Energy Efficiency Improvements, Major Hotel, Austria
| Client: |
Major Hotels Group |
| Location: |
Austria |
| Date: |
2004 |
| Project: |
Review of Electrical Consumption |
In May 2004, the company re-opened the Hotel following a 60m euros refurbishment and extension. Within 3 months of the property re-opening, the hotel management realised that the electrical consumption was considerably higher than expected.
Staff at Abricon had surveyed the property in 1997 and were called back in to undertake a comparison of the electrical performance before and after the work.
The refurbishment was carried out to a high standard with all of the back-of-house technical areas incorporating modern system and control techniques. A large number of issues were however identified, and an action plan developed with the hotel’s management to reduce consumption.
The recommendations included:
- Improving the awareness of hotel staff of energy issues.
- Alterations to the hotels’ metering and data analysis system
- Suggestions for tightening the control of the building’s HVAC systems by using the extensive BMS in a more pro-active manner
- Modifications to the lighting installation in both public areas and guest bedrooms.
Many of the lighting related recommendations have also reduced the maintenance requirements, further increasing savings.
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