Last May, MiTek, a construction software and building services company that’s part of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, formed a partnership with Danny Forster & Architecture to ...
How long does it take to build a high-rise hotel in the middle of Manhattan? Two to three years, maybe? Marriott plans to shrink that schedule to just three months with a new modular construction ...
When you're the world's largest lodging company and you've promised to open a new hotel every 14 hours for the next three years, time is certainly a factor in keeping your projects on track. In order ...
Modular construction is something like Legos — and hotel developers can’t get enough of the new building trend. Built section-by-section in a factory, hotel units are shipped to a site and stacked, ...
Which U.S. cities will be the “life sciences innovation hubs” of the future? What has one designer learned about using modular building systems to build hotels? And what happens when students really ...
Hotels, with their small, identical units, are an ideal match for pre-constructed modular units. Each hotel room can be made in a climate-controlled off-site location and then installed like a Lego ...
With space at a premium, is this the age of the micro-hotel? Pod hotels are springing up around the globe after first having gained notoriety in Japan. Mexico City Airport now has a pod hotel-and New ...
— -- Capsule hotels, pod hotels, overnight caskets: Whatever you call them, modular hotels, long embraced by Japanese businessmen, have evolved into a hip and affordable travel option that has ...
The Russian government has approved an order on the distribution of funds between the regions to support the construction of modular hotels. It is planned to allocate 15 billion rubles in the next ...
The new 246-foot-tall CitizenM New York Bowery Hotel on the Lower East Side has set a new bar for hospitality construction. Despite a relatively quiet grand opening in late September, it’s now the ...