Marriott goes modular in push to build hotels like stacking blocks



We visit a hotel that Marriott is building using a modular technique where rooms are manufactured off-site and then stacked together like building blocks!

If you remember playing with building blocks as a kid, you understand how Marriott is building a new hotel in Hawthorne, California.





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Eric Jacobs, Chief Development Officer for Marriott International



“You will not tell the difference walking into a modular unit versus a site build. The quality we think is superior, because it needs to withstand the trip down the road,” said Jerry Goodwin of Guerdon Modular Buildings, the facility making the rooms.



Jerry Goodwin, CEO of Guerdon Modular Buildings



“Once the unit is in place and we’re ready to outfit the room, we can send four bodies in and they can set up 10 rooms a day and have them completely finished and ready to accept a guest,” said Jacobs.

Marriott says the benefits of modular are mostly time, a higher quality build and less environmental waste. This particular hotel will go up in about a year compared to double that time if it was built completely on site.

“ ton of work upfront in the design phase, but when we go to construction, this is arguably one of the fastest construction projects going up in the U.S. right now,” said Brad Wagstaff, Owner and Managing Partner of Mogul Capital, the hotel’s developer.



Brad Wagstaff, Owner and Managing Partner of Mogul Capital