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New Data Suggests Upswing in Green Building

commercial-buildingThe latest LEED in Motion: Hospitality report highlights how LEED practices and strategies are flexible, easy to implement, generate impressive results and can be integrated into the hospitality industry throughout the building’s lifecycle, leading to high performance in human and environmental health. Incorporating LEED includes sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.

LEED is a simple and effective program for navigating complex, often competing building and environmental issues affecting humans worldwide. Every day, more than 1.85 million square feet of space is LEED certified in more than 155 countries and territories. More than 74,500 commercial projects are currently participating in LEED, comprising more than 14.4 billion square feet of construction space. With specific achievement paths built in, LEED is designed for use in various building types in a variety of climates and localities, often synching with local laws and requirements.

All Truss is pleased to be involved with a number of hotel projects, both under development and actively in the construction phase.

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At Great Lengths…

A truss can be designed to span as long as a project requires, however, cohesive and comprehensive planning are needed from the earliest stages. In this case, the team at All Truss was approached to build a massive complex, the Mother Teresa Educational Building. The plans incorporated a number of design elements to give the Educational Facility a distinctive look.

Along with being highly recommended, All Truss also had an established relationship with the architect, who approached All Truss about getting involved during the project’s design phase. That early participation in the project gave All Truss the opportunity to advocate for design options where structural building components best fit the structure’s overall design, so they let the engineer and architect know what would and wouldn’t work.

Mother Teresa Educational Center

The architect chose to use a standard roofing system utilizing two 75-foot girder trusses, which the team at All Truss confirmed would work for the design.

The design phase ran smoothly, in large part due to the company’s early involvement with the architect, engineer and framers. Being involved in the preliminary stages, the design was pretty simple. All of the planning and collaboration between the trades paid off at the job site.

For all of the project’s unique requirements, shipping proved to be the most formidable challenge. Shipping is always a challenge. All Truss has some of the longest trailers used in the structural building components industry; transporting the trusses for the job was a feat. Along with the proper escort vehicles, All Truss made their way, slowly but surely, to the job site.

This was not All Truss’ first “big truss rodeo” and thanks to that experience, in-house trucks and cranes, and state-of-the-art design talent, All Truss has become the natural choice for architects across Northern California. The success of the Mother Teresa Educational Building just goes to show All Truss’ skill in this highly-specialized field.

Hotel Building Boom

Resort-and-conference-center image for All trussWe at All Truss are experiencing first hand the surge in hotel building with several new projects recently finished,in the midst and in upcoming seasons’ planning. Below are some of the factors and numbers in play in this exciting sector.

Business and other travelers looking for a home on the road will have many,many new choices this year, as a building boom gives rise to hundreds of new hotels from Coast to Coast.

At least 865 hotels, with 103,230 rooms, are currently under construction and scheduled to open in 2016, according to hotel research firm STR, as developers get in gear for surging demand.

“Post-2009, lenders in the hotel space got very skittish,” says Jan Freitag, STR’s senior vice president of lodging insights. But “the industry continues to break records on the demand side and on the revenue side. … ” Developers are playing catch up, and everyone is on hurry to build and get their investment into the black.

Conference-center-port-du-cochere image for all trussWith a goal of gaining brand loyalty from a new generation of tech-savvy, city-oriented (rs as well as suburban and resort area office park)travelers the big name groups are on the build: Hyatt Hotels Corporation expects to open 11 new hotels chock a block with amenities for digital business travelers under their brand this year. Hilton Worldwide, an empire constituting 11 hotel names under its umbrella plans to bring more than 30,000 rooms, or 270 hotels online in the U.S. this year.

“Existing hotels have become expensive,” says Bill Fortier, Hilton Worldwide’s senior vice president of development for the Americas. “Money is going toward new development today and… we’re going to see a record number of deals in 2016.”

 

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USA TODAY, STR, AH&LA