[fusion_text] Hotel Photometric Studies: Smart Lighting to Maximize Your Hotel Environment In out last newsletter, we discussed LED lighting as a popular energy saving component for hoteliers. Today I expand on how lighting design impacts the overall look and feel of a hotel. City officials often require hoteliers to show proposed exterior project lighting in […]

[fusion_text] LED Lighting:  Cost-Savings Every Month As we discussed in our last newsletter, we strive to bring energy efficient designs to our clients. We want designs that are not only environmentally friendly, but also beneficial to the bottom line of a project. A popular energy-saving component is LED lighting.     Over the last few […]

[fusion_text] Hoteliers Benefit from No-Cost Cooling! After receiving some great questions from our last newsletter, I wanted to dive into another energy-efficient hotel design solution, one that is often overlooked. This solution involves utilizing your hotel’s dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS) for no-cost cooling. A DOAS is a unit typically mounted on a hotel roof […]

[fusion_text] Cool Roofs – Saving Hoteliers Energy Costs! Hoteliers in warm and sunny climate zones often face the challenge of high monthly cooling expenses. After publishing a series on energy efficient hotel solutions, I received some questions about how a cool roof could be used in a hotel application. Cool roofs are a roofing that […]

[fusion_text] Efficient Hotel Design to Save on Monthly Utility Costs With construction costs on the rise, most developers are looking for ways to cut both upfront and operational costs. One way to drive down operational costs is to design a hotel as energy efficient as possible. While we see very few developers pursuing “formal” sustainable […]

[fusion_text] Hotel Shadow Studies Bring Added Value To Hotel Projects Hotel developers do not want to enter their first summer season and realize their hotel pool sits in the shadow 90% of the day! Architectural shadow studies early in the design process will help you avoid this, as well as other costly design mistakes. See below […]

[fusion_text] What are the most popular brands and where are they being built? According to a recent Lodging Econometrics report, the world hotel construction market is growing 8% year over year. The U.S market has played a big role in this growth. Here are the top 5 cities in the U.S. with the highest hotel […]

[fusion_text] Developers Considering Dual Branding for New Projects In recent years, dual-branding has become a popular trend with increased interest among both business and leisure travelers. Dual-branded hotels, also known as “Two-in-One” hotels or “Two-Pack” hotels, are simply single structure hotels housing two separate hotel flags typically under the same brand umbrella.  Our team is […]

[fusion_text] Evaluate Your Construction Options To Reduce Project Costs I received some great feedback from our readers on our recent Rising Lumber Costs newsletter. We had lots of intriguing questions and wanted to continue this dialogue by sharing some similar information about pricing trends for CMU (Block) and Hollow Core Plank construction. I’d like to […]

[fusion_text] Hotel Developers Facing Rising Lumber Prices One area we find ourselves discussing often is the rising cost of hotel construction. Our last newsletter  highlighted hotel construction type trends as well as general increases in material prices across the US. Today we’ll expand on this and look specifically at how the rising cost of lumber has […]