Sustainable Design
For the sustainable design, it is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of social, economic, and ecological sustainability. In the Langham Place Hotel, there are four areas that have sustainable designs, including public area, sleep, eat or drink and meet or celebrate.
For the public area of Langham Place Hotel, double glazed windows are used in order to maintain the inside temperature. This take the benefits that can save the energy cost since the flow of incoming and outgoing heat will be reduced due to the thermal insulation created by the windows. Thus, less energy is used to heat up or cool down the air, results on lower energy bill. Moreover, in lobby and corridors, energy saving lightings is used to reduce local pollution and the emissions of greenhouse gases.
About the sleeping area, the hotel installed heat pumps which recover heat from the chillers. Using heat pumps can reduce the carbon emissions and it has an efficient conversion rate of energy to heat. Besides, Langham Place hotel use treated seawater for toilet flushing, this can reduce the usage of fresh water and thus cut the water cost.
In the eating or drinking area, in-house organic herbal garden is developed that supply the kitchen and bar use. The food waste from the hotel can be converted into fertilizer for the organic herbal garden, and at the same time with planting herbals, photosynthesis of herbals can provide fresh air.
In the meeting or celerbrating area, electronic signage is used for all banquet and meetings. The benefits of this electronic signage are no paper waste, dynamic content control and cost-effectiveness. The hotel also offer green table seting options to reduce wastage, tea-break decoration use environmental consevation as theme.
Reference:
1. Green Hotel Hong Kong | Social Responsibility at Langham Place Mongkok Hong Kong http://hongkong.langhamplacehotels.com/info/enviro_actions.htm 2. Green
For the public area of Langham Place Hotel, double glazed windows are used in order to maintain the inside temperature. This take the benefits that can save the energy cost since the flow of incoming and outgoing heat will be reduced due to the thermal insulation created by the windows. Thus, less energy is used to heat up or cool down the air, results on lower energy bill. Moreover, in lobby and corridors, energy saving lightings is used to reduce local pollution and the emissions of greenhouse gases.
About the sleeping area, the hotel installed heat pumps which recover heat from the chillers. Using heat pumps can reduce the carbon emissions and it has an efficient conversion rate of energy to heat. Besides, Langham Place hotel use treated seawater for toilet flushing, this can reduce the usage of fresh water and thus cut the water cost.
In the eating or drinking area, in-house organic herbal garden is developed that supply the kitchen and bar use. The food waste from the hotel can be converted into fertilizer for the organic herbal garden, and at the same time with planting herbals, photosynthesis of herbals can provide fresh air.
In the meeting or celerbrating area, electronic signage is used for all banquet and meetings. The benefits of this electronic signage are no paper waste, dynamic content control and cost-effectiveness. The hotel also offer green table seting options to reduce wastage, tea-break decoration use environmental consevation as theme.
Reference:
1. Green Hotel Hong Kong | Social Responsibility at Langham Place Mongkok Hong Kong http://hongkong.langhamplacehotels.com/info/enviro_actions.htm 2. Green