‘Green’ hotel aims to cut energy use by 80%
Budget chain Premier Inn claims to be opening Britain’s greenest hotel.
The 20-room Premier Inn Tamworth in Staffordshire aims to reduce energy use by 80% against a standard hotel through new approaches to heating, cooling, lighting and ventilation.
Features include:
*Ground-source heat pumps use the earth’s natural energy to cool and heat rooms and provide hot water.
*Toilets flushed with recycled water from showers and baths will save 20% of the hotel’s entire water usage and will provide 100% of the hotel’s toilet water usage
*Sustainable wool from British sheep used in the walls to create efficient thermal and acoustic insulation
*Low energy Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting with motion sensors to ensure lights are only on when needed to give an energy saving of 80%.
*Solar panels will heat bath water
Staff will be trained to understand the technologies behind the design and to help with minimising everyday energy and water consumption, such as in washing, water usage, excessive heating or cooling.
Guests, who will pay from £53 a night, will be able to see the energy saved as part of a visual display in the hotel lobby, as well as learn about the technologies that have gone into the new building.
The property being seen as a flagship site for the company to trial the best green technologies available, to see which are viable for their hotels in future.
Alan Parker, CEO of Premier Inn parent company Whitbread, said: “This hotel is truly ground-breaking in that this combination of technologies has never been used before in any hotel in the UK, let alone a budget one.
“We chose from a range of technologies that we believe deliver the most positive social and environmental impact on future hotel buildings.
“As well as designing the hotel to be energy efficient, we will also be involving our team members and customers in the green challenge.
“This is a unique joint approach which we will be testing in Tamworth as a first step to making more green changes across our hotel estate.”
by Phil Davies
Phil Davies
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