Futuristic, sustainable hotels the next frontier for hospitality | News | Eco-Business ... - 1 views
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built on one common principle - climate resilience
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designed to withstand the future threat of worsening climate change such as sea level rises
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Both projects integrate sustainable energy sources and systems, and are
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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.