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hannahamorton

Grand Cancun Eco Island - 0 views

www.beautifullife.info/...grand-cancun-eco-island

green hotel eco-friendly

shared by hannahamorton on 17 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • Grand Cancun will be a mega-building, an offshore city standing on stilts where hotels, commercial centres, convention centres, cinemas and loads more will provide the ultimate experience in hospitality while cleaning the seas, being totally self sufficient, having zero-carbon-footprint, and providing drinking water and energy for the city from renewable resources.
  • Grand Cancun will provide part of the city`s needs with clean, local renewable energy.
  • Solar panels will cover most of surfaces, including see-through photovoltaic polymers on the dome.
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  • Every residential block on the tower will have vertical wind turbines and solar panels.
  • All rain water will be collected and reused.
  • Underwater there are systems of tidal and wave energy collectors
  • A large inverse-osmosis desalination plant will provide drinking water for all the users of the complex and some for the city.
  • The shape of the building, its private beach and waterfront, and the coast will direct water right through waste collectors for floating solids and hydrocarbons.
  • Above the water everything is planned to care about the environment, and about motivating people to share the responsibility.
  • hannahamorton on 17 Jan 19
     
    The Grand Cancun eco-complex including hotels and convention centers, set to be completed in 2020, will drive ecotourism to Cancun while utilizing multiple green hotel technologies. The mega-building will have zero carbon footprint and be able to provide drinking water and energy to the city, all while helping clean the surrounding ocean water of pollution and waste. Remarkably, the entire structure is built on stilts, taking up no space from the ocean marine life. I recommend checking out the pictures in the article, the design is incredible!
angelamenoher

Viva Las Vegas and Automated HR a Case Study by Ascentis Corporation - 0 views

www.ascentis.com/...cun_Resort_border_Mar-2009.pdf

HRIS HRMS Hotel

shared by angelamenoher on 05 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • angelamenoher on 05 Apr 12
     
    Cancun Resort was growing beyond past the ability to hand enter employee data. They needed a HRIS. They needed a system that could scale up with their growth but could not afford the expensive People Soft which based on my search of articles is a problem for most small to midsize companies. Typically companies buy a HRMS like Ascentis, Epicor HCM, People Strategy Inc or Sage Abra HRIS to name a few software companies. Its seems that HRIS systems can cost anywhere from a couple thousand to a couple million. Pricing costs increase with the number of employees. In this case study the Cancun Resort needed a reasonable priced system and Ascentis was their answer for a scalable system that was user friendly, produced automated reports like EEOC, sent employee birthday and anniversary alerts, automatic inputs of time and attendance, handled payroll benefits, and captured absentee trends. On the Ascentis website there are also other case studies and a video of the Mandarin Oriental HR director.
Alyssa Westmeyer

Futuristic, sustainable hotels the next frontier for hospitality | News | Eco-Business ... - 1 views

www.eco-business.com/...tels-next-frontier-hospitality

sustainability grand cancun castillo green

shared by Alyssa Westmeyer on 27 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • built on one common principle - climate resilience
  • designed to withstand the future threat of worsening climate change such as sea level rises
  • Both projects integrate sustainable energy sources and systems, and are
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  • contain several hotel amenities as well as a wind farm, desalination plant, and ocean waste facility among others
  • offshore marine platform that will enable the Mexican city to address their energy problems and reduce their fossil fuels dependency
  • alleviates water scarcity, minimises overdevelopment on the coast and helps control marine pollution
  • avoid damaging the underwater ecosystem
  • covered with solar panels
  • Rainwater and wastewater will also be collected and respectively reused and purified through recycling facilities
  • underwater energy farm that will harvest 47MW of tidal, current and wave energy
  • can extract, clean and purify waste gathered from the ocean
  • contains wind turbines that can generate 40MW/h of renewable energy
  • Alyssa Westmeyer on 27 Sep 13
     
    The Grand Cancun has been designed to anticipate natural disasters climate change, as well as incorporated amenities that will make it self-sustaining and even beneficial to the city in which it resides. Including a wind and underwater energy farm, desalination plant, ocean waste facility, wind turbines and solar panels. Not only this but its design will avoid destruction of the underwater ecosystem during development and construction. This is not only a hotel but also it incorporates a facility for marine research. The design appears expensive but it has the opportunity to recapture its investment through the building's own energy savings, the sale of the energy it generates to external users, its ability to remain largely unaffected by rising sea levels or other climate change and the incremental business related to the research laboratories.
tania morgan

