Relocatable Modular Commercial Housing

Entry Name: Arctic Oilfield Hotel

Vesta Modular

Builders Choice, Inc

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Location: Deadhorse, AK

Building Use: Remote Workforce Lodging

Architectural Excellence

The Arctic Oilfield Hotel is the newest and most advanced accommodation facility on Alaska’s North Slope. The 3-storyfacility contains 452 private rooms and is situated above the Arctic Circle in the remote town of Deadhorse, Alaska.Due to the remote location (which experiences 24-hour darkness for over a month in the winter), the design team paidspecial attention to ensuring the building provided workers an unprecedented level of comfort. Guests will find largerecreational and exercise areas, a sauna, pool table and ping pong room, internet gaming room, open “SPIKE” roomcomplete with snacks and even an internet café serving Starbuck’s coffee products. In addition to the softeramenities, engineers were also faced with the unique challenge of installing this 3-story facility atop Alaska’spermafrost layer. To solve this challenge, the Arctic Oilfield Hotel rests upon over a hundred pilings sunk into thepermafrost and frozen in place – truly a design and engineering feat.

Technical Innovation & Sustainability

Considering the remote location and workforce, modular designers paid attention to providing a product that wouldmeet the needs of the new oilfield worker and provide the privacy and soundproofing desired to improve fatigue relatedsafety so often experienced in this type of remote workplace. Modules include the latest satellite powered high speedinternet and digitally connected entertainment to maintain some of the comforts of home. In addition, all rooms aresingle private units (no shared bathrooms) with individual lockable drawers to keep personal items secure. Otherinnovations include boot dryers, a poker room and dry sauna amenities.

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Days to Complete: 269

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Cost Effectiveness

With continued low oil prices, all entities on Alaska’s North Slope have been forced to find cost savings where possible.With this in mind, CH2M worked with VESTA Modular, Builder’s Choice and Winchester Alaska Architects to findmethods to reduce costs of both modular production, freight as well as ultimate operation of the facility. Effortsincluded working to reduce the number of modules and to achieve more efficient square footage, designing highlyenergy efficient modules with premium insulation, restricting module size to reduce pilot car costs to transport, andworking with material suppliers to provide savings due to large order size. In addition, CH2M self-performed extensiveproject management work as well as infrastructure projects to keep total costs to achieve a project that came in under

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