Rotana Corporate Sustainability Report 2012

Energy Through discipline, creativity and new technology, we have started to improve our energy, water and waste performance. We developed and are implementing five environmental programmes water conservation and reduction, energy conservation, waste management and recycling, green office and food waste reduction programmes. We continue to pursue initiatives and collaborative efforts with property owners, colleagues and guests to develop and implement more initiatives and programmes to further improve our performance. Lighting Our engineering department is always looking for more energy efficient lighting options: CFL, LED, timers, photocells. The ongoing re-lamping exercise in the past two years has resulted in replacing 47% bulbs to LED lamps in UAE hotels and an average of 15% of total bulbs in all our hotels were changed to LED lamps. Energy optimisation The heating and cooling systems consume the most energy in a building. In addition to the technical process, our engineers understand how to manage cost, safety, efficiency, as well as heat balance and outside climatic conditions: • The variable frequency drives (VFDs) are installed on 37 % of our total hotels pumps (199 out of 542 pumps) and on 38% of our hotels Air Handling Units (AHUs, 132 out of 346) that helps to optimise energy load to the demand of our ventilation systems and pumps. • Building Management Systems installed in 62 % of our hotels, helps to further optimise the energy consumption by centrally adjusting guestroom thermostats and public areas temperature and is commonly integrated into new construction and renovations. • Guestroom energy management systems that use keycards to activate or deactivate electrical power for lighting are installed in 92 % of our hotels and for FCUs in 43 % of our hotels. Adopting clean technologies Currently four Rotana Hotels partially source power from onsite renewable energy. The solar panels installed in four hotels saved 1,028,855 MJ in 2012. Ozone Depleting Substances The ODS have a detrimental effect on the ozone layer, damaging the Earth’s protection against excessive levels of solar radiation. The Montreal Protocol regulates the phase-out of CFCs, halons and other ozone-depleting chemicals internationally. Older systems in our hotels and properties are the main sources of our ODS emissions. We are aiming to replace all ozone-depleting refrigerants in use by the Group by continuing our efforts to upgrade our current systems and changing to environmentally safer refrigerants across our hotels. Our estimated ODS emissions in 2012 were 530 kg CFC-11 equivalent compared to 246 kg in 2011. Key Issues: • Energy • Water • Waste • Materials Nature is the basis of our wellbeing and our prosperity. At Rotana, our strategic sustainability objectives commit us to demonstrate leadership in Environmental Responsibility across the group by: • Managing our operations in a manner that protects our valuable natural resources and prevents pollution of the environment, in compliance with environmental laws. • Minimising our impact on climate change and reducing our consumption of energy and water by optimising operational efficiency and adopting clean technologies. • Optimising materials consumption and reducing waste to landfill by reusing and recycling natural resources and materials.