Hotels

Aiming for environmental accreditation, a green badge to be proud of, or simply looking to reduce your utilities expenditure? Echome specialise in providing tailored energy and resource solutions to your hotel.

Providing water, energy, and heating for a hotel full of guests can be expensive business, but its not always clear where and when this drain on resources is coming from. Echome specialises in analysing your utilities usage and providing innovative solutions to help you save as much as 20% on your current expenditure without compromising on the comfort so important to the happiness of your guests. We understand that hotels operate 24/7, and any development needs to be as discreet as possible. 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.

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 rocketing and forecast to continue to do so, there has never been a more opportune time to re-evaluate energy usage. Fortunately the market is bursting with some simple and ingenious solutions that help us to save water, gas, and energy, and ensure your overheads don’t get out of control.

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

• You cannot manage what you cannot measure. Monitoring systems give the power to oversee electricity, gas, and water usage, in order to identify and rectify energy spikes, leaks, failures, and general inefficiency. Find out where and when the biggest energy drains are coming from and how to rein these in.
• Economical control of water flow and temperature. Installing aerated shower heads and faucets, or rainwater harvesting, grey water recycling, and solar thermal heating systems.
• Better control of air quality, flow, and temperature using timers, presence sensors, and ground and air source heat pumps.
• Make efficient use of conventional fossil energy, and produce electricity independently by installing photovoltaic solar panels and voltage optimisation systems.
• Dynamic and efficient lighting systems making the most of centralised and localised control, timers, and presence sensors.

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. Here at Echome we are committed to understanding the unique needs of your hotel, and our team of industry specialists have the experience and training to advise you which areas to prioritise to bring down your hotel’s utilities costs, both immediately and in the years to come. Once a cost-effective plan has been drawn up we can use our unique industry placement and team of qualified engineers to provide the very best value implementing it with a minimum of disturbance to the smooth running of your hotel.