How Green Is Your Hotel?
A big green hooray for you!
You’ve dutifully hung your towels on the rack instead of leaving them on the bathroom floor. You’ve chosen hotels with low-flow showers and compact fluorecent light bulbs. You’ve opted for shampoo from a dispenser instead of those tiny bottles. And a big green hooray for the hotels offering these amenities (and saving on operating costs in the process).
Which of these environmental features is the traveler’s favorite?
Turns out: none of them. Or all of them. “These green attributes are important to travelers,” says Michelle Millar, assistant professor, University of San Francisco School of Management. “But it seems that the most important is whether the hotel has some kind of certification that says it’s green.” Millar and Seyhmus Baloglu, of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, surveyed 571 business and leisure travelers and published the results in the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly . It claims to be the first study to examine hotels’ green initiatives from the travelers’ perspective.
But not all certifications are alike, since different agencies have different standards. Millar says LEED [Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design] certification administered by the U.S. Green Building Council headquartered in Washington, DC, is “probably the standard, although it’s very expensive.”
A LEED design and construction review for a hotel can cost as much as $27,500. Factors include site location, water efficiency, energy use, materials and indoor air quality, weighed against whether the building is new or a conversion of an existing building. Out of a 100 point scale, 80-plus points earns a platinum rating (10 hotels so far), through gold and silver down to 40-49 points for plain vanilla LEED certification.
“The hospitality industry has become a mainstay of the green building movement,” says Doug Gatlin, USGBC’s vice president of market development. “USGBC has been seeing dramatic growth in the number of LEED-certified hotel properties in the past two years.” As of August 4, 2011, USGBC reports that 132 projects have achieved LEED certification, while another 1,069 are in the process.
States have also gotten into the act; among them, Florida, California and Maryland have their own green building standards.
Then there’s Houston-based “Green” Hotels Association , which doesn’t recommend certification. Rather, its member hotels register by mail after voluntarily committing to saving water and energy and reducing waste. “How they do that is up to them,” says founder and president Patty Griffin. “A hotel in New York City, in Phoenix, Arizona or on the coast will have different needs and different guests.
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ii-moonflower: Raindance Point.
„Creativity works like a spiral staircase”, says, in one of the interviews, Klaus Grohe, a grandson of the company founder, presently the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hansgrohe AG. In creative space, there is a spark passing from one participant of the creative group to another, a spark that ignites the brains and uplifts the creative spirit higher and higher, up and up. That exactly is the atmosphere omnipresent at Hansgrohe since 1901 at the creation of „ Ideas for Bathrooms” . Cooperation with world renowned designers rendered the Company over 260 prestigious awards for design. Cooperation with Andreas Haug and Tom Schönherr – the founders of Phoenix Design – can certainly be claimed to be one of the longest and most successful in terms of relations between a manufacturer and a design studio. Each their piece is exceptional – deemed by them complete only when it can appeal to the mind, inspire imagination and win the heart. It was not just by chance that the idea of Klaus Grohe, implemented into reality thanks to the cooperation with Phoenix Design in 2003, simply revolutionized the market. Similarly to “Starck Bathroom”, which a decade before opened a new chapter in bathroom design, turning a place of mere hygienic functionality into a “temple of personal retreat”, the large format shower head, the prototype of Raindance AIR program – has changed the integral part of the bathroom – the shower, and awakened in the body a “temple of senses”. The key to the unique concept of Raindance AIR shower program is the patented technology of airing the water steam, the technology which joined water and air, bringing back the memory of the natural elements. AIR is the soul of Raindance showers, the soul which so far has resisted any attempt of interception despite the mass “attack of the clones” as we may call the numerous attempts to copy the original product. Yet, there’s no copy of the organic wholeness which emerges from the inside and expands outside in the maturity process. Unique items have a deep hidden core. They have a heart. There is a certain bond created between the manufacturer and the designer, this bond results in cyclicality. The circle never returns to the same place, the standard is always up and so are the dreams. The circle imprint would look like a spiral showing the direction in the development of civilization.
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