Hilton Garden Inn, Al Hofuf

International hotel operators audit buildings the way aviation authorities audit aircraft. Every system (chilled water, domestic hot water, kitchen extract, life safety) has a brand standard behind it, and handover fails on the detail, not the headline.

The client wanted the structure, the architecture, and all of the building services carried by the same engineers, so that a coordination problem could never become a contractual one.

Carrying civil and MEP together changes the sequence. Our BIM team froze the services model before the first slab was poured, so every sleeve, riser, and builder's opening was cast in, not cut in afterwards. On a hotel, where ceilings are low and shafts are money, that discipline is worth entire floors of headroom.

The guestroom floors run on a repeating MEP module: prefabricated bathroom service walls, plug-and-play fan coil connections, and corridor services dressed on racks assembled at ground level. Each typical floor closes out in eleven days.

The project is on site now, tracking the operator's staged inspection regime. Podium plant rooms are set, risers are climbing with the structure, and the first mock-up guestroom has passed brand review, the milestone that locks the design for the hundreds of rooms that follow.