The New York Marriott Downtown has recently joined the ranks of the sustainable movement by installing a rooftop microturbine farm to help with energy consumption.
The 500-room facility expects the microturbines to offset close to 6,000 megawatt hours of electricity annually, as well as cut down on approximately 1,700 tons of carbon dioxide emissions and 10 tons of nitrogen oxides.
Additionally, the Marriott Corporation has committed to cutting its entire portfolio's carbon footprint and energy consumption 25 percent by 2017.
As far as Manhattan is concerned, green buildings are becoming the norm, as more and more developers recognize that this is the kind of thinking that is now and will possibly forever be demanded of them. New commercial projects such as One Bryant Plaza/Bank of America Tower, Eleven Times Square, and Twenty Times Square are evidence of this, not to mention the existing Four Times Square, Seven World Trade Center, and The New York Times Building. It's not news that many residential projects have also gone this way, including The Visionaire, The Lucida, and The Harrison, to name just a few.
However, the fact that the hospitality industry is making such a concerted effort by taking such measures as adding microturbines to its building plans is quite amazing. When you think of it, the only energy-conserving effort many hotels have made in the past was to ask guests to reuse towels.
Marriot's action represents quite a shift.
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