MANAGEMENT

• Client ‘Green Team’ and building champion

• Common sense approach used for energy saving

• Planned Plant Maintenance & ‘MOT’ Regime in place

• Meters & Sub Meters linked to BMS, monitored by services engineer

• On site recycling and waste compaction

• Saving targets identified

Management

http://www.energyawards.co.uk/

• City Centre location; good public transport links, no car parking

• Re-use of existing structure

• Replacement of external envelope with higher performance skin

• Natural materials used

• Planted roof; attenuates rain water run off, creates bio-diversity

• Natural ventilation for bedrooms and public areas

• State of the art heating/ cooling system used

• Card switches, PIR, timeclocks used.

• Water conservation through showers, low volume cisterns & flow restrictors

• Induction hob used in kitchen.

• Good building management practice in place.

Summary

• More efficient building= less plant

• Less plant= less capital cost, less running cost

• Less plant= more income generating space

• More income generating space= more profit

• Less overheads= more profit

• More profit= greater capital value

• Greater capital value + profit= happy client!

Benefits

THE FUTURE

......... IS NOW!

• Green is not Porn!

• Energy costs are circa 3-5% of hotel costs

• More demanding planning & building regulations

• Higher energy costs

• Higher tax on energy consumption

• Shift in fuel source

• More stick than carrot

• Progressive shift in consumer attitudes

The Future

• Modular Combined Heat & Power

• Guest energy monitoring

• Water conservation

• Greywater recycling

• Solar pre-heating

• Air to Air/ Ground source heat pump systems

• On-site private Laundry

• Microgeneration

Mainstream Future Technologies

• Increased capital costs

• Guests making informed choices

• Greater guest control

• Gradual elimination of ‘wasteful’ facilities eg Towel heaters, whirlpool baths, sauna cabins

• Pattern of travel and locations may change

• Gradual elimination of un-sustainable markets and hotel types

Future Implications

H: Refurbishing hotels – improving the

delivery process in the lead up to 2012

Damien Kenny, managing director, Vivid Interiors