Super-green hotel will bottle its own brand of mineral water

12 April 2012

The largest hotel ever built in London will bottle all its own water to offer guests instead of expensive mineral brands.

The final beam of the £350 million Park Plaza Westminster Bridge hotel was bolted into place by Mayor Boris Johnson last night at the "topping out" ceremony.

The 1,021-room riverside hotel on the South Bank, which offers uninterrupted views of the Houses of Parliament from the former site of the Greater London Council building, will be one of the greenest in the capital once it opens early next year.

The onsite water plant is expected to produce more than a million bottles of triple-filtered tap water - sparkling and still - each year, using 10,000 reusable sterilised bottles for the hotel's restaurants, mini-bars and spa.

The venture will eclipse the success of the Cavendish Hotel in Jermyn Street, which won a gold environmental award from the London Development Agency's Green Tourism programme in March for its onsite plant that reuses 400 bottles, saving £14,500 a year.

Other green features include energy-efficient lighting and roof water collection for irrigating the gardens.

Infra-red technology in the hotel rooms, staff areas and public bathrooms will ensure lights are on only when someone is in the room and all the 25,000-plus lights will use an energy-saving LED or compact fluorescent bulb. It's hoped this will make its carbon footprint 606 tonnes a year smaller than if it had used traditional lighting.

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