尽管它仅设有八层客房，会议室和董事会，但新的AC酒店奥兰多可以声称它是市中心最高的酒店。奥斯汀商业公司建造了117,600平方英尺的结构，该结构于2020年12月在Suntrust Plaza的上层楼完成。基地建筑总计25层，酒店组件从18级开始。17个下层房屋主要是在酒店建造期间被占用的办公空间。

从2019年9月开始，工作始于18层和19层，酒店设有会议室和董事会。客房在20楼开始，总共有180间跨越25楼的房间。

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工程地点位于铁道部e than 300 ft in the air above downtown Orlando, significant planning was needed prior to construction. The location, near Griffin Park, has busy streets on two sides with no ground-level laydown area. The team was able to use some space on Floor 10, above the parking garage, as laydown area, but only materials that could fit in an elevator. For large or heavy pieces—such as metal studs, 3,000-lb iron, drywall and glass curtain wall—a tower crane and hoist lifted material onto the existing building above Floor 17 prior to construction of the hotel.

Once the curtain wall was finished and the tower crane and hoist were removed, crews used two 6.5-ft by 5.5-ft by 9-ft service elevators located on Level 10 of the parking garage for all remaining construction materials, such as barn doors, shower doors, granite and furniture. Materials for all 180 guest rooms passed through the two service elevators. The process added a significant amount of work-hours as it took up to 10 minutes to drive one pallet of material up the parking garage to the service elevator. In total, it took 12 hours to get all pallets of material to the laydown area located on Floor 10. Deliveries also had to be carefully coordinated to avoid overloading the laydown area.

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Florida hurricanes and wind requirements prompted Austin Commercial to use structural steel in the bar area. The roof had to be cut open for the structural steel to be put in place, right above the SunTrust office space.

The team held daily meetings and walks with subs on QA/QC and punch issues before walking the site with the owners in order to minimize the owner’s future punch list. According to Austin Commercial, the project was one of the first for Marriott where the punch list was 100% complete at sign off.