Environmental certifications in hotels, Ecopenta the european leader

Sustainability is a value increasingly requested by hotel users when they choose between the different possibilities offered by the hotels of the place. For this reason, hotel chains are increasingly betting on investing in improving the sustainability of their facilities.

The environmental certifications are voluntary certifications, granted by an independent entity, that guarantee that the building has been designed and constructed using strategies to improve its behavior in all the essential environmental vectors:

• Energy saving
• Water efficiency
• Reduction of CO2 emissions
• Improvement of indoor air quality
• Management of resources and sensitivity for their impacts

The environmental certifications are desired by the fact of guaranteeing this sustainability and by having a powerful marketing capacity.

In Europe the 3 most requested environmental certifications are:

LEED Certification: It was born in America, it is the best known worldwide

BREEAM Certification: It was born in England, it is the oldest of all and the most performed in Europe

Certification DGNB: It was born in Germany, is the so-called third generation environmental certification, the most advanced of all. 

Ecopenta is a reference in the sector of building environmental certifications, especially in the hotel sector, where it is the only company in Europe that has developed or is developing the 3 main environmental certifications in hotels:

• Hotel The Serras: Hotel finished on the 2015, with  2,200 m2 located in Barcelona, ​​certified LEED certified
• Hotel Motel One: Hotel under construction with 10,313 m2 located in Barcelona, ​​certified in the BREEAM design phase Very Good ***
• Hotel Robinson Jandia Playa: Hotel under construction of 12,631 m2 located in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), certified in the design phase DGNB Platinum