Our team at Cadiz Collaboration is getting very excited to head to Las Vegas for the Hospitality Design Expo 2013.

Hospitality Design 2013 Conference & Expo will take place between May 15 – 17, 2013 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center Las Vegas in Nevada.  Make sure to catch Lorraine at one of three events where she is going to reveal her secrets for creating a sustainable ROI for hoteliers.

Connect with Lorraine Francis at HD Expo – your VIP pass is below >>>

Earth-friendly Design Top of Mind

Lorraine Francis comments on the eco-friendly buzz happening in hospitality design for Hotel Business Design magazine.  You can read the article below.

Hotel Business DESIGN® Magazine is a bi-monthly publication takes a look at the business of design by providing the end-users the latest design practices, projects and trends throughout the industry.

Kachina and Thunderbird Lodge

Refreshed guest room at Kachina Lodge. Interior design by Lorraine Francis. Photo from Grand Canyon National Park Lodges.

When it comes to the Kachina and Thunderbird Lodge, it’s all about the views

Our  team at Cadiz Collaboration designed a contemporary guestroom that blended in with the immediate surroundings: the Grand Canyon.

Located on the rim of the Grand Canyon, half of the rooms at the Kachina Lodge have partial canyon views.  Part of the refurbishment of the two-queen bed/one-king guestrooms included new lounge chairs, side tables, upgrades to carpet, paint, window coverings, and lighting.  Refreshing existing furniture helped us align with our sustainability goals.

Our design team has been specifying wood flooring for our restaurants, guestroom entrances and suites. Creating sustainable flooring solutions for our customers has been easy with the abundance of great products on the market. We are especially excited about the availability of FSC certified engineered flooring and reclaimed teak wood.

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Engineered Wood

We used a DuChateau  product that creates warmth and is simple to maintainat Hanna’s Steakhouse in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.

Hannas Steakhouse, Monte Carlo Room with DuChateau flooring.

Teak Floor

Teak floor installation at Lavas, Sheraton Kauai Resort

Teak floor at Lava’s on Poipu Beach . Our design team incorporated the durable teak floor into our remodel project at  Sheraton Kauai Resort. Teak is resistance to water and has proven to be an excellent hardwood to use. Teak products are  FSC certified and organically grown, so you can be sure that no chemicals will leach into your environment.

The Sheraton Kauai RumFire restaurant at Poipu Beach

Cadiz Collaboration Starwood’s Phoenician Resort

Presidential Living Room by The Phoenician Scottsdale, via Flickr

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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

Discover ways hoteliers can catch up on lost sleep by taking advantage of federal and state tax incentives, rebates, and grants.  Although the thought of more paperwork, and the investment in time might seem like extra work, the added cost savings can add up quickly.

Lorraine points out a case study from Carol Hayward, National Project Executive at Energy Design Service Systems, demonstrating the power behind tax incentives and the potential savings a hotel can achieve.

Hayward and her firm consulted with a 85,000 square foot hotel in California and helped them get over $450,000 in combined grants, utility rebates, and tax deductions.

• $1.80 a square foot on the Federal tax deduction 179D
• .58 cents per square foot additional deduction from the State of California
• $1.78 a square foot utility rebates for lighting
• $100,000 grant

By the time federal and state tax deductions were applied, the hotel property yielded $4.16 a square foot plus the grant.

Lorraine further explains that hotel owners can generate significant tax savings by managing the facility’s depreciable assets using cost segregation.

To see the entire article and find out more ways to save, go to http://www.hotelinteractive.com/article.aspx?articleID=26664

Pictures of projects at Sheraton Kauai Resort, Starwood’s Phoenician Resort, Indian Wells Hotel, Sheraton’s Aji Spa and Schwab’s Restaurant.

Cadiz Collaboration provides architectural, interior  design and green consulting services. We work together with our clients to conceive, plan and execute distinguished projects. Designing successful hotels, spas and restaurants is our mission. Our projects create beauty, functionality and are profitable to our clients and their properties.

Our studio is committed to principles of sustainability in all aspects of our work, taking a leadership role in solving the challenges facing the architecture and design professions today. Our goal is to act from an informed perspective, crafting a balance of environmental concerns with great design and cost-effective means. At Cadiz Collaboration, sustainable design is a global vision. We believe our firm must take an active role in defining the evolution of a sustainable world while helping to create exceptional hospitality venues that are profitable for our clients and memorable for our guests.

The Phoenician is a 5.0-star hotel located in Scottsdale, AZ. Check out the article about the hospitality designs by Cadiz.

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

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