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Upgrades to hotel chain’s corporate home part of companywide green push
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Marriott International's 30-year-old headquarters in Bethesda, Md., has been awarded the gold medal for green buildings. After a three-year effort to retrofit the building with more sustainable and environmentally-friendly features and systems, it has achieved LEED-Existing Building Gold status from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Making its HQ more eco-friendly is part of Marriott's overall goal of expanding its green building portfolio to approximately 300 properties in five years. The company estimates the upgrades to its corporate home will save it up $700,000 annually, and also net it up to $1.3 million in expected tax credits over three years.
“We have a companywide initiative to create more sustainable and greener hotel operations, and so we wanted to lead by example at our corporate headquarters," said Jim Young, Marriott's senior director, corporate facilities. “We were able to reduce energy, water, and waste by collaborating with our 3,000 headquarters employees and like-minded strategic partners such as Philips, Kohler and Waste Management.”
Within its stable of brands, the company currently has 40 LEED hotels certified or registered under nine flags: Courtyard, Fairfield Inn, Residence Inn, SpringHill Suites, TownePlace Suites, Marriott, JW Marriott, Renaissance and Ritz-Carlton. Marriott said much of its green hotel expansion will be fueled by a new Courtyard hotel program that has filed for pre-certified LEED, making it faster, easier and less expensive for hotel owners. The new prototype is expected to save owners roughly $100,000, six months in design time and up to 25 percent energy and water savings.
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