Jayakumar R Pillat
Technical director, Kempinski Hotel Mall of the Emirates
In addition to the many changes implemented at the hotel, technical director Jayakumar Pillai also offered guests an option to do their bit to add to the hotel’s sustainable practices. The hotel invested in Eco Smart systems with multiple energy saving modes to allow guests to pick high levels of energy saving.
“Through Eco Smart, we have a green button, where if a guest wants to have more savings, they can press that. Eco Smart is a system in the room — when the guest is not in the room, it adjusts the energy levels to a saving mode.
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Guests who are interested in higher savings can press the green button, which will save us more energy. It is above and beyond what the hotel has already set as its level,” explains Pillai.
The system’s inbuilt recovery technology is what makes the real difference, says Pillai. “Normally, when the guest goes out, there is a preset mode where the temperature increases by five degrees, whereas in this system, we have something called recovery technology. Depending on the temperature outside, it can go above five degrees and give us more savings. We are the only hotel in the region to have this system now,” he adds.
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