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Denmark: Crowne Plaza (Copenhagen)
Hotel Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers is one of the
world’s leading sustainability hotels and is awarded with
Green Key.
The hotel opened on 16 November 2009 as Denmark’s
first CO2-neutral hotel and with the Nordic region’s
largest solar cell system integrated into the south
facade. It is part of the Copenhagen Towers project.
At the beginning of 2014, Crowne Plaza Copenhagen
Towers merged with the Bella Center Group, currently
BC Hospitality Group.The hotel attracts many students,
business tourist and journalist that is interested in the
sustainable hotel.
Everything in the hotel - from the custom-made Danish design furniture to Danish organic cuisine and the
hotel’s energy consumption - not only gives the environment, but also the guest a priority. So guests can
enjoy fully their 4-star stay with green conscience.
Belgium: restaurant Den Hoorn (Kapelle-op-den-Bos)
Yves De Sloovere, manager at Den Hoorn, started
investing in energy efficiency using a monitoring system
and the services of a consultancy specialised in energy.
With the collected data and the advice of the expert Yves
De Sloovere implemented different energy efficiency
measures:
• A complete switch to LED-lighting inside and outside
the building, resulting in 20% energy reduction.
• A change over from cooking with gas to induction,
resulting in 25% energy reduction and lessmaintenance
and cleaning.
• A central flow regulated cooling systemwith a cooling
compressor with frequency control that resulted in
30% energy reduction.
In the future, other actions are foreseen to further raise
energy efficiency and generate energy savings, such as
the optimization of the heating and hot water system or
the installation of super isolated windows.
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