked on the external refurbishment to tidy up the existing façade of the building, whilst remaining architecturally sympathetic to the existing building and conservation zone.

McAleer & Rushe began work in July 2014.

BBC Radio 1Xtra was launched at Yalding House. Radio 1 broadcast its last ever show from Yalding House on 14 December 2012.

McAleer & Rushe began work in July 2014.

McAleer & Rushe Contracts Director Jonathan O’Neill said: “This has been a great project to work on and we’ve very much enjoyed working with British Land and BuckleyGrayYeoman to regenerate this unique historic building into a stylish contemporary office. This is our third recent project with British Land and the company’s game-changing ethos of excellence of is always inspiring.”

Gerald Eve advised British Land on planning.

McAleer & Rushe was delighted to sponsor the New Build category at the European Hotel Design Awards on Monday 23 November.

Celebrating exceptional hotel design and architecture, the Awards honour the work of industry-leading architects and designers, and the projects they create with hotel developers, owners and operators.

The winners of this year’s European Hotel Design Awards were announced at a glittering award ceremony attended by over 800 guests from across Europe, at the Park Plaza Westminster.

McAleer & Rushe’s Business Development Director James Hicken presented the New Build winner’s award to the Mandarin Oriental Bodrum, Turkey which also won the Spa and Wellness category.

The European Hotel Design Of The Year Award went to Les Bains, Paris. Nick Jones the founder of Soho House won the Outstanding Contribution Award.

McAleer & Rushe has sold the 234-bedroom Jurys Inn hotel in Brighton to the Charities Property Fund, managed by Savills Investment Management for £28.2m reflecting a net initial yield of 5.25%.

The hotel in the heart of the New England Quarter of the city, centrally located adjacent to the train station, was completed by McAleer & Rushe in 2008.

In February of this year McAleer & Rushe began speculative development of its City View, office building next to the hotel.

The six-storey Urban Innovations-designed office is scheduled for completion in January 2016. It is the first speculatively built large scale office in Central Brighton since 2005.

Knight Frank and Stiles Harold Williams are marketing City View.

The Charities Property Fund, which passed the £1bn milestone in assets under management in September, also acquired the Jurys Inn hotel in Derby from McAleer & Rushe earlier this year.
McAleer & Rushe Property Director Stephen Surphlis said:

“We think there is a very strong investment story for Brighton and are confident of securing headline rents for City View.

“The hotel has performed very well but we decided to take advantage of the strong demand for regional hotel assets and the uplift in covenant strength following Lone Star’s acquisition of Jury’s Inn in January”.

McAleer & Rushe was advised by Steerforth Partners. The Charities Property Fund was advised by Cooper Rose and Gerald Eve.

McAleer & Rushe has received planning consent for a 206-bedroom hotel on the site of the former Belfast Metropolitan College adjacent to Blackstaff Square.

The Cookstown-based developer, acquired the site just over a year ago and intends to develop the site with a mixed-use hotel and student accommodation scheme.

Belfast City Council approved plans designed by Belfast-based Consarc Design Group for the 14-storey development which will also comprise restaurants, bars and meeting and conference space.

The site sits within an area known as ‘The Linen Quarter’ which Belfast City Council and other Government agencies have targeted for major regeneration with plans including a major upgrade of the urban streetscape.

The hotel will have an entrance facing on to Blackstaff Square.

In a design and access statement submitted as part of the proposal, McAleer and Rushe said the hotel would make a “positive contribution” to the city by regenerating the site of an unoccupied building in the city centre.

It also said it would “create a strong development on a prominent corner” in the city centre and “improve the activity and dynamism in a developing area”.

Newcastle City Council today approved McAleer & Rushe’s £100m plans for a mixed-use scheme in the Newgate Street area of the city which will create almost 400 construction jobs.

The proposals include a 269-bedrooms hotel, student housing and 2,000 sq m of commercial space for retail, leisure or professional services use.

McAleer & Rushe also announced that the 575-bedrooms student housing element of the scheme will be operated by the UK’s leading provider of purpose built student accommodation, Unite Students.

The creation of 575 new student rooms will deliver £2m of net additional expenditure into the local economy. Unite already provides a home for over 46,000 students in 133 properties across 28 of the UK’s strongest university cities.

Nick Hayes Development Director at Unite said:

“We are delighted that planning consent for this exciting new development has been granted. The project forms an important part of Unite Students‘ ongoing regional development plans.

“Our core purpose at Unite Students is providing our students with a ‘Home for Success’. This means helping them achieve more from their time at university, whether that is academic success, personal growth or employability.

