Architectural Technology – Hotel detailing and high traffic use

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Today I’m in Bournemouth, so this blog was written a couple of days ago, and stored as a date posted blog. Sitting here in my study, I rely of several sources for aricles, from Google Reader, to saved google searches, to other blogs, which are saved to google reader. Every time I find a good story line, I start an Evernote file and plunge notes and cuttings into it. I also read several electronic paper, from the Times, the Financial Times, and two specific search type papers, Zite and Flipboard, both have my custom searches to find construction, or Architectural Technology related articles.

My hotel for the weekend, is an older building that has been extended over the years, I did a lot of this style of work, so will be looking for the tell tail signs of the alterations, but its an ideal chance to see how a building copes with a constant turnover of people, high trafic areas, are always a problem, good looks are so important to a hotel especialy in the reception area, so cheap low quality products just will not last, detailing has to be of the highest quality, and robust.

But other areas are also just as important, corridors, lifts, and individual bedrooms. Maintenance and general cleaning is something we as Technologists ofeten over look in our detailing, how will it be cleaned, bathrooms are a prime example, and baths the interface between tiles and bath , basins and their interface with tiles are areas of particular importance. the hotel owner want it to be easily cleaned and last, yet I have used hotel all my business life, and as such revisit hotels on quite a regular basis, so can see just how quick details deteriorate. some times because the detail was just not up to the job, sometimes because the cleaner has not bothered, or as in some cases, the cleaning agent, the chemical component has attacked the detail, and in the worst cases, the user has been the problem.

So staying in a hotel brings a unique oportunity to review detailing that has undergone a hard life, in a relatively short time, by a multitude of users from gueats, to maitenance guys, to cleaners, the natural ageing.

rerader, t

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