FORT DRUM — Its developer says crews built the new Candlewood Suites hotel at Fort Drum using cross-laminated timber (CLT). Lendlease — a firm that specializes in project management, construction, real-estate investment and development — says the new hotel incorporates CLT for the hotel’s floors, roof, exterior walls, shaft walls and select interior walls. Made […]
FORT DRUM — Its developer says crews built the new Candlewood Suites hotel at Fort Drum using cross-laminated timber (CLT).
Lendlease — a firm that specializes in project management, construction, real-estate investment and development — says the new hotel incorporates CLT for the hotel’s floors, roof, exterior walls, shaft walls and select interior walls. Made of several layers of pressed lumber board stacked in alternating directions, CLT “offers builders maximized strength and durability with added sustainability and conservation benefits,” per a news release on the Lendlease website.
CLT “is projected to achieve significant energy savings when compared to typical hotel buildings of the same size for the same climate,” as described in a previous company release about the groundbreaking.
The more than 65,000-square-foot structure includes 99 all-suite rooms. The 13-person Lendlease crew utilized more than 1,700 pieces of mass timber and 200,000 pieces of hardware to construct the building. Eight of the crew members who worked on the Fort Drum project were local veterans referred to the project through Fort Drum’s Soldiers for Life program, Lendlease said.
“Lendlease embraces and prioritizes innovation and utilizing CLT allows us to execute on our vision to create the best places while providing a sustainable outcome for our Army partner,” Claire Johnston, managing director of Lendlease’s Communities business, said in the release. “The use of CLT and other integrated methodologies has made it possible to ‘do more with less’ by constructing projects faster, with less labor and safer than conventional materials and methods.”
Part of the Privatization of Army Lodging (PAL) program, Lendlease is the owner, developer, design-builder and asset manager for the Candlewood Suites on Fort Drum, and the “exclusive developer” for the U.S. Department of Defense’s only lodging privatization program.
Lendlease wasn’t able to share the project cost, Lacey Purcell Jamison, an assistant marketing manager with Lendlease, said in an email response to a CNYBJ inquiry.
Lendlease is based in Sydney, Australia with U.S. headquarters in New York City, according to its website. Lendlease employs about 13,000 people worldwide.
“The Candlewood Suites on Fort Drum is an excellent addition to the IHG Army Hotels portfolio and another great example of the success of privatization. We are very proud to support Fort Drum’s mission and deliver IHG’s signature hospitality and amenities to travelers with the Department of Defense,” Chuck Sourbeer, head of operations, IHG Army Hotels, said.
IHG — short for InterContinental Hotels Group — is the hotel operator and manager of IHG Army Hotels, which are located on 40 U.S. Army installations. IHG is headquartered in the United Kingdom and has a U.S. office in Atlanta, Georgia, its website says.