“Newcastle is an exciting university city attracting students from across the UK and internationally. As well as easing pressure on private residential housing in the area this new development will provide an important contribution to the local economy.”

McAleer & Rushe’s has delivered in excess of 20,000 hotel bedrooms and is on target to deliver 7,500 student bedrooms within five years of entering the student accommodation sector. The Northern Irish developer and contractor’s previous schemes in the locality include a major hotel, office and residential scheme at St James’s Gate and the 204-bedroom Jurys Inn NewcastleGateshead Quays.

Plans for a previous scheme for the Newgate Street shopping centre site were enhanced following extensive consultation with a myriad of stakeholders including Newcastle City Council and Historic England.

The scheme will be finished in natural stone to further complement the rich heritage of the surrounding buildings of Grainger Town. The overall size of the student and commercial elements were reduced and the hotel size increased, which has enabled McAleer & Rushe to enhance the public realm with the creation of new landscaped courtyards and a roof terrace. There will be a car parking and bike storage at lower ground level.

McAleer & Rushe Project Director Graham Mitchell said:

“This scheme has evolved through extensive consultation with many stakeholders. Today’s announcement is the culmination of a lot of hard work, engagement and collaboration to deliver the best possible scheme. We hope to start on site in 2016 and to deliver the student element by summer 2018. However this is a very challenging site and there are still a number of complexities across the 1.75 acre site, particularly in terms of the prominent city centre location, that we have to resolve.

“This £100m scheme signals McAleer & Rushe’s commitment to, and confidence in the City of Newcastle and we look forward to bringing forward further schemes. We are currently in discussions with a number of potential hotel partners for the hospitality element of this project.

“The addition of high quality student accommodation operated by Unite will ensure that Newcastle remains an attractive city to prospective students who will have the opportunity to live in modern and safe accommodation within close proximity to their university, city centre amenities and transport links. This in turn offers an opportunity for other areas within the city to be regenerated, as houses previously in multiple student occupation can be returned to family homes”.

Mitchell believes the demolition of the existing down at heel shopping centre will improve the aesthetics of the wider area, creating a more pleasant environment for pedestrians and improve the experience for all, particularly in the context of continuing re-positioning by the Crown Estate of The Gate, the Eldon Square Shopping Centre and the NE1 Bigg Market enhancement proposals.

Ian Kettlewell, Planning Director at the Newcastle office of Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners who advised on planning also highlighted the economic benefits the scheme would bring to this area of the City.

“Today’s news will deliver a £9.1m per year boost to the local economy over the two year build period. Not only will it support 390 direct construction jobs throughout the duration of the build but it will create a further 590 spin-off jobs supporting the supply chain and related services.”

“Once complete, the development will create up to 100 additional permanent jobs and up to the equivalent of 50 permanent jobs involved in the local supply chain”.

It has also been calculated the scheme will generate £3.4m of new homes bonus payments for Newcastle City Council and £450,000 of additional Business Rates receipts per year.

McAleer & Rushe Contracts UK has begun construction, for Whitbread, of a flagship ‘hub by Premier Inn’ at 62-68 York Way, Kings Cross, in London.

Whitbread is the UK’s largest hotel, restaurant and coffee shop operator with 45,000 employees.

McAleer & Rushe which was awarded the £30m contract to build the 389-bedroom hotel, took possession of the site at the beginning of September.

The Axiom-designed six-storey hotel which sits on a double basement is configured around three light wells. The brick façade is fenestrated with aluminium windows.

Piling is set to begin imminently. The hotel, which will be the largest hub by Premier Inn to date, is scheduled for completion in May 2017.

McAleer & Rushe Contracts Director Mark Elliott said:

“Over the years we have built many Premier Inn hotels and have developed a strong relationship with the client team. We are very much looking forward to delivering this showcase hotel, for this much lauded new brand. This will now be our fourth hub by Premier Inn, following the completion of St. Martin’s Lane, Covent Garden, and the ongoing schemes at Spitalfields, in East London, and in Edinburgh.”

For further information please contact: Robert Gibson at Grenadier on 0207 834 6263 / 07748 182 234

McAleer & Rushe joined Unite Students and King’s College London at the opening ceremony of their flagship student housing accommodation scheme Angel Lane in Stratford, east London.

Unite Students, the UK’s leading provider of student accommodation, and Russell Group university King’s College London proudly announced an extension to their successful partnership with the opening of the new London facility built by McAleer & Rushe.Excluding Angel Lane, Unite already provides over 1,000 beds to King’s in three London properties.

Angel Lane which reached practical completion on 27th August was one of McAleer & Rushe’s first student housing projects and its first partnership with Unite.

