Private Members Club Contractor
The Finish Your Members Expect. The Discretion Your Club Demands.
Private members club refurbishment and fit-out across London. Bar and lounge upgrades, dining rooms, spa and wellness facilities, changing rooms — phased around your trading calendar and delivered to a specification your members will notice.
The Problem With Most Club Contractors
Most contractors treat a members club like a commercial restaurant fit-out. They do not understand the culture, the expectations, or the consequences of disruption. A noisy site during a Thursday evening dinner service is not an inconvenience — it is a resignation letter from your most loyal members. RCB treats private members clubs as a distinct category of client, with its own standards, constraints, and non-negotiables.
RCB programmes club refurbishments around trading calendars, delivers to interior-designer specification, and treats discretion as a baseline — not a premium.
What a Club Refurbishment With RCB Looks Like
Every area of your club — from bar and dining through to spa, gym, and changing facilities — managed as one coordinated programme.
Bar, Lounge and Dining Refurbishment
- Full bar redesigns: back-bar joinery, cellar reconfiguration, glass-wash plumbing, LED feature lighting
- Dining room upgrades: acoustic treatment, bespoke banquette seating, lighting redesign to ambience brief
- Lounge and reception areas: heritage finishes, concealed AV, feature fireplaces, bespoke millwork
- All finishes coordinated against your interior designer or brand specification
Spa, Wellness and Changing Facilities
- Wet area fit-outs: steam rooms, saunas, plunge pools, hammam treatment rooms
- High-specification changing rooms with full M&E, drainage, and ventilation coordination
- Gym and fitness studio upgrades: sprung floors, acoustic lining, rubber flooring, mirrored walls
- Accessibility compliance integrated without compromising design intent
Works Phased Around Member Activity
- Programme built around your quieter periods, annual closure windows, and trading hours
- Noise and dust containment as standard — member areas protected at all times
- Out-of-hours and weekend working for high-disruption phases where required
- Milestone handovers so spaces re-open for key club events and seasonal peaks
M&E, Fire Safety and Building Control
- Full M&E coordination: distribution boards, data and AV cabling, lighting control systems
- Fire alarm, emergency lighting, and sprinkler upgrades coordinated with club operations
- Building Control applications and completion certificates managed end-to-end
- Structural alterations, opening-up works, and underpinning where older buildings require
From Member Brief to Finished Space
A five-stage process built around your club calendar, your design specification, and your members' expectations.
Discovery and Programme Scoping
We start by understanding your member calendar, trading patterns, and any blackout periods. The refurbishment programme is shaped around these from day one — not retrofitted after the contract is signed.
Design Coordination and Specification Review
We work with your interior designer or brand consultant to review the specification for buildability, lead times, and cost. Value engineering is offered at design stage — not discovered on site.
Fixed Price and Programme Agreement
Detailed cost plan, itemised by area and trade. Programme with milestone dates. Payment schedule tied to completion stages. No ambiguity about what is included, what is excluded, and what assumptions underpin the price.
On-Site with a Dedicated Site Manager
One site manager throughout. Daily briefings to your club manager or operations team. Strict access and security protocols for all trades and deliveries. Dust and noise containment maintained — member areas protected throughout.
Phased Handover and Snagging
Each area handed over clean, snagged, and ready to trade. M&E test certificates, Building Control sign-off, and photographic records provided at each stage. No lingering snagging lists left for your team to manage.
Why Members Clubs Choose RCB
A principal contractor that understands high-specification environments, discreet delivery, and the commercial consequences of getting it wrong.
Principal Contractor. Not a Builder.
RCB Design & Build is a principal contractor with 60+ years combined experience. We coordinate design, structural, M&E, specialist finishes, and compliance under one umbrella. You deal with one point of contact — not six separate subcontractors each telling you something different about why it is someone else's problem.
Members Club Refurbishment FAQs
Can you work around our member events and trading calendar?
Yes — and we insist on understanding it before we price the job. Your member calendar shapes the programme, not the other way around. We identify blackout periods, peak trading weeks, and key events up front and design the phasing around them. If that means night working or weekend shifts, we build that into the cost plan from the start.
How do you manage discretion and security on site?
All trades working on your premises are vetted through our principal contractor protocols. We can implement enhanced background check requirements where needed. Site access is controlled and logged. Deliveries are coordinated to avoid peak member periods. We are used to working in environments where confidentiality and professionalism are non-negotiable.
Can you work to a specification from our interior designer?
Yes. We regularly work as the principal contractor delivering an interior designer's specification. We coordinate the build programme with your designer's procurement schedule, ensure the site is ready to receive bespoke and long-lead items on time, and manage the interface between the building works and the fit-out without requiring your designer to manage that themselves.
Do you handle listed building or heritage constraints?
Yes. Many private members clubs occupy listed or period buildings. We have experience working within the constraints of listed building consent, working with specialist conservation materials, and coordinating with local authority conservation officers. We do not treat listed status as a blocker — we treat it as a brief.
What is your minimum project size for club refurbishments?
We work on individual room refurbishments through to full club overhauls. Our minimum project threshold is typically in the region of £6,000 to £7,000, but most club refurbishment projects are considerably larger. If you have a specific scope in mind, we are happy to have an initial conversation about whether it is the right fit.
Ready to Refurbish? Your Members Will Notice the Difference.
Tell us about your club, your spaces, and your timeline. We will show you how we phase and deliver to the standard your members expect.