Design Fairs To Keep An Eye on In the Fall Of 2021

Design Fairs To Keep An Eye on In the Fall Of 2021

Design fairs may have been slightly affected by the ongoing pandemic, however, they seem to be aiming for a strong return in the latter part of the 2021 year. From Isaloni to Maison&Objet, these fairs promise to return as strong as they have ever been, promoting design ideas, concepts and solutions to revolutionize the market! Let’s take a close look at each of these events!

Design Fairs
In France

France is proudly hosting two large events this year, filling Paris with magic and design blissfulness.

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An Interview with Scott McLeod, Project Director, DPR Construction

In our last blog we profiled how the nonprofit healthcare system, Atrium Health, partnered with DPR Construction and Rodgers Builders to expand their main campus with a state-of-the-art Critical Rehab Hospital and Bed Tower to meet the growing needs of Charlotte, NC. With Atrium’s commitment to every community it serves, DPR Construction and Rodgers Builders understood the importance of speed to market.

With this in mind, they developed aggressive prefabrication strategies including SurePods prefabricated bathroom units to help increase productivity and reduce construction duration. To dive deeper into how the pods can help streamline construction processes, we sat down with Scott McLeod, Project Director at DPR Construction, to get the inside scoop.

SurePods: Based on your Atrium Health project experiencewhat advantages have prefab modular bathrooms afforded in healthcare settings?

McLeod: Using prefabricated modular bathrooms allows us to build in parallel in a controlled environment, which improves our schedule and quality. It is important when working on large complex healthcare projects, to do things right the first time. Eliminating delays from rework of improperly installed and repairs for damages in the field to materials, components and equipment. Another major concern we were able to address through prefabrication was mitigating labor shortages resulting from a volatile pandemic environment. You can build the pods in an off-site controlled environment with more productive and therefore less labor and store them until it’s time for installation. This simplifies logistics and can also provide more control over market volatility by mitigating risk to material availability and escalating prices.

SurePods: How has working with SurePods simplified your design processes?

McLeod: Because we were standardizing patient-room bathrooms enterprise wide, for multiple healthcare campuses, one of the biggest challenges was designing something effective, efficient and that everyone agrees on to achieve economies of scale. Along with consistency, maintaining the same bathrooms and patient rooms in every hospitable helped to reduce operating and maintenance costs and will allow staff to move easily between different hospitals. SurePods made it possible for the builders and designers from each hospital to work together with the manufacturer to standardize a bathroom that fit the needs of multiple campuses under the Atrium Health umbrella.

SurePods: How have your clients responded to the prefab modular bathrooms?

McLeod: Our clients are very pleased with the results, especially in today’s pandemic environment. Building with SurePods in their factory-controlled setting improves safety, quality and productivity. All this contributes to mitigating new unique challenges in the marketplace and helps us build faster, safer and better to serve the communities here on a wider scale. It’s solving a real need.

SurePods: What advice do you have for other construction firms considering SurePods and modular bathrooms for healthcare, especially those new to prefab?

McLeod: It’s a journey, and you have to start early when incorporating DFM (Design for Manufacturing) techniques into the design phase. Your teams have to demonstrate commitment and develop a prefabrication plan early to leverage the benefits during construction. Not only do prefab solutions offer quality and scheduling efficiency, but they are also a huge labor saver in markets where it is difficult to find qualified and experienced labor. Plus, it also makes it much easier for onsite workers, giving them one less thing to worry about during the whole project.

If you’re a contractor or developer with a project in healthcare and you want to learn more about how modular bathroom pods can benefit your build, connect with us at: [email protected].

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11 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Bathroom Remodeling Company

In addition to improving the functionality and style of your bathroom, a remodel is also a major investment in your home. There are dozens of bathroom remodelers, so it’s a smart idea to ask those you trust for recommendations and read online reviews before narrowing down your choices. We recommend interviewing your top two or three to ensure your project is in the right hands. Here’s a handy list…

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Fantastic Bathroom Interior Design Ideas To Admire

Fantastic Bathroom Interior Design Ideas To Admire

Bathroom interior design is an essential part of a home’s blissful ambience, it can truly make or break the home’s identity and we must get it completely right. One can either go with darker shades of color, greenery or even golden details that award the room with an intense sense of glamour and luxury. To help you develop your most perfect bathroom design, we at Maison Valentina have decided to collect the most incredible bathroom looks for you to feel inspired by!

