Hospitality New Construction

Provide Lodging that Matters to Occupants

How can resort and hotel managers ensure new buildings and systems will attract visitors, delight guests, and operate with predictable costs and reliability?

Integrate high-performance systems thinking and independent expertise with your project team to support them in designing and building efficient facilities that operate at peak performance, incur minimal disruptions or downtime, and exceed guests’ expectations of their stay.

In an era of ever-compressing schedules and budgets, Cx Associates’ capabilities and independence help remove construction and operational uncertainties to ensure that the final product is exactly what your company and guests need.

Articulating the goals of your new construction project is critical to a successful outcome. Cx Associates has years of experience in facilitating discussions to clearly de ne project objectives, which we document in the Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR) document. The OPR focuses the team on your stated goals serving as the foundation for successful design, construction, commissioning, and operations. Whether your goals include delivering low ambient noise rooms, supplying consistent energy without waste, minimizing life-cycle costs, meeting sustainability targets, achieving high guest satisfaction ratings, or anything else, this approach helps you identify areas of improvement allowing you to drive up your guest and owner satisfaction with your new construction investment.

Cx Associates’ design review team includes engineers with a long history of designing and commissioning building systems to meet ASHRAE Standards 90.1 and 62.1. Design expertise coupled with experience commissioning designs from dozens of world-class design firms gives Cx Associates a unique ability to identify what makes engineering approaches successful in terms of budget, energy efficiency, construct- ability, end user satisfaction, and ease of operations and maintenance. Because we identify true value engineering improvements that deliver the required services efficiently and effectively with lower first and operating costs, our design review typically pays for itself. Improvements include right-sizing equipment, streamlining duct layouts, using day lighting controls effectively, optimizing building controls, and reducing lighting fixture counts. When you are building for the future, it’s important to get it right from the start. Having an independent third party conduct thorough and constructive design reviews is a critical step in achieving success.

While Cx Associates offers much more than building commissioning, we have commissioned over 150 facilities. Our capabilities and experience enable us to identify and remedy issues “behind the walls and above the ceilings” before they are turned over to your operations staff. Left unchecked, these issues can increase operating costs while undermining occupant comfort. During construction, we will be on site to identify issues early and provide solutions. By collaborating with the entire team, we work to implement the optimal solution and ensure the facility meets your goals. Optimized commissioning services provided by Cx Associates will increase guest satisfaction and occupancy rates because systems will be quiet and effective.

Metering and data analytics are the window into modern hospitality facilities and a critical part of 21st-century building design and operations. Cx Associates knows you cannot save what you can’t measure, that temporary changes need long-term fixes, and that you want to control and plan for resiliency. A properly implemented M&V system is much more than some meters tied into your Building Automation System (BAS). We’ve designed, commissioned, and tested M&V systems that provide operators with key performance indicators, enabling them to tune and re ne operations using real-time feedback. We integrate with your design team to specify the right hardware, software, and algorithms with the right variables for metering. During construction, we verify hardware, the information feeding into the BAS, and the usefulness of the data outputs. Post occupancy, we calibrate the building energy model to verify actual performance and identify opportunities to obtain missed or even new energy savings.