ASHRAE publishes energy efficiency guidance for hotels.
Press Release Summary:
"Advanced Energy Design Guide for Highway Lodging" provides recommendations on achieving 30% energy savings over minimum code requirements. It focuses on hotels along highways with up to 80 rooms, 4 stories or less, that use unitary heating and air-conditioning equipment. Case studies provide examples of advanced highway lodging energy designs and, even while targeting new hotels, guidance can also be used for existing hotels in areas of lighting, hot water, and laundry service.
Original Press Release:
New Publication Provides Energy Efficiency Guidance for Hotels
ATLANTA - When visiting your next hotel this summer, check to see if energy efficiency is on the amenities list. If it's not, it should be.
Recommendations on achieving 30 percent energy savings over minimum code requirements are contained in the newly published Advanced Energy Design Guide for Highway Lodging. The energy savings guidance for design of new hotels provides a first step toward achieving a net-zero-energy building.
"The recommendations allow the building industry to create more energy-efficient hotels while maintaining the quality and functionality of the space to provide a pleasant guest experience," said Ron Jarnagin, chair of the committee that wrote the book.
The book, published by ASHRAE, gives guidance to architects, engineers, contractors and other building team members on how to easily achieve advanced levels of energy savings without having to resort to detailed calculations or analyses. A few tips on how to achieve energy savings now are included below.
Written in partnership with The American Institute of Architects, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, the U.S. Green Building Council, and the U.S. Department of Energy, the book is available for free in electronic form at www.ashrae.org/freeaedg. Hard copies are available for purchase in the ASHRAE Bookstore through the same Web page.
The Guide focuses on typical hotels found along highways that have up to 80 rooms, generally four stories or less, that use unitary heating and air-conditioning equipment. Buildings of these types with these HVAC&R configurations represent a significant amount of commercial hotel space in the United States.
Examples of advanced highway lodging energy designs are provided in case studies to illustrate the recommendations and the flexibility offering in achieving the energy savings in the Guide.
Although the guidance targets new hotels, some of the design tips included in the guide that allow hotels to save energy immediately are appropriate for existing hotels as well:
Lighting:
Hot Water:
Laundry Service:
The cost of the print version of Advanced Energy Design Guide for Highway Lodging, is $62 ($53 members). To download the free electronic version, please visit www.ashrae.org/freeaedg.
To order a print copy of the book, contact ASHRAE Customer Service at 1-800-527-4723 (United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide), fax 404-321-5478, or visit at http://www.ashrae.org/bookstore.