The five-star Corinthia Hotel Lisbon has taken out the award for Environmental Sustainability Project of the Year 2015 by the Portuguese Association of Hospitality and Restaurants (AHRESP).
The is the first year AHRESP, the largest business association in Portugal, has held the awards, which aim to recognise and reward excellence across Portugal’s tourism industry.
Corinthia Hotel Lisbon was among the final shortlist of five nominees for the Environmental Sustainability category, and was chosen Portugal’s Best Environmental Sustainable project by online voting.
Commenting on the win, the hotel’s general manager, Reuben Misfud, said: “In 2007, we started developing tailor-made engineering solutions with state-of-the-art equipment, meaning we can now offer high levels of performance on energy efficiency and we are able to produce energy autonomously. Our extensive sustainability project has so far allowed us to improve our energy consumption profile from a 9.3GWh per year to 7.28GWh per year reducing our carbon footprint by up to 1.341/ton.”
Corinthia Hotel Lisbon’s Energy Efficient Hotel project was implemented in partnership with Galp Soluções de Energia and Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (ISQ), which developed innovative energy solutions to meet the hotel’s needs. The hotel’s water reservoirs, the heat exchangers and the energy management system were designed according to the hotel energy profile.
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