Comments on: Popular Hotels Begin Sustainability Initiative

By: LEED EB Consultant

LEED EB Consultant — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:57:33 +0000

Hello, I am interested to know how the process is going with the hotel group and if they are saving money and lowering their energy & water use?

By: Aaron Fu

Aaron Fu — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:34:24 +0000

That’s awesome Darrel! With all these features like raincatchment, how much more does it cost your clients to build one of your homes vs. a ‘regular’ home. Also, I’m just curious, do you guys work toward the Green Building Council’s LEED certification?

It just seems that its mostly commercial property that builds with LEED in mind: http://tinyurl.com/78bkr7

By: Darrel McMaster

Darrel McMaster — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:15:59 +0000

That sounds great, but not nearly far enough.We build homes today that are fully sustainable ,100% raincatchment for all domestic use’s ,grid-tied solar for zero energy and the list goes on and on.Our company is presently bidding a resort that will be fully sustainable using the same all the features that we put in our homes. Let’s set the bar a little higher .

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By: Joe Ascanio

Joe Ascanio — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:09:43 +0000

Hotel chains across the board are beginning to adapt to “green”, sustainable principles for 2 main reasons: consumer demand and cost effectiveness. It is up to businesses to continue to provide the tools necessary that allow travel purveyors to explore all aspects of sustainable travel – affordably and beneficially.

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By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:53:39 +0000

Its fantastic that they’re implementing all these green design into their HQ, we can only hope they love them so much there that they roll them out to all their hotels & resorts!

A hotel that’s leading the way is (surprisingly?) found in the world’s largest polluter, in China the URBN hotel has not only, like the Crestline HQ, used plenty of natural resources like (living) bamboo but has even salvaged their bricks and tiles from demolished buildings in the vicinity. Its feature list is world leading as well, from rain water retention basins to passive solar shades!

I guess renovating all its 70 hotels to include features like these might not be in Crestline’s plans, but I’m still keeping my fingers crossed for more hotels in the US to take a cue from this Chinese start-up.

more here: http://tinyurl.com/93v92q