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Oldcastle SurePods™ Prefabricated Bathroom Pods Streamline Construction of New York City’s Prospect Plaza

Housing project becomes the latest among multiple buildings in NYC to use the innovative bathroom pods pre-fabricated off-site to speed and simplify construction while improving safety and offering superior quality.

 
 

New York
July 14, 2016

 

In the same way that many products are made in a controlled factory setting, the 117 fully outfitted and functional Oldcastle SurePods™ bathroom pods installed in New York City’s Prospect Plaza housing project were built for quality and consistency. Replacing traditional bathroom construction, the prefabricated, modular bathrooms deliver better quality, faster construction and easier project management, while simplifying jobsites.

Oldcastle SurePods consolidate more than 10 trades – including electrical, plumbing and finishing work – into one prefabricated product. The prefabricated bathrooms are easy to lift, place and install, which helps save project developers time and money. Oldcastle Modular is certificated as an off-site fabricator by the New York City Dept. of Buildings Office of Technical Certification and Research (OTCR).

Prospect Plaza Development New York City/BrooklynProspect Plaza Development New York City/Brooklyn

Bill Seery, Director of Business Development for Oldcastle SurePods, says:

"Bathrooms are one of the most headache-causing parts of a construction project. Oldcastle SurePods changes the game with modular construction, eliminating the scheduling and construction hassles of having multiple sub-contractors working in a constrained space. You end up with a better finished bathroom that’s completed faster so you can start renting or using your facility sooner. We’re proud to have our product installed in multiple projects throughout New York.”

Blue Sea Development – recognized as one of the most innovative and creative developers of social housing – is building the project on behalf of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and NYC Housing Preservation & Development (HPD). Prospect Plaza is transforming 4.5 acres in Brooklyn’s Oceanhill-Brownsville neighborhoods into 364 housing units, including 80 units of NYCHA public housing and 284 affordable housing apartments, and supporting amenities.

OldCastle SurePod™ modular bathroom in the factoryOldCastle SurePod™ modular bathroom in the factory

Watch a time-lapse video of the Oldcastle SurePods installation in Prospect Plaza: https://oldcastlemodular.com/surepods-builds-multi-family-project-nyc/


About Oldcastle SurePods
Oldcastle SurePods is the leading provider of prefabricated bathrooms in North America. Using Building Information Modeling (BIM) and lean manufacturing technology, Oldcastle SurePods works with customers from design to installation to produce custom, ready-to-install bathroom pods for hotels and multi-unit residential projects. Replacing on-site bathroom construction, bathroom pods accelerate the construction timeline, improve overall quality and eliminate the punch list for the bathroom, the most problem-ridden part of a construction project. Oldcastle SurePods is part of Oldcastle, one of the largest manufacturers of building products in North America. www.oldcastlemodular.com