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Address: Nationwide
Owner: Starwood hotels and resorts Worldwide, Inc
PROJECT SUMMARY
LEED certified national hotel chain designed with environmentally conscious goals.
YRG SERVICES
- Develop and support sustainability goals of ELEMENT brand and hotels
- Technical assistance and research support
- Knowledge management for compiling lessons learned across developments
- LEED implementation guidelines to support certification achievement across developments.
- Operations and management support
- Green cleaning protocols
- Ongoing guest education initiatives
- Recycling protocol
STRATEGIES AND RESULTS
- The brand-wide LEED initiative was successfully launched in April 2008.
- Lexington, MA has applied for LEED Silver certification
- An online tool
- ELEMENT LEED Developer Roadmap released in 2008
- Green design, construction and operational standards developed to be adapted across the brand
- All hotels to realize water savings of 20%
- All hotels to have only low-VOC finishes, paints and carpets
- Paper, plastic and glass recycling available in all hotel rooms
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Targeting LEED-NC certification
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