Wiring it Right

Tejinder Ahluwalia, who has worked as the Director of Engineering at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, enlightens on the concept of engineering the hotels optimally to enhance its well being and attain a sustainable environment as well.

- Tejinder Ahluwalia

HARNESSING ECOLOGY

The hotel industry has joined the Global efforts to reduce carbon foot print and GHG emissions by addressing the sustainability issues.

The international hotel corporations are operating with a triple-bottom line approach (foundational efficiency measures, capital expenditures and product/technology innovation, to develop wide-ranging operational and systems initiatives that make economic sense). They are committed to finding innovative ways to do more with less in a manner that makes business sense for the owners and share holders.

They are helping to drive sustainability efforts and build resilience by thinking about the hotel building designs and business in a way that is agile and flexes with the changing needs of our guests, the environment and communities in which they are operating.

Many international hotel chains have already established the goals to address the global issues of environment protection by committing themselves to reduce GHS emissions by 30 per cent per built hotel room by the year 2020 where the year 2008 is the reference year for comparison.