 Main Environmental Characteristics:
- Established an environmental code of practice for staff members, such as not allow to smoke and produce noise in hotel during working hours;
- Provided operating guidelines for centralized heating and cooling system to staff members. The operating schedule of the system is adjusted according to the outdoor temperature and humidity in order to reduce energy consumption;
- Used heat pumps for hot water supply to reduce diesel consumption;
- Used natural lights as far as possible when cleaning the guest rooms to minimize the use of lights;
- Installed toilets with two selectable water flushing volumes;
- Used soap dispenser to replace plastic bottles of soap and shampoo in guest room;
- Used air purifier to purify the indoor air in smoking guest rooms so as to reduce the smell in the rooms;
- Participated in old clothes recycling programme organized by the government and donated old uniforms and clothes to charities for recycling.
Continuous Improvement Items:
- The hotel has adjusted the flushing water volumes of the toilet cistern for 112 guest rooms to reduce the water quantity for toilet flushing.
- The hotel has implemented insulation and waterproofing work on the hotel roof which assist the reduction of energy consumption for air- conditioning.
- The hotel will replace the hotel's outdoor sign with LED lighting so that the energy consumption can be reduced and the lifetime of the lights can be extended.
Some of the environmental measures accomplished:
- appointed a green manager and 2 representatives from each department to coordinate the environmental programme in the hotel.
- collected green ideas from staff.
- used sunlight during room servicing.
- set temperature of all vacant guest rooms at 27˚C.
- installed individual sub-metres in areas of high water consumption (kitchens) to monitor and control water consumption.
- installed toilet with two selectable water flushing volumes.
- installed thermostats in frying equipment to prevent overheating of cooking oil and reduce greasy fume emissions.
- included a consideration on environmental features of products/services during the procurement process.
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