McAleer & Rushe Contracts Director Dominic Trainor said:

“We really enjoy working with Unite. On this project there was a spirit of true collaboration from the very first design workshops, and great integration with Unite’s operation teams. I like to think there is a real appreciation of our heritage of meeting challenges by rolling up our sleeves and sorting things out”.

Antony Arnold Construction Director at Unite said:

“This project has set the benchmark for our ‘Homes For Success’ initiative, with exceptional aesthetics, amenity space, and light, which all promote the well-being of our students. McAleer & Rushe did a great job delivering a challenging project on time and within budget, with a ‘wow’ factor quality of finish. They took on a series of third party issues and rather than reporting problems they consistently delivered solutions. We quickly gained a sense of confidence that the project was in a safe pair of hands, borne from an all-round competence of the contractor and the consultant team”.

The strength of the relationship established has been demonstrated by McAleer & Rushe being selected as a vested partner by Unite.

The 24,000m2 Angel Lane which rises over eight to 14 storeys is situated a stone’s throw from the Olympic Park and a major transport hub will become home to 759 students.

The site was particularly challenging given the location beside one of London’s busiest transport interchanges and the interaction with London Underground, Network Rail and HS1.

It was a particularly fast turnaround for such a large scheme with McAleer & Rushe only beginning on site in January 2014. One interesting innovation which helped facilitate this was the use of Gebrik brick cladding systems.

Angel Lane provides a solution to a key challenge facing King’s – a need for more purpose-built student accommodation to support growing student numbers.

King’s real estate development director Ralph Luck OBE said:

“We have ambitious plans to increase student numbers over the next few years and given our existing strong relationship with Unite Students they were the obvious partner to choose.”

Unite Students‘ managing director of Operations Richard Smith said:

“Delivering another property in this exciting area of London gives students another accommodation option, ensuring they get value for money and the best environment to succeed.”

For further information please contact: Robert Gibson at Grenadier on 0207 834 6263 / 07748 182 234

McAleer & Rushe has completed a 165-bedroom Crowne Plaza, the second of two Aberdeen hotels for Dominvs Group, weeks ahead of time.

The complete development was carried out well within a demanding 16 month programme. This significant achievement enabled the Crowne Plaza to open just eight days ahead of practical completion, remarkably six weeks ahead of schedule.

It follows the completion of a 193-bedroom 3-Star Holiday Inn Express Hotel on the first of May which opened just six days after practical completion.

The Crowne Plaza has 165 luxury executive, club and twin guest rooms, two bars and a restaurant. It also boasts eight meeting rooms and two conference rooms.

The hotels are the closest to Aberdeen International Airport and are connected by a covered walkway to the terminal, a mere five minute walk away. The airport offers flights to 48 national and international destinations connecting with key international hubs at Heathrow, Amsterdam & Paris.

McAleer & Rushe Contracts Director, Mark Diamond, said:

“We have really enjoyed working with Dominvs Group on both these projects. Their clarity of vision and collaborative approach help explain our team’s remarkable delivery achievements. There are many similarities in the professionalism and family ethos of both Dominvs Group and McAleer & Rushe that mean that other future projects are likely to be equally successful.”

Dominvs Group acquired the site for the hotels in November 2013, as part of a planned expansion of strategically-located branded hotels in key UK cities.

McAleer & Rushe is also currently working on a 306-bedroom Holiday Inn at Aytoun Street for Dominvs Group in central Manchester, which is due to complete in March 2016.

For further information please contact: Robert Gibson at Grenadier on 0207 834 6263 / 07748 182 234

McAleer & Rushe’s Chairman Seamus McAleer presented Endurance Land’s founding Director Jonathan Fletcher with a silver trowel to commemorate the occasion, at the roof top event.

Commenting on the City’s skyline shimmering the heat haze McAleer & Rushe’s Business Development Director James Hicken said:

“It is great to join with Endurance Land in another milestone event with such a wonderful backdrop.It only seems like yesterday when we were all together for a similar celebration on the roof of the nearby, very successful, Motel One. I would like to share our appreciation for the confidence shown in McAleer & Rushe that is shown by additional projects, like the office scheme in Chancery Lane, and we look forward to working on more schemes together”.

The project, which will be the first purpose built hub by Premier Inn, and will be rated BREEAM Excellent, has entailed the assemblage to date of 3,500 m3 of concrete, 110,000 bricks and 75,000m of cable.

Endurance Land Managing Director Jonathan Fletcher added:

“The sense of teamwork and partnership on the jobs we have worked on together is very much appreciated. We really like the collaborative and quiet problem-solving approach of McAleer & Rushe as a build partner, particularly on such a challenging site, on this demanding location.”