Hôtel du Vieux Québec is committed to the implementation of proactive measures to
help protect and sustain our natural environment. It is our policy to maintain a
culture of environmental responsibility that includes ensuring a safe and healthy
social and physical environment. This culture extends throughout the hotel
organization and between the hotel and our guests, suppliers and local community.
In delivering our commitment we will:
- Comply with and go beyond meeting existing environmental legislation and
take a proactive approach to future requirements and obligations.
- Seek to conserve natural resources through the responsible use of energy,
water and materials.
- Qualify and quantify the environmental impacts of each department and offset
the hotel’s total carbon ‘footprint’ (green house gas emissions) on a by-monthly basis through the purchase of Gold Standard carbon offsets.
- Maintain an environmental team and team champion who will oversee a
continual cycle of planning, implementing, reviewing and improving on the
processes and actions that we undertake to meet our environmental goals.
- Measure performance and set objectives that will be regularly revisited with
the aim of continual improvement by reducing, re-using and recycling in areas
such as: Water and energy consumption and waste materials produced.
- Give preference to suppliers who have compatible policies for managing their
impact on the environment. Source products that have least possible
environmental impact in their creation, delivery, use and disposal.
- Be an active and supportive member of our local, provincial, national and
global communities.
- Ensure that our employees work in an environmentally responsible manner.
Our future plans:
We are currently in the planning stage for these projects for 2010.
- Installation of vacuum tube solar hot water panels to offset our grid energy
consumption.
- Expansion of our rooftop garden to include ‘green walls’.
- Install a key card control system installed in every room to control heating,
lighting and air-conditioning when room is not in use.
- Install a building management system that will control temperature throughout
the building.
- Applying for LEED certification for Existing Buildings.
- Producing a short film on the benefits of ‘going green’. This will be filmed
using stereoscopic (3D) and time-lapse photography cinematography
techniques which we hope will help spread the good word.
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