Task: Rigby Entertainment was interested in using ICF construction for its new 5-story, 87-room Best Western Hotel about 100 miles outside of Atlanta. The area is prone to tornadoes and other natural disasters, so owners wanted to maximize the strength and longevity of its investment while improving long-term profitability.
Challenge: A general contractor without previous ICF or commercial concrete construction experience was overseeing this hotel construction. Polycrete was initially tasked with installing ICF perimeter walls and internal walls between every second suite. However, the job quickly turned into helping construct most of the structural shell for the 5-story hotel as our installers needed to step in and handle project management, placement of precast concrete deck planks, and interior structural steel.
Solution: Polycrete’s factory precut ICF wall kits made it easy to erect the structural shell. The first floor ICF walls were built on footings, and as concrete planks were being set in place, second-floor walls were panelized on the ground. These 40-foot wall sections were then set in place using the crane that was already onsite for setting planks. Once second-floor planks were in place, ICF walls for upper stories were panelized under cover, thereby eliminating weather delays. In fact, the project survived a tornado event while still under construction.
Location: Warner Robins, Georgia
Type: 87-Room Extended Stay Hotel
Size: 108,000 square feet (floor)
ICF Use: 39,536 square feet
Owner: Rigby Entertainment
General Contractor: Rigby Construction
ICF Installer: Old Dominion Construction
Architect: FORMS Group