The new 380-bed Hub by Premier Inn hotel for Whitbread will be built at King’s Cross in London and is worth £27m alone.

The Northern Irish firm has also won a repeat order worth £37m from Taylor Wimpey to deliver the second phase of its Westminster Quarter in London after complete phase one.

Knightsbridge Student Housing Ltd has also awarded the builder a £17m design and build contract for a 361-room student housing scheme in Southampton.

McAleer & Rushe is also working with KSHL to progress schemes in Portsmouth and Dublin comprising a further 1,000- and 400 beds respectively.

Martin Magee, managing director of McAleer & Rushe Contracts UK, said: “These new UK contracts are a testament to all of those in our design and build management teams.

“They have helped earn us an enviable reputation of delivering, even the most challenging projects on time, and on budget. They deliver solutions that cement client loyalty and drive our order book.”