RESPAND Hospitality
One hotel prototype. Built again on every site.
RESPAND Hospitality targets select-service, 3-star branded hotels built to one repeatable prototype. The building is designed once on the RESPAND grid, then made, shipped and assembled the same way on every site.
Why repeatable hotels
A repeatable hotel deserves a repeatable building.
Select-service hotels already standardize the guestroom, the bathroom and the public spaces. RESPAND standardizes the building under them: the same parts, the same connections and the same bill of parts on every site.
- Open your hotel sooner, with a known bill of parts
- The same quality on every island, made in the factory
- Less dependence on scarce site trades
Built for hotels
What the RESPAND Building System gives a hotel.
One prototype, built again
Select-service brands repeat one guestroom, one bathroom and one corridor. On RESPAND, each of them is a set of catalogue parts, so the next hotel is the same building as the last.
Hospitality floor loads
The floor cassettes are checked for hospitality floor loads, with a heavier rim where the load needs it.
Guest bathrooms as catalogue parts
The wet-area panel gives a tiled bathroom floor that finishes flush with the guestroom.
Open public spaces
The long-span girder kit gives clear spans of 16 ft and 24 ft for the lobby, breakfast area and meeting room.
Patios and walkways
Deck and porch panels and a 4-panel slider kit 134 in. wide open rooms to the outside.
Engineered for hurricanes
Designed for 180–200 mph wind to the Bahamas Building Code and ASCE 7-22. Concept design; Engineer of Record verification in progress.
Faster by design
Designed once in 3D. Made in a factory. Ordered, shipped and built in parallel.
Once the prototype is frozen in 3D, four streams of work run at the same time instead of one after another.
- Stream 1
Approvals
The Engineer of Record and the authorities review a system they have seen before, not a new structure.
- Stream 2
Factory production
The factory makes the floor and wall parts directly from the model.
- Stream 3
Procurement
Windows, doors, girders and hardware are ordered from the model's bill of parts on day one, long-lead items first.
- Stream 4
Site and shipping
The site crew builds foundations while containers are loaded and shipped. When they arrive, the site work is assembly.
Where the system is today
Single storey first. Up to 3 storeys planned.
The RESPAND Building System is at concept stage. The single-storey system comes first; the grid and cassettes stay the same for the planned 2- and 3-storey versions, which need further engineering before they are offered.
RESPAND Hospitality
Building the same hotel more than once?
Tell us about your prototype, your sites and your schedule. We will show how the prototype maps onto the RESPAND grid.