Places to live. Places to be proud of

With extensive experience in BTR frameworks, we’ve established expertise in product innovation, focusing on long-term asset ownership in larger, purpose-designed blocks. For BTR projects, we concentrate on design flexibility, integrated communal services, and standardised product specifications. We also incorporate scope to change superficial finishes over the long term.

Our specialist team has delivered numerous towers. We understand how to manage people and materials during high-rise building projects, as well as how to secure an envelope while the frame heightens. Our expertise includes external cladding systems, fire safety and the unique challenges associated with developing multiple apartments, floor by floor.

McLaren partners lease and franchise operators who don’t own their building, these often-well-known brands require a different input from their construction company. Focus is more commonly on repeatable design, construction efficiencies and delivering space to recognisable brand guidelines rather than producing bespoke solutions and unique detailed finishes.

Collaboration with the customer’s design team usually involves certain key drivers of smaller room sizes with efficient spatial planning, and maximising revenues in city centre locations.

Standardising elements produces economies of scale using materials that are highly robust, repeatable and replaceable for hotels that manage a volume footfall, making the project work for the available budget.

McLaren has a proud track record of delivering heritage hotels for long-standing customers with portfolios that contain historic and listed buildings. Our experience covers procurement and engaging stakeholders to deliver sometimes challenging works with a limited range of skilled suppliers.

Our specialism is refurbishment to create modern and efficient spaces that enhance a historic building and make it workable. Our Heritage Steering Team help to build the supply chain, always with an eye for cost efficiencies despite the challenging marketplace and the reality of shortages of skilled heritage contractors.

For all hotel construction projects, we provide full visibility of how every aspect will impact on live business operations, maximising efficiencies and protecting the guest experience, reputation and revenue stream at all times.

Our works dovetail with the operation of a live hotel so that interaction between sub-contractors, hotel staff and guests is planned to avoid disruption and disturbance.

Room upgrades are carefully phased with week-by-week scheduling and an open channel of communication with hotel management. Our collaborative approach means we can free up the highest revenue producing areas as quickly as possible, always keeping the number of unavailable rooms to an absolute minumum.

Physical barriers and clear signage segregates work areas to promote guest and staff safety and all exit routes are kept clear.