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UNIT 4: ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
WATER AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION
Date Consumption Consumption Meter Comments
Costs Readings
Actual Targeted % Variance
Total
Examples of Good Practice
Environment performance monitoring at the Steigenberger Kurhaus, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands involves weekly and monthly reading of meters and checks
of water and energy use, and volumes of waste handed to contractors. Waste
contractors report twice a month on quantities of separated waste collected
and estimated percentage of waste recycled. The results are reported at staff
meetings.
The Taj Residency, Indore, India, has sub-metered all the different areas of the
hotel to allow for monitoring water, fuel and energy consumption, and effluent
and emissions output per department. Waste volumes of the entire property
are monitored collectively. Department heads evaluate costs and benefits every
three months.
At the Hotel Inter-Continental in Sydney, a detailed energy, water and waste
(including emissions) monitoring exercise is carried out every three months.
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