![]() Grand Hyatt Singapore is also continuing its efforts with a list of new “green” projects and initiatives this year, including recycling water from the laundry plant for non-potable application, using NEWater for non-potable applications and recoveringĬondensation from the air-conditioning systems for use in the cooling towers. In 2004, the hotel’s GEM project won the Bronze Award in the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) Asian Innovation Awards. ![]() The hotel has earned recognition of its “green” efforts through several other awards such as Winner in the Retrofitted Building Category at the ASEAN Energy Awards and Winner of the Singapore BCA Energy Efficient Building Awards in 2003. The savings are the result of the reduced use of energy and water, which also reduces the hotel’s carbon footprint. In 2000, the hotel re-engineered its entire air-conditioning and mechanical ventilating systems, saving approximately S$1.2 million a year through the Green Energy Management Project, or GEM, proving that environmentally sound initiatives can also be financially rewarding. This initiative taken by ASEAN is a commendable further step forward in their efforts to ensure that hotels adhere to responsible green standards.” says Mr Willi Martin, Area Vice President of Hyatt International Hotels & Resorts and General Manager of Grand Hyatt Singapore. “We at Grand Hyatt Singapore are fully committed to environmental sustainablility. The hotel must also be friendly to the environment and not polluting or adversely impact nature. The ASEAN Green Hotel is a hotel which is environmentally-friendly and adopts energy conservation measures with more than ten major criteria to fulfill, based on energy and water efficiency, environmental policy and actions for hotel operation, use of green products, collaboration with the community and local organizations and practice sustainable eco-tourism. At the recent ASEAN Tourism Forum 2008 held in Bangkok, Thailand, Grand Hyatt Singapore was presented with the ASEAN Green Hotel Standard 2008- 2009 award, the hotel’s second award in the ASEAN arena with regards to the hotel’s positive environmental actions.Īcknowledging the urgency of global environmental issues, the National Tourism Organisations (NTOs) of various ASEAN nations agreed on the implementation of the ASEAN Green Hotel Standard, beginning in 2008. Singapore, February 2008 – The commitment by Grand Hyatt Singapore over the past 10 years in the area of “green” projects and initiatives that embrace both economic and environmental sustainability have not gone unnoticed.
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