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The present thesis concerns the potential and limitations of energy saving at the hotel sector. Hotel buildings are unique compared to other public, commercial buildings due to their varying size, their sheer number as well as their facilities and operating schedules. Every hotel needs to fulfill a number of criteria and adopt a certain “ifs” and “ands” in order to satisfy the demands of its users. Two of the important criteria emerging over the last decade refer to their environmental performance and energy efficiency. With a view to study the hotel’s energy and environmental performance, a top?down and a bottom?up analysis have been carried out. In a bottom – up approach, data related to the energy and environmental performance of buildings were gathered within a frame of a field study, along with information related to occupancy levels, indoor environmental quality and management procedures. The results of this study, and also of similar studies carried out and published over the la ...
The present thesis concerns the potential and limitations of energy saving at the hotel sector. Hotel buildings are unique compared to other public, commercial buildings due to their varying size, their sheer number as well as their facilities and operating schedules. Every hotel needs to fulfill a number of criteria and adopt a certain “ifs” and “ands” in order to satisfy the demands of its users. Two of the important criteria emerging over the last decade refer to their environmental performance and energy efficiency. With a view to study the hotel’s energy and environmental performance, a top?down and a bottom?up analysis have been carried out. In a bottom – up approach, data related to the energy and environmental performance of buildings were gathered within a frame of a field study, along with information related to occupancy levels, indoor environmental quality and management procedures. The results of this study, and also of similar studies carried out and published over the last years; provide interesting in depth insights to the energy and environmental performance of specific hotels, or fairly limited groups of hotel buildings. At the same time, and in a top – down approach, data were obtained from the Hellenic National Statistical Service, as well as from the Greek Tourism Organization and Hotel Chambers. These data provide a reliable background in order to elaborate statistically reasonable mean and median values for the energy performance of various hotel groups. By combining the aforementioned data, the idea of a “typical” hotel derived. This was attempted by means of a control of the parameters determining the buildings’ energy performance, of the groups’ main features and of the statistical control of the variation, deviation and robustness of the data examined. Three typical hotels were created and simulated in order to study their energy performance for the elaboration of a master plan for the implementation of an energy renovation strategy.
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