Greetings to our Base4 Partners! This past week, Marriott announced their plans to open 300,000 new hotel rooms by 2019. This translates to opening one new hotel every 14 hours for the next 3 years! We are honored to partner with them in many of their current design projects and wanted to highlight their significant

Greetings to our Base4 Partners! Part III:  Getting five stories (and more rooms) out of your wood building hotel projects: In case you missed it… last week, we explored potential ways to increase wood buildings to five stories using Type IIIA construction. (Link to Part 2). Another option for building a 5-story wood hotel is the use of

Base4 is excited to be attending the 29th Annual Hunter Hotel Conference at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis next week. We look forward to spending some time with many of our clients and partners in the hospitality industry at this event.  If you are attending this year’s event, please let us know as we’d love to schedule some time to say

Greetings to our Base4 Partners! Last week, we explored code restrictions pertaining to wood structures and potential ways to increase building height and number of stories.  As discussed in Part 1 (Link to part 1), the International Building Code (IBC) classifies traditional wood framed construction as Type V and allows a maximum of four stories when