A firm will be helping to bring the first budget Hilton hotel to the UK.

Civil and structural engineering consultancy Paul Waite Associates, based at Cross Hills near Keighley, will work on the first hotels of the Hampton by Hilton chain to be built on this side of the Atlantic.

Paul Waite Associates is a consultancy comprising design civil and structural engineers and architects.

It will start work on the first hotel, a £3.75 million hotel in Corby, Northamptonshire, this month and will next year work on one in Leeds.

Paul Waite, managing director of Paul Waite Associates, said the budget hotel market was still growing.