Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Completes First Sustainability Analysis for Palmer House Hilton (États-Unis)
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Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Completes First Sustainability Analysis for Palmer House Hilton (États-Unis)
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Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Completes First Sustainability Analysis Using Green Globes Technology Platform for Palmer House Hilton
Firm’s Assessment Serves as Industry Standard for Identifying Enhanced Energy Plans and Operational Savings for Hotels
Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels announced today that it has completed an energy and sustainability analysis of the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago, using its Green Globes technology platform. The assessment marks the first time that the interactive, online Green Globes system has been adapted to assess energy and sustainability features at a hotel.
The assessment of the Palmer House Hilton, an iconic, world class landmark hotel, owned by Thor Equities and Joseph Sitt, measured the success of its extensive sustainability effort to date, and provided direction for the hotel to make further improvements toward greater energy efficiency and sustainability. In addition, the technology module created to apply the Green Globes platform to hospitality properties may form the basis of a new industry standard.
“We are constantly looking for ways to enhance service delivery to our clients, and this assessment provides the Palmer House Hilton with a roadmap for continuous improvement in energy and sustainability,” said Bruce Stemerman, managing director for Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels’ strategic advisory and asset management practice. “The analysis includes financial return metrics for each program element, so that hotel management can quickly make improvements that will result in direct and rapid impact to the hotel’s bottom line, and begin planning for longer term strategies that can be achieved over time.”
The audit uncovered low-cost and no-cost strategies, including the development of energy and water conservation policies, formulation of a renovation waste management policy, and establishment of targets and metrics. Many of these strategies can also be applied to other hotels.
Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels developed this proprietary tool with its Green Globes technology platform, developed for other properties types and licensed to organizations in Canada and the U.S. prior to Jones Lang LaSalle acquiring the underlying software. Unlike other building rating systems, Green Globes uses an interactive, Q&A-style format to analyze the effectiveness of a building’s strategies in areas such as energy and carbon, water, use of resources, effluents and emissions, indoor environment and environmental management.
In the case of Palmer House Hilton, the assessment provided benchmarks for energy, water, waste and indoor air quality indicators, providing performance measurement for the building, and identifying best management practices and areas of improvement.
“Our approach is focused on three components: operational improvements, energy procurement, and capital investments,” said Jiri Skopek, managing director of Jones Lang LaSalle and developer of the original Green Globes platform as well as the new hotel module. “We expect that the 1,640-room Palmer House Hilton can expand upon its already proactive sustainable practices.”
“Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels’ program was an excellent next step for us, given the sustainability practices we had in place, and the existing building structure of the Palmer House Hilton. The evaluation identifies additional performance improvements and saving opportunities from ‘low-cost, no cost’ to ‘major capital Improvements’," said Eric Tschudy, the property engineer for the Palmer House Hilton. “This tool supports my teams’ work in achieving best sustainable practices. This is important to our business, and it’s important to our clients.”
Hilton hotels are showing leadership in the industry with their internal SPORT (Sustainable Property Opportunity Report Tracking) and HEAT (Hilton Environmental Analysis & Tracking) Programs.
The Green Globes rating system was designed to evaluate and rate the best energy and environmental practices in the management and operation of existing buildings. The goals of the program are to monitor current practices and identify opportunities to save energy and water, reduce waste and prevent water, air and land pollution during building management and operation, based upon the key elements of eco-efficiency. The program involves a graduated rating system designed to recognize buildings that have achieved various levels of energy and environmental performance.
Having achieved success in setting the industry standard for office buildings, Green Globes has partnered with Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels to create this model for the hotel industry. Green Globes’ focus on existing buildings differentiates it from the other certification and analysis programs that exist today.
“Many historic, landmark properties around the world question the feasibility of impacting their sustainable practices,” said Skopek. “The truth is, every property can do something, and this assessment shows hotels where to start.”
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