Making all the difference...

Traditionional hotel goes green

• Optimising a hotel laundry service led to multiple savings and benefits
• Measures aimed at achieving a green label for hotel services

The 210 room Hotel Hemus is one of the oldest in Sofia and has 210 rooms. The hotel has 85 employees and offers wheelchair access, a children's play area, breakfast buffet, room service, dry cleaning and laundry, restaurant, conference hall, a lobby bar, parking, and a business centre. 

A solid investment all round

How cool pool controls can save money...

Sun, sea and energy...

• Renerwable energy measures and better human resource management led to € 3 500 in savings each year
• Measures are all part of the hotel's integrated environmental policy

Duni Royal Resort is a high-class holiday village located on the southern Black Sea coast of Sozopol. The resort occupies a total area of 740 000 square metres around a beautiful bay and a nature reserve.

Looking at the longer-term impact

• Finnish municipality engaged in an ESCO project to improve the energy efficiency of buildings
• Oil heating was replaced with pellets and heat recovery was installed in schools
• Monitoring was performed for five years after the project and demonstrated the concrete savings achieved

Akaa in Finland set out to improve the energy efficiency of its municipal buildings by launching a special project based on the Energy Services Company (ESCO) model.

Construction waste is basically material loss that creates additional cost, and minimising waste generation directly improves the cost-efficiency of the project. Successful construction site waste management is a sum of many factors. This checklist covers many of these different factors:

Service model, an incentive to succeed

• A service agreement was made to improve the energy efficiency of a hospital from the 1960s
• Contractor carried out renovations and now monitors energy usage and savings (contract duration is 15 years)

In 2014, a hospital in Karlovac Croatia was renovated according to energy service company (ESCO) practices. The renovation was part of the larger Energy Renovation of Public Sector Buildings programme, adopted by the Croatian government.

Designing out waste is a concept of minimising the life cycle waste of a building by considering design options for reducing waste in each stage: construction, refurbishment, and demolition or deconstruction.

Better comfort and safety for the little ones

• Local government modernised thermal properties of a nursery
• Actions included new insulation and heating, and solar panels to increase renewable energy

The local government of Chmielnik in Poland modernised a state nursery in 2019. The original building was built in the 1950s and 1960s and was in poor condition. The building was renovated in 1998 but it still lacked modern heating installations. High energy losses were proving costly.