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Aloha 'Aina, Imua Kakou!
Friday, October 17, 2008
A little more than a month ago by chance I met Gary Bulson, Senior Engineer for the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa, mentioned in the article below. Have also been impressed with the leadership that the Hyatt Regency Kauai has been taking on related matters, particularly with solar and guest available recycling.
I compare this to another hotel here on Kauai that regularly left almost all of it's glass doors open on almost all floors, losing an untold amount of air-conditioning to the open environment. One, it was an incredible expense for the hotel not allocated to individual guests, and two, it was a huge waste of energy. All it would have taken to address is a quality control standard that all employees close any glass doors they saw left open by guests. But that was not done. Maybe it will be done in the future. Anyway, the Hyatt is providing great leadership on these matters throughout the state as with the following example:
"Hawaiian resort installs Inncom's ecoMODE system"
Oct 16, 2008 H&MM Week In Review
Niantic, Conn.--September 17, 2008--"The Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa has become the first Hyatt property to upgrade its energy-management system with the environmentally-friendly ecoMODE option from Inncom..."
[Rest of article here: http://www.hotelmotel.com/hotelmotel/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/5592... ]
Aloha, Brad