The fit-out firm will convert apart-hotels in Long Lane, Earls Court and Bermondsey into the Residence Inn by Marriott brand.

The extended stay apart-hotels were previously operated by Think. Willmott Dixon will transform 500 rooms along with front and back of house services into the new Residence Inn by Marriott look.

Apart-hotel work is a new growth area in the hotel sector where the typical facilities support an in room lounge, kitchen and mini diner.

Willmott Dixon Interiors has built a track-record of working in live hotel environments, which includes a five-year relationship with Travelodge that has seen it refurbish over 8,500 hotel rooms to meet its brand standards.

Mike Hart, chief operating officer at Willmott Dixon Interiors said: “We have over a 1,000 rooms in progress or completed since mid-2016 with projects of all complexities and sizes.”

Willmott Dixon Interiors is delivering hotel sector work worth £43m including £1m refurbishments for three further Village hotels in the North with Willmott Dixon’s construction arm building an additional new 154 bed Village Hotel Club in Portsmouth.

The company was also behind Dorsett City Hotel adjacent to Aldgate underground station in London, a new Premier Inn hotel in Beverley, Novotel in Brentford and Holiday Inn on Commercial Road, in East London.