Williamsburg Hospitality House

Williamsburg Hospitality House 415 Richmond Road Williamsburg, VA 23185-3536 757-229-4020 www.williamsburghosphouse.com Case Study

• Water/Energy Efficiency: low flow restrictors (high pressure), low flow toilets, dishwashers that re-circulate, maintenance of drips/leaks; efficient HVAC-natural gas, insulation, building orientation, directional lighting, sensors
  
• Landscaping: integrated pest management, organic fertilizers and efficiently timed applications, abundance of indoor plants
  
• Rooms: optional laundry service, glasses/mugs versus disposables, efficient HVAC-individual thermostats, optional free newspapers
  
• Meeting Rooms/Dining: glass, silver, cloth napkins, food inventory management-effective bulk purchasing, less toxic cleaners, grease recycling
  
• Office: purchase of materials with recycled content, energy-efficient equipment (TV's/refrigerators/hair-dryers/irons/vehicles, extensive use of electronic documents/records, utilizing purchasing power to prescribe minimized packaging wastes (shrink-wrapping, excessive packaging; or requirement that vendors take back packaging
  
• Laundry: water efficient washers (reuse of filter wash water, energy efficient dryers, environmentally-friendly detergents, linen segregation (gentle cycle for lightly soiled
  
• Maintenance: preventative maintenance of vehicles/equipment, fuel-efficient vehicles, last-in/first-out inventory, eliminating use of aerosols, recycling of vehicle fluids, less toxic materials, aqueous parts cleaners, use of latex paints, minimizing use of HVAC/cooling tower chemical through magnetic or ionic-flux mechanisms, reusing cooling tower waters as much as possible, effective systems of storage, labeling, handling, policy to use "dry" clean-up methods (versus using spray water), recycling scrap metal (filters) and cardboard
  
• Sustainability: carpets with recycling content and no-VOC's (volatile organic compounds), reused building materials