Hoteliers Catching-Up With Carbon Footprints

At Day 2 of the BW Hotelier Indian Hospitality Awards & Summit 2017, the second panel discussion opened with eminent panelists on stage as namely Rajat Sethi, GM, The Grand New Delhi; Dhananjay Kumar, GM. WelcomHotel Dwarka; Rahul Prabhakar, Chief Engineer, ITC Maurya, NS Satish, National Head Sales and Marketing, Haier Appliances India and the session was moderated by Bikramjit Ray, Executive Editor, BW Hotelier at The Leela Ambience Gurugram on 24th March 2017.

The conclave theme was - ‘Inside Commercial Air Conditioning: Lowering Your Carbon Footprint Using Energy Efficient HVAC Syatem.’

Bikramjit started off by asking the panelists to share their learning from their personal experience of running hotels and the challenges in operations with water, temperature and ventilation appliances.

Rahul chose this as an opportunity to speak about one of his challenge having central air-conditioners and plug in play option is some rooms as some occupants feel cold and some complain about too much heat.
On the other hand Rahul spoke about his experience with a latest technology that he has installed in his hotel business, it helped his save immense heating energy and cost (almost by 40 per cent), its a liquid based technology which helps transferring the heat load to water. It tremendous cost saving for any hotelier, he said.

N S Satish went on to say, “Technology and appliances companies like Haier always plan equipment that would be sustainable for 30 years in advance, keeping in mind the normal temperature of the future. I believe the best practice is to design appliances for the future but totally rejecting the existing appliances in not advisable. Augmenting them up to the capacity of 60-70 per cent for efficiency can be also considered.”
Rishi said, “Now architect should be working with green engineers, have you seen Dubai hotels where glasses are solar panels in itself. There a lot of ideation needed before establishing a brand.”