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Hospitality Design

This document discusses green business practices in the hospitality industry in Sri Lanka. It provides examples from Heritance Kandalama hotel. Some key points: 1) Heritance Kandalama is a unique model for green business - it was built to minimize environmental impact and has received several certifications for sustainable practices. 2) The hotel uses eco-friendly designs like being built on columns to avoid disturbing local ecosystems, utilizing natural light and ventilation over air conditioning. 3) It has implemented energy and water conservation measures like a gasifier system for fuel and does not draw or discharge water from the nearby tank. 4) Through sustainable practices, the hotel has seen significant cost savings while reducing its environmental footprint

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Hospitality Design

This document discusses green business practices in the hospitality industry in Sri Lanka. It provides examples from Heritance Kandalama hotel. Some key points: 1) Heritance Kandalama is a unique model for green business - it was built to minimize environmental impact and has received several certifications for sustainable practices. 2) The hotel uses eco-friendly designs like being built on columns to avoid disturbing local ecosystems, utilizing natural light and ventilation over air conditioning. 3) It has implemented energy and water conservation measures like a gasifier system for fuel and does not draw or discharge water from the nearby tank. 4) Through sustainable practices, the hotel has seen significant cost savings while reducing its environmental footprint

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Greening the Service Sector

Dilshan G.M.David
Executive – Sustainability &
Case studies from
Environmental Management Sri Lanka
B.Sc (Natural Sciences)
Reading - M.Sc (Environmental Management) Hospitality Industry
President’s Medal Winner-Environmental Pioneer.
ISO 9001:2008 Auditor
ISO 22000:2005 Auditor 1
Supervising Food Safety in Catering Level 3 CIEH/UK
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Importance of Green Business for


hospitality industry in Sri Lanka
 Wise use of Natural Resources.
 Natural beauty and rich biodiversity.
 Importance of Local communities and their
wellbeing.
 Richness and the diversity of culture and
traditions.
 Sri Lanka posses many world heritage sites.
 Hospitality is becoming a Core Business.
 Will be a success story in the future.
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Tools used to address Green Business


 5S, 7S, Productivity and Waste Management
 Water Resource Management, Chemicals, Paper and
Other resources – ISO 14001, Cleaner production
 Energy Resource Management – ISO 50001
 Food Safety Management – HACCP/ISO 22000
 Occupational Health & Safety Management – OHSAS
18001
 CSR
 Training and Development
 Other certifications in place – Green Globe, Earth Check,
Travelife, Switch Asia, National Awards – National Green
Award, National Energy award, National HRM award
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Green Design
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Heritance Kandalama
Dambulla, Sri Lanka
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Some of the key features to recognize Heritance Kandalama


as a unique model for green business
 Once a controversial hotel project became a green business
through public pressure and change of thinking of the
management.
 No water up take from the Kandalama tank and no waste
water discharge to the tank
 First Hotel project in Sri Lanka went through the EIA process
 Unique master piece of Sir Geoffrey Bawa
 Eco design built in 1994
 US LEED bronze certification
 First hotel in south Asia to win Green Globe standard
 The first hotel to have ISO 14001 certification
 .
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Building on columns

Let the ecosystems to be as it is


No storm water management. Natural
flow of rain water is still remaining.
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Natural light through Sky Lights


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Open Space
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Natural ventilation vs Air conditioning


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243 acres of Forest extent – only 8 acres for the building

 Balance forest cover is maintained as a conservation forest.


 Acquired by Aitken Spence PLC having a business objective. To avoid other
hotel projects to appear in the vicinity.
 But it has many other advantages over greening the business process which
needs holistic thinking
 Biodiversity assessment is proposed to identify the significance of the forest
area
 Based on the results, proposed to declare as a privately owned conservation
forest in the future.
 Additional opportunities for carbon trading after doing an analysis of carbon
sequestration study.
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Awards won by the hotel

 Although by wining all these, there are many improvements to be


considered for continual improvements and ensure sustainability.
 Investing with a narrow thinking for the future opportunities to a
great extent towards greening the business process.
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Energy Management
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Gasifire – Heritance Kandalama


 Installed in 2000
 Installation cost LKR14
million.
 Recovered in 2.5 years.
 Gross profit up to date
LKR 35.8 million.
 Total CO2 emission saving
is 1600 tons.
 50% reduction in Boiler
Diesel Consumption.
 Livelihood for Local
community.
 70% efficiency of biomass
burning.
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Case study - Potential electricity saving through


lighting

Total units for existing lighting system - 215 kWh


Total units for the proposed lighting system - 38 kWh

total electricity saving per day 177.7 kWh

total eletricity saving per month 5331kWh

cost per 1 kWh (Rs.) 21.00

saving potential per month (Rs.) LKR 111,951.00

saving potential per year (Rs.) LKR 1,343,412.00


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