How Hotels Are Going Green for Guests - 3 views

www.executivetravelmagazine.com/...els-are-going-green-for-guests

shared by tania morgan on 07 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • I make a quick stop for goodies and feel like I’ve entered a miniature Whole Foods: bulk nuts, dried fruit, even local chocolate and salsa from (according to the salesperson) the Lexington farmers’ market.
  • a kitchen full of Energy Star appliances.
  • Filtered water pours into the sink, under which I find two bins for recyclables. The toilets are dual-flush, the showers are low-flow, the shampoo and conditioner are in bulk dispensers, and the bellhop tells me that the art on my walls, depicting a leaf motif, was crafted from recycled aluminum and car tires.
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  • I can grab one of the gratis bikes downstairs and go for a spin on the nearby bike trail into town, or take a dip in the pool that’s cleaned with saline salt solution instead of eye-burning chlorine.
  • Owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Element is the first chain to receive an LEED-certified gold rating, the second-highest standard bestowed on a building by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
  • 212-room property, including saving water and electricity, recycling paper and implementing the towel and linen reuse program now common in most hotels across the country.
  • “It’s a 2 to 3 percent premium above the total cost of the building to go the LEED-certified route,” he says, adding that he hopes to offset that cost from the operational side in the next three to four years.
  • Energy savings include keeping electricity down to a minimum through natural lights and the use of CFL bulbs, low-flow showers and dual-flush toilets that save approximately 942,000 gallons of water annually at Element Lexington, and a roofing material that reflects heat from the sun, so the hotel won’t tax its air-conditioning system in the summer. Keeping with LEED standards, Element also purchases energy that comes from a green source: the wind.
  • Put a compost bin in the back of that megaresort in Cancun, and suddenly you have an “eco-lodge.”
  • Meredith Elbaum
  • Indeed, government incentives and big business could very well be behind this latest surge in new hotel design.
  • Green Seal has also been vocal in its assessment that a typical average-size lodging uses more resources in a week than 100 families use in a year.
  • says it’s hard to find a resort that actually practices what it preaches. “Seeing if they have LEED is one criterion, but you still have to do your research.”
  • “We heard from our global accounts, players like Microsoft, AT&T and Hewlett-Packard, that their goal was to find a hotel company that had some sort of green program in place,” says Brian McGuinness, “and we realized we need to do this.”
  • According to Arthur Weissman, this new initiative has led to an increase in revenue for hotels that join the movement. “The Doubletree in Portland, Oregon, told us they received more than $3 million in business due to their green certification,” notes Weissman.
  • But what about the typical traveler who simply wants a decent shower, a comfortable bed and perhaps a workout before turning in for the night? Workers who have no corporate mandate to go green are known to be extravagant when away from home, indulging in energy-chugging hot tubs and (dare I say it?) forgetting to turn off the lights and the A/C when they leave their rooms.
  • We need to find a balance.”
  • There’s certainly room for more growth in Element’s green design, such as the use of solar panels to heat the pool and the incorporation of a master switch, which many hotels in Europe already have.
  • The latter works by simply inserting your room key into a switch inside the room that turns on the electricity, heat and water. When you leave the room, you have to take that room key with you, thus turning off all the appliances.
  • “We’re just trying to do the right thing,” says McGuinness. “At the very least, we’re at the entry level: eco-friendly and not increasing the carbon footprint.” It may not be a green revolution quite yet, but it seems like a darn good starting point.
  • david swatscheno on 07 Jun 12
     
    This article is all about hotels going green and trying to get LEED certified. The one Boston hotel is doing things like having dual flush toilets, low flow showers, shampoo and conditioner in bulk dispensers, and a roofing material that reflects the sun to save energy costs. Another thing involved with getting LEED certified is getting energy from abouther source, this particular hotel is using the wind. It is expensive to do and doesnt appeal to everyone, hotel managers must figure out whats in the best interest for them and getting people in and out of their hotel.
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  • marilyn diaz on 28 Aug 12
     
    This article deals with how hotels are going green. Many have the typical saving shower head, the double flush toilet, or the special roof panels. Some go a little further than just putting a garbage bin to recycle. Many hotels are now placing cards in the rooms asking if you want linens changed when they clean the room, and for example may ask you to do something specific like throw the towels on the floor. While it may be an expensive thing to start turning hotels into green hotels, profits are being seen as big companies are now pushing their employees to stay at green hotels versus non green hotels. This may be the extra push management needs to make the decision to go green. Also, it says not all customers may care about the green issue, but some may try. We just need to find a balance and not expect all people on vacation to be a happy go lucky green freak.
  • Gaby Belardo on 29 Aug 12
     
    To add onto Marilyns comment, not only are hotels doing the basics to go green, but a lot of hotels in california are taking the extra step, such as The Kimpton Hotels, and The orchard. They have changed the carpets and wallpaper for lower emission. They added recycle bins in every room in all 40 of their hotels across the country. Lastly, and one of the the additions I find most beneficial is their implementation of key card energy control, where a room key will be needed to activate the electricity in each room, and also shutting all electricity off when they leave.
  • tania morgan on 19 Sep 12
     
    This article is about how starwood hotels are trying to become fullscale eco-friendly but some are hotels are only greenwashing. This article is stating that it is not enough to use one green practice and call yourself an eco-friendly hotel.
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