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Hotel Verde Cape Town Airport: The Greenest Hotel in Africa Hotel Verde Cape Town Airport offers a 100 per cent offset carbon-neutral stay, modern and stylish guestrooms, versatile conference and events facilities, and a natural, green setting just 400m from Cape Town International Airport.
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aving won multiple sustainability awards and retaining the title of Africa’s Greenest Hotel, The Hotel Verde Cape Town has been designed with the notion of sustainability at its core. This means that it’s not only the building itself that has been constructed in a sustainable fashion, but that a variety of eco-conscious principles, processes, and measures are followed throughout all operations — systems that are also continually assessed to measure
effectiveness and determine room for improvement. So, what exactly makes a hotel ‘green’? Good question. It’s a variety of big things and little things. At Hotel Verde Cape Town Airport, this includes: Sustainable design During the design and construction phase of Hotel Verde Cape Town Airport, the project followed the criteria of the Green Building Council of South Africa and continues to pursue five-star certification.
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This includes choices like the inclusion of a natural eco pool, regenerative drive elevators, as well as the use of responsibly sourced, recycled, and eco-friendly furniture, etc. Energy efficiency We keep our energy use as low as possible by opting for low-watt LED lighting, as well as sophisticated heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems to reduce energy consumption, alongside renewable energy generation. www.businesseventsafrica.com
