I’ve been watching a new hotel being built near my home in Maryland and have watched truck after truck of LBM being delivered, dozens of workers driving to the jobsite every day to stick frame the structure around the central elevator shafts and entire dumpsters filled with waste LBM being hauled away.
Torrential rains have hit our area on a regular basis this Summer as well a period of drought with temps reaching 100 degrees. Work slowed to a crawl. Guards had to be added at night to protect the lumber and sheet materials from being stolen.
Maybe a simple call to a modular factory could have staved off a lot of those problems and got the project to fruition sooner. We’ll never know.
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PFS CorporationOne of the largest General Contractors in the Midwest who has built many hotels and other commercial projects is using modular on their next hotel.
Construction on the modular sections of the Fairfield by Marriott hotel within Colorado Outdoors is already underway, Jeff Lamont, CEO of Lamont Companies, said on Thursday. Construction of those sections is occurring off-site, in South Dakota where Lamont Companies is headquartered.
A “good” portion of the first level will be built on-site at Colorado Outdoors, Lamont added, though the units and longer bays will be modular builds. Lamont Companies is familiar with the modular model, Lamont said.
On-site construction of the first level portion within Colorado Outdoors won’t start until building of the modular sections are farther along, which Lamont expects will be in six to nine months. The plan is to start the first level framing right before the modular sections are ready, though.
An additional six to nine months are expected to be needed to piece together the modular sections on-site, Lamont said. (Modular construction means building certain sections of the building and delivering it to the job site later, in modular sections.)
Lamont Companies has not set an estimated completion and opening date for the hotel. Exact dates are still being finalized, but a hotel of this size takes 14-18 months to build, Lamont said.
If construction goes according to plan, completion of the project could occur in late-2022 or early 2023.
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Gary Fleisher is the Managing Editor for the Modular Home Coach blog. Email at modcoach@gmail.com
