HOTEL ARTES BARCELONA

A year after the Olympic Games were over in 1993, our Director Una McQuillan, went to Barcelona for a year and worked with MF Kent, now Kentz International, as an interior’s coordinator between the M&E Consultant and Contractor on the Interior Fit-Out of the upper 20-storey residential units. She was one of four women working on a building site, encompassing 2,000 construction workers, engineers, technicians and operative staff. Based on site for six months and co-ordinating the M&E drawings and overseeing the work on such a large construction site was a fantastic challenge and the start great work experience on large building sites. The hotel, which is five star and is run by the Ritz-Carlton Company, has since become an extremely well-respected destination for travellers visiting the city. The apartments overhead have been revered as some of the best in the city to live and stay in, with the upper two floors duplex apartment, gifted to the King, Juan Carlos II after it was completed.