Hotels and hospitality
Hotels combine repetition, a hard opening date and guests who notice noise and drafts. All three favor a factory-made envelope.
A hotel has a date. Revenue starts when the doors open, and every week of shell construction is a week of that revenue not happening. Closing the building in quickly is worth more than it looks on a bar chart.
Guests judge a hotel partly on quiet. Demising walls between rooms and corridor walls are acoustic elements as much as fire ones, and an engineered Shield™ assembly is rated up to STC 59.
In Buffalo the curtain wall let the trades work through the winter and the hotel opened on schedule; in Atlanta the system absorbed a mid-project change of architect and contractor and was still delivered in two phases.
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aloft Airport Hotel, Buffalo: 90,000 sq ft, 153 rooms over 6 floors; Shield™ curtain walls of 6 inch solid EPS and cold-formed steel closed the building in quickly and it opened on schedule despite a Buffalo winter.
Source · aloft Airport Hotel case study
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Cambria Suites Hotel, Atlanta: 4 stories, over 91,000 sq ft; the complete exterior curtain wall system was fabricated and shipped in two phases and the client also selected the system for a large portion of the roof.
Source · Cambria Suites Hotel case study
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Multi-use construction, hospitals and hotels are named commercial markets.
Source · Market page
Published by Guardian Structural Technologies. Last updated .
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