In early 2000, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee found that they would require 800 factory built buildings across 17 different venues. Buildings would be used as judging booths, VIP seating, athlete prep areas, recreation areas, and ticket booths. Key to the project: efficiently managing a 17 day influx of hundreds of thousands of athletes, spectators, and media while allowing Salt Lake to return to some normalcy after the competitions.

The cost effective, flexible nature of modular construction made the process a natural choice; ModSpaces’s 16 years of experience, national resources and the expertise of our Major Projects team made ModSpace the best choice in the industry.

All buildings were newly manufactured by wholesale manufacturers nationwide and were built to the same building codes as site build buildings. They were delivered by transporters from around the country and installed by set-up crews who made Salt Lake City their home for much of 2001.

More than 300 units were set in mountain venues– far from traditionally level sites! Challenges ranged from ground sets on slopes of 45 degrees or more to multiple stacks on top of scaffolding–some standing over 150 feet in the air. These units were required to withstand 150-pound snow loads and 80mph wind gusts - not your usual specifications!

During the games, the buildings did their jobs as intended– Judges scored, spectators watched, athletes worked and commentators broadcast, all warm, dry and some high above the action. Throughout much of the televised coverage of the games, the modular units could be seen in the background.

ModSpace’s experienced team kept the project organized over 2 years, and completed on budget, on time. In completing this high visibility project, ModSpace demonstrated to the world the performance capabilities of modular construction.

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