A busy refurbishment season
Autumn 2026 has brought a wave of significant UK hotel refurbishment projects, including a sympathetic restructuring of a Georgian townhouse property in Bath and a £42m renovation relaunching a former Hyde Park hotel under new branding.
Why hospitality refurbishment carries specific risk
Hotel refurbishment programmes must work around continued trading in many cases, adding scheduling and contractor coordination complexity that standard construction projects do not face. Materials and specialist contractor availability, already stretched by wider construction cost pressure, adds a further layer of risk.
Reducing delivery risk on live-trading refurbishments
Sequence work to minimise disruption to trading areas, secure specialist contractor and materials commitments early given current sector-wide capacity pressure, and build a clear escalation process for the inevitable scope changes that occur once work begins in an older building.
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