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    • br Sustainability and hospitality design Hotels currently

    2018-10-22


    Sustainability and hospitality design Hotels currently represent 5 billion square feet of built environment, 5 million guest rooms, and over $4 billion USD per year in aa-dutp consumption in the United States alone. Although the total current number of LEED certified buildings in the United States amounts to over 24,000, the number of LEED certified hotel and resort buildings among these appears virtually nonexistent. As per the USGBC׳s last record in May 2015 and the time of this research, a total of only 121 hospitality projects had achieved LEED certification, all of them in the United States. Yet as a result of growing awareness, the hospitality industry is under greater pressure to conform to environmental initiatives from consumers, government regulations, and environmental organizations (US Department of Energy, 2007; Smerecnik and Andersen, 2011). Over 1100 new hotel designs have since been registered with LEED, yet still await certification.
    Methodology Extremely limited research currently exists on the implementation of sustainable design guidelines such as LEED. Even more limited is the research available on the topic of sustainable hospitality development. Literature on hospitality associated with LEED is virtually nonexistent. It is evident that little practical methodology has been developed in terms of sustainable hospitality design and what does exist is often seriously outdated. And yet, many professionals argue that this specific area of research is particularly important in terms of overall sustainable development (USGBC, 2009). With these limitations in mind, not every paper sourced for this research specifically measured the LEED design approach, but often proved valid in researching sustainable design primarily for tourism and hospitality development; likewise, not every paper specifically measured the tourism and hospitality industry, but offered insight into methods of measuring applications of LEED design and credit implementation in other areas of commercial building. Survey distribution, historical data collection, statistical analysis, case study analysis, and workshop coordination were all popular approaches found to have been undertaken in some form among the existing research. Survey distribution was found to be the most popular method of analysis undertaken for LEED-specific credit research as well as general sustainable hospitality design. This is likely explained by the lack of existing research, as surveys have been argued to be the best form of data gathering and produce the most indicative results in situations where technical data is not always available (Ko, 2005). In order to meet death rate particular objective of this research, the method of study determined to be most appopriate involved a combination of approaches. These were determined as historical data collection, statistical data analysis, and survey distribution, after an extensive literature review. The credit data was then statistically analyzed through average percentage calculations and placed into bar graphs to develop the best picture of credit rate adoption, Figure 1. Despite limitations in terms of statistical depth, average percentages were found to demonstrate the most appropriate results for the limited study sample. Figure 1 displays an example of the data graphed for each LEED category. By the end of the 12-week information gathering process, 28 scoresheets of the 38 projects were acquired with consent from designers across the United States, shown in Figure 2. This resulted in a response rate of 76%, an excellent value compared to rates experienced by previous study researchers (Da Silva, 2008; USGBC, 2009). The survey distribution then involved delivery of a survey via email to the same project managers responsible for scoresheet contribution for insight into the sustainable design objectives and decision rationales for credits implemented in each project. Project managers were requested to answer a short single-question survey in regard to the sustainable design of their projects. The question was presented as follows: