• Seminar Date:                March 20, 2013 aT 12 Noon PST / 3 PM EST
  
• Co-Host:                          Mark Slymen, Director of Sustainability for Montage Hotels & Resorts
• Topic:                               Successful Green Team and Community Outreach

Overview

Our thought leader is Mark Slymen with the Montage Hotels & Resorts. Mr. Slymen oversees all sustainable development and operational practices for the hotel group.This includes existing properties in Laguna Beach and Beverly Hills and those under development in Deer Valley, Utah and Los Cabos, Mexico.

He began his career in the hospitality industry in the family owned and operated Aliso Creek Inn & Golf Course in Laguna Beach. Prior to the Montage purchase of Aliso Creek Inn & Golf Course in 2004, Mr. Slymen was the golf course manager and superintendent, and assisted in accounting and information technology support. In 2006, his focus shifted towards development and entitlement support. In this role he developed additional knowledge and interest in sustainability and obtained LEED accreditation. Mr. Slymen helped oversee the LEED process for Montage Beverly Hills, resulting in a “Gold” level certification awarded by the USGBC in April 2009.

Mr. Slymen plays an active role in the Environmental Impact Committee at both Montage Laguna Beach and Montage Beverly Hills. He is also involved in many organizations including the Hospitality Adaptations Working Group for the national chapter of the USGBC, the Hospitality Committee for the Orange County Chapter of the USGBC and serves on the Board of Directors for the Ocean Institute.

Summary of questions

1. Can you describe how the Montage views the topic of sustainability and how that relates to operations and the guest experience?
2.  What do you see are the leading edge technologies for your hotel properties regarding sustainability?
3.  How does the Montage measure success?
4.  How do you motivate your associates and the community to participate in your sustainability practices?
5.  How does your sustainability plan differ by property? Are their similarities or differences when determining what makes the most sense for your brand?
6.  Do you have any Hotel Case studies you would like to share with our audience? Some that are working well and even sharing others that
7.  The Million Dollar Question:  Can you name a reason why creating a sustainable hotels does NOT cost more and will actually create savings, be more profitable and create better brand loyalty?

Hotels+Green hospitality seminar with Lorraine Francis from Cadiz Collaboration discusses Innovations in Energy Management  for hotels with Cliff Frana from Evolve.

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January 23, 2013 -  12 Noon PST/3PM EST -

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About Evolve

Evolve offers lighting and automation controllers that can take in-room control and energy efficiency to the next level. Each controller’s buttons and LCD displays are fully programmable, allowing for multiple functions and scenes. Uses include the ability to control each section of a room’s lighting levels and on/off status, adjust temperature, operate motorized draperies, activate mood lighting, call for housekeeping/do not disturb, and of course, set the room’s lights, TV, and HVAC into energy saving modes.

The customization doesn’t stop at the programming level, as each controller can be wall mounted or placed on a tabletop. The options and settings can be personalized in terms of external color, language, font, backlight brightness and color, and button perimeter lighting level and color.

Like all their devices, controls  can be  retrofitted for  any room.

Any of the Director Series controllers can be integrated with our standard energy management systems and EvolveNet to create a building with unmatched energy efficiency, in-room control, and back-office monitoring and awareness. The incorporation of these three systems creates the most limitless, comprehensive, and user-friendly energy management solution in existence today.

Meet our Hotels+Green guest

Cliff Frana, Evolve Technologies

Cliff Frana officially joined Evolve in April 2011 to become their National Sales Manager. His primary focus is creating corporate brand acceptance as well as engaging management and ownership groups.  Cliff has I been involved in hospitality sales for 5-years, beginning with a regional hospitality drapery company based in Knoxville, TN, where he currently resides.

Hotels+Green hospitality seminar with Lorraine Francis from Cadiz Collaboration discusses Lighting Design-Trends in LED with Brian Hahnlen from  Glumac.

Lighting fixture at Phoenician Resort ballroom pre-function space.

Join Lorraine Francis and guest Brian Hahnlen, Senior Lighting Designer at Glumac discuss trends in lighting design on November 28, 2012.  Sign up now – for November Session of Hotels+Green

Brian has over 10 years of award winning lighting design experience. He’s taught lighting at the graduate level and is skilled in educating and collaborating with architectural firms and owners. His experience developing aes­thetically appropriate, energy efficient illumination systems span a variety of projects ranging from hospitality, commercial, cultural, entertain­ment, theatrical, retail, academic, sports venue, healthcare to luminaire manufacturing and controls integration. He is an expert at daylight design as well as manipulating light to complement the architectural vision for any space. Brian has a passion for creating utilizing light as his preferred medium.

Find our how hoteliers can get started with integrating technology with design for architectural lighting applications.

During the free Hotels+Green seminar you will learn:

• How hoteliers can benefit from new lighting trends without sacrificing lighting quality
• LED besics: life span of bulbs, cost of bulbs, dimming challenges
• Tips to approach LED’s from a retrofit vs. new construction perspective
• What the best ways are to benchmark LED savings
• Examples of success stories from a recent hotel case study

Join HOTELS+GREEN 44 host Lorraine Francis and guest thought-leader Joel Southall discuss hospitality trends.

When: September 19, 2012

Where: HOTELS+GREEN 44 Teleseminar Series call-in line

Joel Southall,  Director of Sustainability for Xanterra South Rim of the Grand Canyon shares his experiences of working at Xanterra and what the hotel is doing to promote sustainable practices within hospitality.

Some of Joe’s accomplishments include the completion of the installation of a one-megawatt solar facility and helping retain ISO 14001 certification during five annual audits and then one recognition for environmental accomplishment such as the Department of Interiors and National Parks Service Environmental Achievement Award in 2008 and 2011 and the GreenGov Award from the Executive Office of the President in 2011.

Sneak peak at some of the questions

• How much feedback do you get from your visitors regarding sustainability?
• How does your property incorporate customer outreach efforts into your operations?
• How does your property partner with the community?

Audio by: Lorraine Francis, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Project Design Principal Cadiz Collaboration

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2013

Lorraine Francis reports live from HD Expo in Vegas sharing with the Hotels+Green 44 audience top trends in sustainability from the expo.

This 44-minute conversation is about innovation and learning about how cutting edge creativity is leading the way in sustainability.

Recorded live from HD Expo

Make sure to download the recorded audio from the hospitality seminar that Lorraine Francis conducted from Hospitality Design Expo at the Sands Casino in Las Vegas,  which is produced by Hospitality Design magazine.

Discover what is  happening in hospitality from the conversations Lorraine had with people she talked to in regards to what’s happening with hotel owners, operators, and manufacturers.

Listen to Lorraine’s report about  what different properties are doing and find out where people are  putting their money with regards to hospitality and sustainability.

Find out what conversations about sustainability are taking place in order to make hotel  properties more profitable.

If you would like to hear the entire HOTELS+GREEN 44 audio recordings, let us know. Click here to get a link to our HOTELS+GREEN audio library.

Energy Tax Incentives – 6 questions to ask Carol Hayward from Energy Design Service Systems about energy trends and tax incentives.

Renewable Energy and Tax Incentives – Guest speaker Carol Hayward from Energy Design Service Systems (EDSS) helps facilitate a conversation about trending topics in renewable energy and tax incentives.

Energy Costs: it’s is a big drain on resources

We took a survey a few months ago with some of our hotel owners, operator and engineers and energy cost was on top of the list for what is keeping them up at night…so your expertise can really assist our audience for what they can do today to start saving and how to be creative.

Top 6 Questions about Energy and Tax Incentives

1. What type of federal tax incentives are available for hoteliers who are renovating or building a new hotel in the U.S today?
2. There has been a lot of buzz around solar and wind renewable energy over the years, but many question the efficiency of those systems. Can you comment about some of the new technologies in this arena and how with the right  tax incentives these technologies start to make sense?
3. Besides federal tax incentives, what other programs can a hotel owner achieve through state, local and utility incentives and rebates?
4. How can a hotel owner maximize the return on investment in a shorter period with incentives?
5. Can tax incentives play an important part of tax planning going forward or are there opportunities to go back to missed opportunities?
6. What type of analysis and costs associated with these tax studies and how long does it take to get the incentives?

If you would like to hear the entire HOTELS+GREEN 44 audio recordings, let us know. Click here to get a link to our HOTELS+GREEN audio library.

Rating Systems – Reflections on the LEED and Other Emerging Measurement Systems and their impact on hotels in the future.

Join guest thought leader JoAnna Abrams, founder and Chief Executive Officer of MindClick SGM discuss trending topics about rating hospitality performance.