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Boston Green Tourism
...advancing the green hotel movement
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Dear Boston Green Tourism Members,
I thank our hosts: Joe Riordan and Debbie Freckleton.
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I hope you can come!
Dan
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Joe Riordan
, Director of Engineering at The Langham, Boston
Debbie Freckleton
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Director of Quality, Learning, and Development at The Langham Boston
Mr. Riordan and Ms. Freckleton will discuss recent green achievements and upcoming green projects at their property.
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Mr. Delano will show us how hotels can expand their use of Direct Digital Controls (DDC) to improve their building controls, automate more processes and improve problem identification. Hotels that excel in these areas improve comfort and reduce their energy bills.
Automated Building Systems has installed and maintains the HVAC controls for The Langham, Boston, Hyatt Regency Boston, Boston Marriott Copley Place and many other properties.
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Mr. Qvarnstrom will discuss the Belimo Energy Valve, which improves chiller system efficiency by continuously optimizing the water flow, automatically adjusting it to current climatic conditions and eliminating the Delta-T syndrome (the difference between return and supply chilled water temperatur
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The Belimo Energy Valve has been installed at many Boston area locations, including MIT (which partnered with Belimo on the product's design and commissioning), Hyatt Regency Boston, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Emerson College.
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Dan Ruben, Director, Boston Green Tourism 
I will show how U.S. hotels reduce their purchasing volume, thereby saving money, reducing waste and benefiting the environment.
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Innovative Plate Scraping Product Saves Restaurants Water, Energy and Money
Most restaurants clean off dirty dishes with a pre-rinse spray valve before placing them in the dishwasher. In recent years, these devices have become much m efficient. But now there's a product that saves even more water and energy.
It's called PlateScrape. I learned about it in the Green Restaurant Association newsletter.
Restaurants that use the PlateScrape tool use only 4.5 gallons of water to scrape 600 dishes. Their kitchen staff process dishes faster, too.
I encourage you to see the PlateScrape videos on their website.
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RecyclingWorks Massachusetts
Has your hotel ever had its trash rejected because it contained too many waste ban items?
This document provides commonsense advice about recycling the commodities that most often wind up in the trash and cause loads to be rejected: cardboard, bottle, cans and food waste.
More information about the MA waste bans is here.
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Glenn Hasek, Green Lodging News, June 26
This article summarizes the energy and water efficiency innovations that companies presented at the HITEC trade show, which took place in Houston in June.
Much of the article was devoted to guestroom energy management system upgrades by INNCOM, Telkonet, Evolve Controls, etc.; other smart building control systems; and management information systems.
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The following meeting will be 2:30 to 4:00.
| October 11 |
The Langham, Boston |
| December 6 |
Sheraton Boston |
See you Thursday at The Langham, Boston
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