What Construction Type is Right for your Hotel?

Hardly a day goes by where we don’t find ourselves talking to hotel developers about construction types. Whether it be wood, concrete, steel, block & plank, or ICF, construction costs continue to be on the rise and evaluating all your options for construction early on will help ensure […]

Hotel Developers Now Considering Salt Water Pools

Love them or loathe them, pools are a brand required amenity for many popular hotel flags. For hotel owner, it’s important to understand your options when it comes to pool technology as it ultimately will affect the overall maintenance, costs, and guest experience at your property. In this newsletter, […]

A New IHG Brand – avid™ hotels

Last week, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) named its new midscale hotel brand – avid™ hotels. Our team is excited to already be working on several avid™ projects across the country. Below you will see a couple of renderings from one of these projects that our team recently created.

The brand will […]

Part 3 – Choose the Right HVAC For Guestroom Noise

Room noise is the number one complaint of hotel guests. Guestroom HVAC systems can cause high levels of guestroom noise.  So today I present one very important- yet overlooked- product difference between PTACs, VTACs, and VRF– Guestroom  Noise.

When looking at guestroom HVAC noise – there are […]

Peak Inside A Brand New Tru by Hilton!

What a pleasure to tour the completed Tru by Hilton project in Cheyenne, Wyoming! Base4 had the opportunity to design this Tru by Hilton for Kinseth Hospitality. The property opened its doors five weeks ago and is only the 4th Tru by Hilton to open in the entire United […]

Part 2 – How HVAC Systems Work

This week, I expand upon our previous newsletter and continue the discussion about HVAC systems (PTAC, VTAC, and VRF). In this newsletter, I will discuss the basics of each HVAC system including their installation and basic operations.

PTAC

1. Basics:

PTAC stands for Packaged Terminal Air Conditioner.
These are single, commercial […]

Hotel HVAC Systems – What are my options? – Part 1

Hotel owners estimate that hotel guestroom energy consumption accounts for approximately 40% to 80% of total building energy use. This is a very high percentage of a hotel’s operating budget so guestroom HVAC systems are not something that should be taken lightly. We often field […]

PART 4 – FAQ

I received some great feedback from our readers on our recent Hotel Bathroom Pods and Full Modular Guestrooms newsletters, which sparked a lot of new dialogue and questions. I thought it would be helpful to our readers to collect these questions and formulate a hotel modular construction FAQ list. Below is a collection of these questions and […]

Modular Construction Part III: How Can Modular Guestrooms Speed and Simplify Your Building Process?

As I discussed in previous newsletters Modular Construction & Hotel Bathroom Pods, modular is gaining new attention in the United States especially in the hotel sector. Fabricated bathroom pods are just a part of modular construction that minimizes a project punch list – fabricating entire hotel bays is […]

         
Should You Go Modular With Your Next Hotel – Part 2
Modular Construction Part II: How Can Bathroom Pods Speed and Simplify Your Building Process?

In the previous newsletter, I introduced the modular construction method. Last month, I attended the first East Coast Modular Stacking Event, which was dedicated to upcoming developments of Modular Construction in the […]