Successful Meetings - November 2008 - (Page 54) International > The Green Continent Meetings sonal products; by using “green” printers, computers, paint, and cleaning materials; with air-conditioning that monitors CO2 levels; and by capitalizing on the building’s original thick walls to save energy year-round. The hotel’s spokesperson Dr. Petra Engl-Wurzer points out, “By using water-saving modules in the fittings, the hotel saves four million liters of water a year— equivalent to 25,000 full baths. And V I E N N A’ S H O T E L The Hotel Imperial’s water-saving bathroom fittings with heat-recycling, we save the IMPERIAL equivalent annual heat consumption of some 10,000 Viennese The equally well organized folks at Vienna’s Hotel Imperial seem households.” to have bypassed the historic preservation problem and turned an older building green. The premises were transformed from a former residence of the Prince of Wurttemberg into a hotel for the SWISS HITS Universal Exhibition of 1873. This sumptuous 145-year-old buildSuch credentials are a virtual given in Switzerland, a country proud ing has again been converted for exhibition and meetings purposof being selected in a Yale University study as “the greenest es, this time to 21st-century standards. country in the world.” Do its conference venues rate as highly? The hotel started along its Imperial green path by using waste“Certainly,” asserts Remy Cregut, general manager of the burning power; by cooking only with disposable, local, and seaMontreux Music and Convention Center. “The environment is our percent of cooking oil is turned into biodiesel. In addition, fan and pump speeds have been curtailed by 20 percent, delivering a 50percent reduction in power consumption. O2 itself is surrounded by the UK’s first Low Emissions Zone that restricts vehicles of certain types and age, and bars all high-polluting ones. concorde-hotels.com/meetings Event planning at your fingertips. Dream, visualize, plan, simplify, relax Go to concorde-hotels.com/meetings and offer yourself the luxury of a dedicated event-planning platform. A user-friendly, time-saving web site A tool that simplifies the planning of customized events Concorde Management Compagny, SAS RCS Nanterre 493 203 897 A team of experts ready to help you at (1) 800 261 73 83* *Toll-free number from a landline phone. http://www.concorde-hotels.com/meetings http://www.concorde-hotels.com/meetings http://www.concorde-hotels.com
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