Hospitality perspectives

What we have learned delivering hotel interiors.

Ten pieces on the decisions that decide whether a hotel interior lands on programme: contractor selection, benchmark rooms, live refurbishment, FF&E scope, MEP coordination and production across multiple factories.

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How to select a hotel fit-out contractor

Most hotel fit-out selections are decided on price and reputation. The projects that run well are usually the ones where the owner tested four other things first.

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What a hotel mock-up room must resolve before rollout

A mock-up room that only proves the design looks right has wasted its purpose. It should prove the room can be built repeatedly, maintained and cleaned.

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Refurbishing a hotel while it remains operational

A live refurbishment is a commercial exercise before it is a construction one. The plan starts with how many keys the hotel can afford to lose.

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Where hotel fit-out programmes usually lose time

Hotel interiors rarely lose time in one dramatic event. They lose it in four predictable places, each worth a few weeks.

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What belongs inside a complete hotel FF&E package

The gap between an FF&E budget and an FF&E outcome is usually made up of items that were never on the schedule.

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Protecting operator standards during value engineering

Value engineering fails when a substitution is made quietly. It works when every change is named, tested and approved by the party whose standard it touches.

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How to coordinate MEP with luxury hotel interiors

In a luxury interior, the services are judged by what cannot be seen. That result is decided on a coordination drawing months before anything is installed.

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Guest room rollout planning across hundreds of keys

At scale, the room is a production line. The planning question is not how to build one room, but how to repeat it without the quality moving.

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When to appoint the joinery and furniture manufacturers

Manufacturers appointed at tender stage price a drawing. Manufacturers appointed at design stage improve it.

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Managing hotel furniture production across multiple factories

Large FF&E packages are rarely made in one place. The risk is not capacity, it is variation between the places.

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