Developer Marlin Apartments has awarded McAleer & Rushe a £28m contract design and build construct for a hotel-led mixed-use development in London.

The firm will demolish Costain’s 1950s former headquarters  at 111 Westminster Bridge Road in Waterloo to make way for the 150,000 sq ft scheme.

The portland stone and brick-clad building will consist of 218-room apart-hotel, six office suites, a restaurant and shops.

Adjoining the Grade II listed Necropolis building at 121 Westminster Bridge Road, the hotel rises from seven stories at the front to 10 at the rear.

McAleer & Rushe construction managing director, Martin Magee said: “We are very much looking forward to working in further partnerships with Marlin Apartments on other future projects in both London and Dublin.”