Holiday Inn Express Melbourne Southbank
Why we’re “green” with envy By Lucinda Dean, Industry Reporter
The Holiday Inn Express Melbourne Southbank is set to make its industry peers ‘green’ with envy as it shoots for the stars. The newly built 4-star hotel has an ambitious 12-month plan to become Australia’s first accommodation venue to achieve a 5-star rating
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from the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS). Opening its doors to guests on December 23, 2019, the landmark Melbourne hotel has already set a new standard in green hospitality.
the heart of Melbourne’s arts and entertainment precinct, Southbank, the 345-room hotel is integral to the 22-storey mixed-use development incorporating 370m2 retail space and 4,500m2 of commercial space and carparking.
Developed and operated by Pro-invest Group, the Holiday Inn Express Melbourne Southbank, was designed to consume 25 percent less energy than its city hotel counterparts. Located in
It was the first hotel in Australia to receive approximately $40 million in funding from the federal government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). According to Pro-invest,
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the $40 million construction and term debt facility was used to raise the original 4.5-star NABERS rating target to 5-stars. To shoot for the 5-star NABERS rating, the build incorporated high-performance glazing, highefficiency air-cooled chillers and condensing boilers, and solar photovoltaic systems on the hotel’s roof to augment the hotel’s light carbon footprint. Other green initiatives included regenerative lift drives rather
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