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Projects in the Works: Atrium Health

Established in 1987, Atrium Health is a Charlotte-based nonprofit health system with a longstanding history of providing leading-edge care throughout the Charlotte regions. As the population continues to climb in local counties, Atrium Health’s chief financial officer, Gene Woods says, “Improvements to CMC (Carolinas Medical Center) are a big focus for Atrium because the flagship facility is expected to reach capacity in five years.” To keep up with the community’s growing needs, Atrium Health put plans in motion to improve and expand their facilities in the Charlotte region.

With a substantial amount of site and infrastructure upgrades to take place across multiple locations, it was paramount for Atrium Health’s design group to keep the construction process as lean as possible from the project’s onset. With this in mind, they enlisted SurePods to assist in attacking the project enterprise-wide and prefabricate bathroom pods for multiple campus facilities. The scope included the design and prefabrication of pods for the Carolinas Rehabilitation Facility, as well as more than 400 pods for Phase 2 of the project, the flagship CMC Bed Tower.

Supporting the firm’s single-standard-approach, SurePods’ prefabricated construction methods allowed builders and designers from Atrium Hospitals to collaborate and agree on a consistent, efficient bathroom design to achieve economy of scale. This creative challenge was further aided by SurePods’ in-house team, who provided coordination, resolved design issues and helped with material selection. As a result of this collaborative effort, the hospitals are designed with consistent bathrooms, an outcome with a secondary benefit for healthcare workers. “Maintaining the same bathrooms and patient rooms in every hospitable was important so that staff could move easily between different sites,” said Scott MacLeod, Project Director at DPR.

Beyond design outcomes, healthcare facilities like Atrium function as a critical piece of infrastructure, especially in times of tremendous population growth. However, in areas like Charlotte that are experiencing a skilled labor shortage, even the most urgent construction projects can potentially undergo delays. This is another reason why healthcare settings can benefit from prefab construction’s ability to put control back in the hands of the builder—namely, by improving quality and productivity when the market doesn’t have capacity. “Prefabrication allows us to build in parallel, which improves our schedule. Working with packaged units with a single company also offer more control over outcomes than traditional construction. This is huge when it comes to eliminating damages in the field by other trades,” explained MacLeod. “We’re able to build faster and better to serve communities on a wider scale.”

While the prefabricated pods’ ability to help accelerate construction timelines is already shaping up to be advantageous for the multi-phase, enterprise-wide project, so too is their ability to address changing market conditions. “You can build the pods in advance and store them until it’s time for installation,” said MacLeod. “This simplifies logistics and can also provide more control over volatile market conditions by mitigating risk to material availability and escalating prices.”

With strategic updates to Atrium Health facilities already underway, local residents can expect to see grand openings start as early fall 2022 and extend through 2026.

If you’re a contractor or developer with a project in healthcare and you want to learn more about how modular bathroom pods can benefit your build, connect with us at: [email protected].

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Black Marble Bathrooms That Amaze!

Black Marble Bathrooms That Amaze!

Black marble bathrooms are a wonderful addition to one’s home. From the incredible ambience it awards to the room, black marble can elevate a private oasis into utter and complete luxury, allowing for great comfortable visuals to be mixed with amazing functionality and glamour. Let’s take a look at Maison Valentina’s best black Marble Bathrooms!

FEEL INSPIRED BY THE MOST INCREDIBLE AND ICONIC BLACK MARBLE BATHROOMS

The combination of gold and black looks remarkable in any bathroom.

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Fantastic Ideas For An Iconic Bathroom Design

Fantastic Ideas For An Iconic Bathroom Design

Iconic bathroom design status is hard to achieve, but Maison Valentina has gathered some of the best looks out there in the design market for you to admire! Follow along to the most incredible design choices, color ideas and intense items one can properly admire!

FEEL INSPIRED BY THE MOST INCREDIBLE AND ICONIC BATHROOM DESIGN

Colorful and radiant, this beautiful design features a contemporary style with a minimal approach.

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13 Practical Ideas to Cut Your Costs of a Bathroom Remodel

Has a bathroom remodel EVER COST LESS than expected? I bet the resounding answer to this is a big fat NO! And with rapidly escalating material prices and bathroom remodeling contractors as scarce as toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic, it’s a fair to say bathroom remodeling costs aren’t going down any time […]

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Bathroom Decorating Ideas To Fall In Love With

Bathroom Decorating Ideas To Fall In Love With

Bathroom decorating ideas are a wonderful way to discover some of the newest and hottest design ideas in the market right now! As such, we at Maison Valentina have decided to bring to you the most wonderful designs so you can feel inspired and maybe go and renovate your private oasis as a way to turn into a more luxurious and blissful place in which you can truly relax! Take a deep dive here and feel inspired!

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