Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 3 March 2008 – Over the past 8 years, Grand Hyatt Singapore has undertaken many “green” projects and initiatives that intertwine both economic and environmental sustainability. The hotel has adopted a focused and cohesive approach to improving its energy management in line with Global Hyatt Corporation’s commitment to the environment. This has included integrating innovative technology and astute asset management to provide safe and comfortable accommodation and workspaces for both guests and employees, while committing to a path of sustainability.
In 2000, the hotel re-engineered its entire air-conditioning and mechanical ventilating systems, saving approximately S$1.2 million a year through the Green Energy Management Project, or GEM, proving that environmentally sound initiatives can also be financially rewarding. The savings are the result of the reduced use of energy and water, which also reduces the hotel’s carbon footprint.
The hotel has earned recognition of its “green” efforts through such awards as Winner in the Retrofitted Building Category at the ASEAN Energy Awards and Winner of the Singapore BCA Energy Efficient Building Awards in 2003. In 2004, the hotel’s GEM project won the Bronze Award in the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) Asian Innovation Awards.
Grand Hyatt Singapore is also continuing its efforts with a list of new “green” projects and initiatives this year, including recycling water from the laundry plant for non-potable application, using NEWater for non-potable applications and recovering condensation from the air-conditioning systems for use in the cooling towers. In addition, all guestroom windows are covered with solar film that not only provides increased comfort for our guests, but also boosts energy savings.
“We are also looking extensively into recycling to minimise unnecessary waste, and our efforts include glass and paper recycling, waste oil recovery and the use of non-chemical water treatment and condensate from guestroom fan coil units for the cooling towers make-up water,” says Mr Willi Martin, Area Vice President of Hyatt International Hotels & Resorts and General Manager of Grand Hyatt Singapore.
He continues: “We are currently working on a Trigeneration concept, or Trigen, with the assistance from Professor Ng Kim Choon from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore. Trigeneration refers to the simultaneous production of three useful energies - heat, power and cooling - from a primary fuel input, natural gas. Following the successful implementation of Trigen, the hotel will produce some of its own electricity and use waste heat to produce hot water, steam and refrigeration, thus improving our Energy Utilisation Factor (EUF) by a further 35% and reducing our carbon emissions by nearly 3000 tonnes per year - an act that will do much for the environment.
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