Four Seasons Environmental, Inc.

Update: HEI La Jolla Sees Opportunities to Increase Efficiency, Continue Quality

In February, Four Seasons Environmental, Inc. brought you a story about HEI Hotels & Resorts' expansion of its retro-commissioning project to the West Coast. Through this project, FSE analyzed HEI's La Jolla hotel in San Diego, CA and provided HEI Hotel & Resorts with a number of ways it can help improve the efficiency of its 360-room hotel, while continuing the level of luxury people associate with HEI. impressive energy campaign to save not only $500,000 since 2008, but also the jobs of many hardworking educators, so that the administration can continue to focus on high-performance education for students, instead of trying to simply make ends meet.

"As part of our analysis, we recommended that HEI replace the existing centrifugal chiller with a high-speed, oil-less unit that uses magnetic bearings (such as Turbocor)," says Gary Robinson, facilities performance engineer for Four Seasons Environmental, Inc. "This would save the facility 30 percent of its annual chiller electricity cost, which is impressive, as the chiller is the single largest energy consumer in La Jolla hotel."

Energy Efficiency Works Looks to Future

Four Seasons Environmental, Inc. was honored to take part in the Greater Cincinnati Health Council's "Energy Efficiency Works," a Solutions Conference series event. The conference took place March 28 at the Cincinnati Red Cross facility, and kicked off with exhibits and tours of the facility.