Project Description
Massachusetts Ave. located in Capital Hill, served mainly as a government office building for the past 50 years. However, the building underwent a $200 million transformation into a mixed-use development called 20 Mass. SurePods built 211 bathrooms for the Royal Sonesta Hotel, the first project in Washington D.C.
The factory-built custom bathroom pods, complete with high-end finishes, were manufactured simultaneously with the hotel’s construction phase, reducing the schedule by 10%. SurePods enabled the team to deliver predictable results by fabricating the repeatable, high-end bathroom design in a controlled environment. The fabrication process in a factory setting took 42,700 hours, enabling the team to take that time to focus on other scopes within the building.
SurePods and prefabrication crate cost and schedule certainty early, help combat manpower and supply chain shortages, streamline quality control, and improve safety by moving the workforce to a controlled environment, instead of onsite. The reduced presence of SurePods workers onsite has also alleviated parking congestion in the surrounding area, providing a positive impact on the local community, especially noteworthy given the project’s proximity, just one block from Union Station and three blocks from the US Capitol.
