ian springford part h
DESCRIPTION
Insight from Apex Hotels: Building a new green hotel in LondonTRANSCRIPT
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
• 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