Hyatt Regency Downtown Denver Hotel Implements Innovative Environmental Sustainability Efforts, with Help from Staff and Guests

Hyatt Regency Denver Seeking to Become Colorado's First Hotel with Green Seal Certification

Denver, CO -- Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center has started to apparatus a absolute sustainability program, advised to abbreviate the hotel's all-embracing carbon brand and abatement its ecology impact. Global Hyatt Corporation is committed to ecology responsibility, and this forward-thinking city Denver hotel strives to advance the way with acceptable ecology initiatives that will accept a abiding appulse on the community.

"Sparked by the affection of our agents and our customers, and Hyatt's admiration to be a allotment of the solution, we acquainted accountable to advance and apparatus abiding sustainability programs that would accept lasting, absolute results," commented John Schafer, accepted administrator of Hyatt Regency Denver hotel. "Living in Colorado and alive up to one of the a lot of arresting angle every day is a connected admonition of our affiliation to the accustomed world. At Hyatt, we ambition to be proactive baton aural our industry to ensure that we are authoritative acceptable choices with absolute impacts for approaching generations."

Hyatt's affairs focuses on baptize savings, activity savings, decay reduction/recycling, and agents ecology education. These areas of accent mark Hyatt's charge to 18-carat administration and aggregate responsibility, and abutment Global Hyatt's ecology efforts accepting implemented about the world:

Sparked by the affection of our agents and our customers, and Hyatt's admiration to be a allotment of the solution, we acquainted accountable to advance and apparatus abiding sustainability programs that would accept lasting, absolute results Living in Colorado and alive up to one of the a lot of arresting angle every day is a connected admonition of our affiliation to the accustomed world. At Hyatt, we ambition to be proactive baton aural our industry to ensure that we are authoritative acceptable choices with absolute impacts for approaching generations. science-based ecology acceptance standards that are credible, transparent, and capital in an added accomplished and aggressive marketplace. Water Conservation at this Eco-Friendly Downtown Denver Hotel
 

Designed with guestroom low breeze pluming accessories including toilets (1.4 gallon tanks), faucets (rated 1.5 gallons per minute), and showerheads (rated 2.5 gallons per minute); Converted automated duke sinks and urinals in accessible restrooms to low breeze units; Implemented a climate-appropriate mural architecture with a baptize able irrigation system; Established action that housekeeping alone changes bed linens at the appeal of the chump and if apartment are anew occupied; and Serve baptize by appeal alone in banquets.
In 2007, the accepted Denver auberge had an anniversary burning of 45 actor gallons of water, and after these implemented features, would acceptable accept apparent an access of 10 percent of the anniversary baptize consumption.

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of this Well-Known Denver Hotel Landmark
 

Installed a hydronic bowl cooling arrangement that utilizes alfresco air to air-conditioned the auberge if temperature variations allow; Converted 95 percent of the hotel's ablaze bulbs to activity extenuative beaming bulbs; Reclamation of calefaction from laundry decay baptize to preheat admission algid water; and Whenever possible, chefs use locally developed produce.
Based on the use of bunched florescent as against to beaming ablaze bulbs in the 1,100 guestrooms, the auberge has accomplished a accumulation of 1,171,207.62 Kwh per year, which reflects a 6.5% accumulation in anniversary consumption.

Reducing Landfill Waste and Recycling at this Green Downtown Denver Hotel
 

Placed bi-weekly racks on anniversary bedfellow attic as against to alone allowance delivery; First Denver auberge to use a Waste Management individual beck recycling compactor; Placed recycling bins in all bedfellow apartment (1,100), and placed bike trash/recycling bins with advisory signage in all accessible areas; Implemented a recycling affairs and bike trash/recycling bins for agents and restaurant; and Converted "to-go" containers to biodegradable containers.
As a result, Hyatt Regency Denver has bargain an estimated 25 percent of its landfill waste, and continues to adviser its business practices for avenues for added decay abridgement methods.

Staff Education at this Environmentally Conscious Denver Hotel
Additionally, Hyatt has invested assets into creating a ability of ecology acquaintance and apprenticeship of its agents by creating an breath Green Committee of advisers from assorted operations and controlling departments. The board of individuals serve as ecology ambassadors - accouterment leadership, active change, and accretion acquaintance on assorted ecology issues aural the abode and beyond. Not alone does the Hyatt Green Committee advance and apparatus change initiatives at work, but anniversary affiliate looks for means to brainwash adolescent associates. For example, in anniversary of Earth Week 2008, the board provided beaming ablaze bulbs and ecology educational advice to advisers for their use at home. Hyatt has aswell hosted centralized affairs accurately to brainwash agents on the hotel's sustainability efforts; brought in industry experts, such as Waste Management, for centralized trainings; and provided environmental, educational and abstruse abstracts in several languages such as Spanish and Russian.

Hyatt has already apparent absolute after-effects from all of its initiatives, and affairs to administer for a "Green Seal Certification" by the end of 2008. Green Seal is a civic non-profit that has developed "science-based ecology acceptance standards that are credible, transparent, and capital in an added accomplished and aggressive marketplace." If successful, Hyatt Regency Denver is on clue to acceptable the aboriginal Green Seal-certified auberge in Colorado.

For advice on Hyatt Regency Denver, appointment http://denverregency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp and for added advice on the Green Seal Certification, appointment http://www.greenseal.org.

About Global Hyatt Corporation
Global Hyatt Corporation, one of the world's arch auberge companies, offers today's travelers added than 730 hotels and resorts (more than 136,000 rooms) in 45 countries. The company's affiliates own, operate, administer and authorization Hyatt-branded hotels and resorts beneath Park Hyatt™, Grand Hyatt™, Hyatt Regency™, Hyatt Resorts™, Hyatt®, Hyatt Place® and Hyatt Summerfield Suites® brands. In April 2007, Hyatt launched its newest all-around brand, Andaz™. Global Hyatt Corporation is aswell the buyer of Hyatt Vacation Ownership, Inc. abettor of Hyatt Vacation Club and apportioned residential backdrop and U.S. Franchise Systems, Inc, which franchises Hawthorn Suites and Microtel Inns and Suites. From the U.S. and Canada, anxiety for any Hyatt auberge common may be acquired by calling 1-800-233-1234, or logging on to http://www.hyatt.com.