Can sustainable engineering techniques be effectively applied in the hospitality sector while maintaining a high level of service? Hotelier investigates the methods being used by the region’s hotels and their potential benefits

Providing the comfort, cleanliness and quality expected of the region’s top hotels is the primary role of the sector’s facilities management and engineering teams. Finding ways to do this more effectively and efficiently to meet growing cost and legislative pressures has become their biggest challenge.

Many are now looking towards sustainable engineering products and practices to ensure that comfortable temperatures, lighting and sufficient clean water are supplied, while the hotel design and service policies are maintained and waste is reduced. As awareness of sustainability grows and technology improves, so too has the number of products and services which are available locally. As a result, an increasingly diverse range of solutions are being used in Middle East hotels, from water saving devices to efficient lighting and recycling techniques.