This article in Seattle’s Daily Journal of Commerce should send shivers up the spine of every East Coast based residential and commercial modular home factory.
Take a few minutes to read it and ask yourself if you were ever contacted to build this. IF NOT….why not?
New York City architect, professor and television host Danny Forster was in Seattle Friday to talk to local AGC members about cutting edge building design and construction.
Forster is a proponent of structural steel modular high-rise construction. His firm, Danny Forster & Architecture, is designing what he calls the world’s tallest modular hotel in New York City.
The hotel is planned for a site at Sixth Avenue and West 29th Street in Manhattan. Forster said it will be about 350 feet tall and 100,000 gross square feet. Crews are now demolishing an old building to clear the site.
An eye-opener about the project is its 170 rooms are being fabricated in Krakow, Poland.
When finished, the rooms will be loaded onto a ship and sent to Brooklyn, where flatbed trucks will take each unit to the jobsite for installation. Each module will be 12 feet wide and 30 feet long.
Forster said units will arrive in America completely finished and furnished — from TVs to soaps in dishes in the bathrooms. He said they will be plug-and-play for jobsite workers, who will connect power, HVAC and plumbing to utility corridors in the hallways.
Units will be “unstacked” from the ship by year end. Crews will build a floor a day using eight units. They will never enter the locked units during construction.
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