Anglo Holt Construction has won a £5.5 million contract to build its first ibis budget hotel.
The West Bromwich-based company was awarded the contract by Prime Property Edinburgh Ltd to build a 161-bedroom hotel at Edinburgh Business Park.
ibis budget, part of the Accor group, is a European leader in budget hotels with more than 500 hotels in 18 countries.
Andy Elwell, managing director at Anglo Holt, said: “ibis budget is a new hotel brand for us. However, over the past 13 years we have completed dozens of hotels including some of the UK’s leading budget chains and, as a result, we’ve become recognised experts in hotel construction. We are excited at the prospect of working alongside ibis budget and we hope this is the first of many projects we work on together.”
Minutes away from Edinburgh Airport, the business park has its own train station and is served by many buses. The hotel will be well appointed for the 9million people per year that use the airport. The greenfield site has undergone archaeological monitoring and will have a pre-cast concrete frame.
The 38-week project is due to start in August 2013 and be completed in May 2014.
Based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands, Anglo Holt has an annual turnover in excess of £50 million and employs around 100 people. Its objective is to guarantee to deliver quality, reliability and added value throughout the total process of design, construction, project management and cost management.