It hasn’t been that long ago that Marriot Hotels discovered that modular was a more reliable and faster way to build their hotels and soon just about every other hotel chain followed their lead. Today it seems the modular construction industry has become the “Go-To” way to build hotels.
What makes this story about a new modular hotel in California is just how gorgeous it looks.
Next February, FullStack Modular, a leading supplier of prefabricated modules, is scheduled to begin production for its first project in California, an 86,000-SF, six-story, 143-room hotel that will be the Treehouse Hotel brand’s debut in the United States.
In an interview with BD+C, Roger Krulak, FullStack Modular’s president and founder, said that his company will produce 200 modules for this project from its manufacturing plant in Portland, Ore. (FullStack’s other plant is in Brooklyn, N.Y.) He estimates that the production would take less than six months, and assembly another three months. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Synergy Modular is the project’s general contractor.
Krulak believes that Starwood chose FullStack Modular for its fully integrated system approach: its modules are delivered with electrical, plumbing, and mechanical components and systems installed. The building’s façade is also installed at the factory, as are each units’ fixtures and finishes. The building doesn’t require a concrete core and, where necessary, can be rigged at the factory for seismic resistance. Even furniture can be included. The only on-site construction, said Krulak, involves the building’s hallways and elevators.
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Gary Fleisher is the Editor in Chief of Modular Home Source and Offsite Builder.
Gary Fleisher, Editor in Chief of Offsite Construction Magazine
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