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Walking through this elegant furniture showroom, you'd never know the special challenges this modular addition had to overcome. Not only did the facility have to span an alleyway between two existing retail stores, but zoning approval required that it be "removable" so the public utilities that ran through it could be maintained. These utilities included a main grid electrical line, fire line loop, main natural gas line, city water main, and a sewer line. As such, Modular Technology had to excavate, expose, inspect, and encase the gas line in concrete, along with a vent line on either side of the modular addition. The exterior had to exactly match that of the existing facilities, which featured masonry and stucco with quoine detail work at the corners. In addition, the alley where the addition was to be placed was also used as a waterway to drain a large, adjacent parking lot. Modular Technology addressed all of these challenges and completed building installation in only 60 days, despite the fact that the original buildings were approximately 29 feet apart, askew by 8 degrees, and the finish floor elevations differed by 6 inches. Our use of 2x8 wall studs allowed us to achieve the reveals around the in-set exterior windows, and the building’s foundation was designed to allow rain water to run directly under it, with a solid galvanized underbelly to protect the steel floor joists. Use of a concrete ribbon footing on the lower side allowed us to accommodate for the difference in floor heights. All of these special circumstances and our solutions to them were reasons this client chose to go modular. While our structures boast all of the same features as site-built facilities, in many cases they surpass them, because of the flexibility and innovative technology inherent to our accelerated modular construction method.
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