Hotels

Your sustainability and energy efficiency specialists

Creating the ideal environment for a hotel full of guests can be expensive business, but when it comes to the energy you’re using it’s not always clear what is causing excessive bills. Echome consultants understand the balance between efficiency and luxury is a fine art, and that any progress towards a hotel’s sustainability needs to run in parallel with guest satisfaction. That’s why we specialise in providing tailored solutions to ensure the introduction of proven efficiency measures doesn’t detract from the comfort so important to the happiness of your guests.

We also know hotels have to operate 24/7. If development work can’t wait until a refurbishment, it needs to be conducted as discreetly as possible, ever sensitive to specific requirements of the establishment. Because of this our consultancy service endeavours to formulate a comprehensive report of utility inefficiencies, establish a strategy for improvement, and provide the means to implement changes that will reduce your expenditure, carbon footprint, and environmental impact with minimal disturbance to the smooth running of your hotel.

Our Consultants can help you:

• Reduce utility expenditure and maintenance costs
• Secure environmental accreditation and awards
• Enjoy sustainable building management
• Achieve a green badge to be proud of

The hospitality industry provides an invaluable service to our mobile population, but it is hard to ignore its 5% contribution to the the UK’s carbon footprint, and with Britain’s commitment to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 80% by 2050 there is increasing pressure to rethink some of the practices at the heart of a hotel’s functionality. More than ever business and leisure tourists are seeking sustainable alternatives to minimise the carbon footprint of their travels, and in many places the hotel industry has been quick to respond to this growing need, making the most of government subsidies to retrofit more efficient systems and re-evaluating business practice. However we know that not all the visitors to your establishment are likely to share our commitment to green issues, and this is easily perceivable in the extensive water and energy requirements of running a hotel. With utilities prices steadily increasing well above CPI inflation rates, and forecast to continue to drive up the cost of building management, there has never been a more opportune time to re-evaluate energy consumption. Fortunately the market is bursting with innovations helping to conserve water, gas and electricity, but the choice can be overwhelming and the various claims confusing. Out of the many thousand products saturating the market, echome can draw on a rich pool of experience to take away the ‘trial and error’ element often associated with energy saving measures and provide genuine saving forecasts based on trusted technologies.

 

Cutting staff and services can have an immediate negative effect on guest satisfaction. Here are just a handful of ways to trim expenses and improve green credentials without sacrificing customer happiness.

• Monitoring systems give you the power to understand the building’s energy consumption and highlight energy spikes, leaks, failures, and general inefficiency. You can only manage what you measure.
• Economical control of water flow and temperature with aerated taps and showers, solar thermal heating, rainwater harvesting, grey water recycling, and high efficiency boilers.
• Better control of air quality,  flow and temperature with intelligent control systems, heat pumps, air conditioning and heat recovery.
• Produce electricity independently with photovoltaic solar panels, turbines, or combined heat and power.
• Ensure appliances run efficiency with site wide voltage optimisation or localised power controls.
• Properly designed lighting systems employing CFLs, LEDs, and an intelligent lighting management system.

The many options can all offer significant savings and a rapid return on investment, and as a hotel manager there is no need to be daunted by the range of possibilities. At Echome our first task is to understand the unique needs of your hotel, and then draw on our experience to find solutions that not only improve sustainability and sales, but pay for themselves in a short space of time as well.

Once a sound strategy has been drawn up we’ll use our unique industry placement and team of qualified engineers to provide the best value implementing it with a minimum of disturbance to the smooth running of your hotel.

For more information or to book a free assessment call 0203 327 1078