Last year Marriott announced it planned to green its buildingportfolio of 300 properties over the next five years. It has alreadyposted LEED certification for 40 hotels across nine MarriottInternational brands--Courtyard, Fairfield Inn, Residence Inn,SpringHill Suites, TownePlace Suites, Marriott, JW Marriott,Renaissance and Ritz-Carlton. It has also established a new Courtyardhotel program that allows hotel owners to tap a pre-certified LEEDprocess. Savings expected under this program are roughly $100,000, sixmonths in design time and up to 25% of energy and water costs.
Savings at the headquarters also included an increase in the therecycling rate to 69% in 2009 and more than $100,000 in electricityrebates through participation in the Demand Response energy reductionprogram.
There are few Gold LEED certified hotels in the DC area. One of these is, not surprisingly, a 226-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel inChevy Chase, MD. It received its Gold designation last year after theowner, Grosvenor Americas, completed a $35-million renovation andrebranding of the original 39-year-old building.
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Erika Morphy
Erika Morphy has been writing about commercial real estate at GlobeSt.com for more than ten years, covering the capital markets, the Mid-Atlantic region and national topics. She's a nerd so favorite examples of the former include accounting standards, Basel III and what Congress is brewing.
