BUILDING PERFORMANCE Client of the Year Premier Inn, Gatwick Airport
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The challenge Whitbread, whose brands include Premier Inn, Beefeater, Table Table, Brewers Fayre, Taybarns and Costa Coffee, launched its fi rst set of public carbon targets in 2009, seeking to reduce CO2
by 26% relative to
sales (using 2008/09 as a baseline). In 2011/12, the company reduced absolute CO2
emissions by just under
1% while building 3,640 new Premier Inn bedrooms and 11 new restaurants. As a result, Whitbread has set itself even
more challenging targets, including a 25% reduction in relative emissions by 2015, rising to 50% by 2020, and a 10% reduction in its supply chain.
The response In recognition of its in-house energy management processes, Whitbread achieved its fi rst ISO50001-accredited management system in late 2011, after holding the BSEN16001 standard for a year. Whitbread’s achievements are based on
a strategy to build and refurbish hotels to high sustainable standards. This approach has been typifi ed by the development of the Premier Inn hotel and Brewers Fayre pub
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restaurant in Barry, South Wales – a £7.5m development that opened in October 2012. Achieving high standards of sustainability
was a condition of the planning permission granted by the Vale of Glamorgan Council, and one of the reasons why Whitbread was selected to develop the site following a competitive tender. The hotel and restaurant feature a
variety of innovative technologies to facilitate high sustainability performance. Bedrooms in the hotel are ventilated using high effi ciency heat recovery ventilation units, in conjunction with non-openable windows, while restaurant ventilation also incorporates heat-recovery technology. Low-energy light fi ttings and lamps
have been fi tted throughout. Grey water recycling, which is a standard model across Whitbread developments, collects drainage water from hand basins and showers and reuses it to fl ush toilets.
The results The Barry hotel and restaurant was awarded a BREEAM excellent rating, making it one of the greenest and most energy effi cient projects of its kind in South Wales.
Quick wins Where Whitbread identifi ed waste:
Behaviour Induction oven left on overnight Fridge/freezer doors propped open Friers turned on too early
Lighting LEDs replaced with halogen in bar Outside lighting only off between 05:00 and 06:00 Restaurant ‘front of house’ lighting timing issue
March 2013 CIBSE Journal 29
2013 Winner
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