Esperanza An Auberge Resort
Esperanza An Auberge Resort is tucked between two scenic bluffs on the Baja peninsula and boasting a world-renowned luxury spa in Cabo San Lucas, championship golf courses, secluded beaches and a vibrant nightlife.
SEMCO was chosen for our one-of-a-kind handcrafted designs, elegant lasting finishes, high performance green products, and the fact that our surface solutions require no demolition of the existing substrate — an environmental benefit that saves clients both time and money.
PROJECT DETAILS
Preparation: SEMCO Power Cleaner and Stone Soap
Floors: SEMCO X-Bond Microcement, PreStain Color and Color Bond – Sandy Beach color, sealed with X-Crete 400 Matte
Project size: 11,000 sq ft
Project year: 2014
Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Summary
Esperanza is part of the exclusive Auberge resort collection located in beautiful Cabo San Lucas. When they were looking to renovate ten suites in order to elevate their 5-Star luxury brand, they hired Tal Studio, a hospitality and interior design architectural firm. The Esperanza’s primary concerns were:
Constant maintenance and repair of surfaces
Failure and delamination of the micro-topping
Safety concerns over cracked and leaking balconies
An overall lack of aesthetics
The resort’s existing concrete floors were delaminated and badly cracking.
Surface preparation before X-Bond Microcement application.
SEMCO X-Bond Microcement is applied over existing concrete substrate.
SEMCO X-Bond Microcement over existing concrete substrate.
Strategy
Tal Studio initially explored using other surface solutions, including stone, tile, and overlay cement. However, these options couldn’t meet the criteria set by the property due to material thickness, lack of proper waterproofing, necessary demolition, and timing. Noise was also a major concern, as the resort had guests in nearby rooms.
Time was of the essence on this project, due to an upcoming celebrity wedding at the resort. This meant reducing a typical six-week project schedule to a tight four-week turn around. To meet the resort’s ambitious deadline, SEMCO brought in a team of qualified certified installers from across the country, including Hawaii, Oregon, and California, to join their Vegas experts. Working quickly and efficiently, they’d completed all the prep and a good portion of the X-Bond application by week two. Then disaster hit: El Niño.
The storm front struck the Baja region hard, forcing us to lose four days of work. Given the pending wedding, a request for extra time was denied, but the property manager offered extra manpower—six of their landscape gardeners. Thanks to SEMCO’s simple and easy application procedures and instruction video, the newly assembled team met the client’s ambitious deadline —with three days to spare.
Stencils on the suite floor awaiting PreStain Color application
Solution
The crew worked passionately and non-stop, despite challenges. In addition to having less time to finish the project, they were faced with no elevators, high humidity and long distances between the buildings. Hardly ideal conditions.
None of these issues kept SEMCO from adhering to its strict sign off procedures, including a quality assurance system requiring the operation manager to sign off each of SEMCO X-Bond Microcement installation steps.
The finished product was a beautiful new surface; one durable enough to withstand the property’s high volume of visitor traffic, and attractive enough to meet the high quality standards of the five-star luxury resort—all delivered ahead of schedule.
The project was such a success that SEMCO has since completed an additional project for the Auberge Resorts Collection: the beautiful Malliouhana in Anguilla.