Manchester Holiday Inn Express, Shipping Container Building, Modular Accommodation Design
Manchester Holiday Inn Express
Off-site Container Architecture Development in Trafford City, northwest England, UK
17 Jul 2017
Holiday Inn Express Manchester Hotel
Design: Chapman Taylor
Location: Trafford City, Manchester, England

Chapman Taylor?s new 220 bedroom Holiday Inn Express, built off-site from purpose built steel shipping containers, has been completed at Manchester?s Trafford City. It is the first hotel in the North West to be built using this particular type of volumetric modular construction.
Volumetric modular construction is a method of off-site construction which sees a large portion of a building being constructed as a series of separate modules (or pods) in a controlled environment; typically a purpose built factory or large manufacturing warehouse. The individual modules are then transported to the site where they are assembled to create the finished building.
The hotel, located next to Manchester?s EventCity venue on a 1.75 acre site, is a joint venture between Topland, Marick and Mill Lane Estates and is the first Holiday Inn Express ?Generation 4? in the UK to be built using a ?modular? construction process.
Chapman Taylor?s Manchester studio, alongside the main contractor, Bowmer and Kirkland, developed the detailed design for the off-site hotel adopting a completely different design process, which was informed by the modular provider?s system. All 220 gue...