Modular Milestone: Construction Set For OK’s First Offsite-Built Hotel
Date Posted: May 19, 2016
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From ConstructionDIVE: Oklahoma is getting its first modular hotel — the 142-room Marriott-Brand AC Hotel Bricktown manufactured by Guerdon Modular Buildings and built on site in Oklahoma City by Texas hotel developer NewcrestImage, according to Building Design + Construction.
NewcrestImage will build the ground floor of its first modular hotel via traditional methods, and then utilize 81 Guerdon-furnished modules for the rest of the five-story hotel.
Despite the rooms being manufactured offsite, NewcrestImage said the hotel would be “indistinguishable” from other Marriott hotels. Construction is set to begin next month, with an expected June 2017 opening date.
BD+C reported that in a previous interview with Guerdon CEO Lad Dawson, Dawson dropped a hint that the company would soon be manufacturing 1,000 hotel rooms a year for a major hotel chain, and a source told them that the chain is Marriott.
Modular construction is on the rise, and, according to the Modular Building Institute (MBI), modular hotel construction in the U.S. can help the hotel industry meet increasing demand.