Mid-market ground-up hotel builds lose weeks between design-review sign-off and vertical framing when architectural comments, trade bid leveling, and imported casegoods shop drawings sit with separate vendors. On a 70-key, 42,602-square-foot Best Western Plus development along the Interstate 10 corridor in Southeast Texas, our project package tied civil, structural, MEP, and architectural revisions directly to construction trade leveling and factory FF&E procurement.
On the building side, the construction binder paired a ten-page December 2018 franchise plan-review response letter with full signed civil, structural, MEP, and architectural sheets updated into January 2019. Every major site and vertical line item, from dirt work, post-tension slab, parking paving, framing, and masonry to fire sprinklers, elevator shaft work, swimming pool allowance, and electric-vehicle parking stalls, was compared side by side across competing subcontractor numbers alongside general conditions and AIA contract templates.
On the FF&E side, a five-page factory casegoods takeoff and accompanying factory proforma invoices broke down custom veneer and fireproof-upholstered assemblies across 30 King and 40 Double Queen guestroom layouts, total 70 credenza TV panels, desks, task chairs, nightstands, and 25 sleeper sofas, supported by shop-floor mockup inspection photos. Matching container procurement files covered custom vanity bases, snow-white glass countertops with undermount sinks, and prefabricated quartz tub surrounds with scaled shop drawings before fabrication began.
