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Premier Inn bedroom
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The 65-bedroom site, which opened on Monday 23rd January, features a number of in-built designs to reduce energy use.
Ground source heat pumps warm and cool rooms and water. 70 % of the hotel’s hot water, heating and air conditioning will be provided in this way, according to Premier Inn’s parent-company, Whitbread.
Bedroom key-cards ensure that energy is only used when a room is occupied while
low-flow showerheads and grey water recycling are installed in bathrooms to cut down on water consumption.
Humid air from bathrooms is filtered into a containment system, fused with cool, fresh air from outside then fed into bedrooms via climate control systems located in each room. The bespoke systems will recover 85% of bathroom heat.
Motion detectors are fitted in corridors and stairwells and the lobby, restaurant and bar are lit by LED lighting. The hotel’s kitchen features high-efficiency equipment to reduce energy used in cooking and refrigeration.
The most innovative development is the car park’s four electric car charging points, which are powered by 10 kW photovoltaic panels on the hotel’s roof.
Whitbread used sustainably-sourced timber for the hotel flooring, preventing the use of 100 tonnes of concrete. Mineral wool made from recycled glass and bonded using a bio-based technology was used to provide high-quality thermal and acoustic wall insulation.
Chris George, head of energy and environment for Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants, said: “Our intention with the project was to learn from our existing sustainable hotels and design an impressive and sustainable product. We have done that and demonstrated that green hotel design is possible within the mainstream market and does not have to mean ‘boutique’ or ‘expensive’.
The £5.9m project is part of the company’s bid to reduce its CO2 emissions by 25% and its water consumption by 20% by 2020.
George said: “The project will help us to upgrade our existing network of 600 sites to become more sustainable as we incorporate the best performing technologies from Camborne into future newbuilds and the retrofit programme of our existing estate.”
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