Erika Pärn has carried out studies to look into how construction methods that are more technologically advanced could change the industry and how they carry out mapping for entire buildings, cities and road networks. Erika is a Lecturer at Birmingham University and specialises in Architectural Technology. She has shown through
The Mövenpick Hotel Stuttgart Airport & Messe has been setting a number of targets since 2010 in order to reduce their CO2 usage and energy consumption in order to be more sustainable. The hotel has revealed that these targets have led to a total saving of 36%. The Hotel has
Erika Pärn has carried out studies to look into how construction methods that are more technologically advanced could change the industry and how they carry out mapping for entire buildings, cities and road networks. Erika is a Lecturer at Birmingham University and specialises in Architectural Technology. She has shown through her research that technology could have a significant impact on the mapping abilities of the construction industry. It is thought that digital building techniques can be used in order to radically transform infrastructure and communities. This could be the redesigning of an international tourist hotspot or the redevelopment of slums and shanty towns. It is thought that the work in to this field that has been carried out by Erika Pärn is groundbreaking. Her research was recently presented as part of one of the major international infrastructure conferences which took place in Ghana. At this conference Erika gave the keynote speech. The speech was delivered by Erika to a large audience, among them was the Minister for Environment, Science and Technology as well as the Ashanti Minister and the Mayor of Kumasi. As part of her presentation of the conference in Ghana, Erika Pärn showed that using the technology that is slowly coming on to the market can give a clearer idea of how people use land and infrastructure in order to be cleverer with designing and create communities that are more responsive as well as delivering a number of different cost savings when carrying out schemes that ae government funded. Erika Pärn’s research focused on technologies that are currently being utilizes when creating modern commercial spaces and how they can be adapted in order to design smarter cities that are built with the proper facilities and amenities to suit the inhabitants’ needs whether they are affluent or more deprived. Technology like Building Information Modeling are usually used individually on a project, but it is thought that by merging them with other both new and established technologies can be used together in order to help decide on the best locations for infrastructure development.
The Mövenpick Hotel Stuttgart Airport & Messe has been setting a number of targets since 2010 in order to reduce their CO2 usage and energy consumption in order to be more sustainable. The hotel has revealed that these targets have led to a total saving of 36%. The Hotel has recently been honoured with the Green Globe Certification in order to recognise their achievements. The Hotel is seen as one of the leading hotels in Stuttgart and the surrounding area and it is thought that the company are striving to create a ‘Green Spirit’ as they aim to help the environment and be more sustainable in the running of the hotel. The Mövenpick Hotel Stuttgart Airport & Messe has changed the lighting in their public space and have adopted LED lighting and lamps wherever they were able as well as the installing motion sensors throughout the public and back of house areas in order to cut down on energy usage. The Key cards for each of the guests’ rooms are also connected and can automatically control the temperature and lighting in the room. The rest of the temperature I the hotel is set to change automatically with a fixed maximum and minimum setting that responds to the weather conditions. The hotel also looks to offset any CO2 that they generate through business trips by using Atmosphere projects which look to provide 100% CO2 savings and has been awarded the CDM Gold Standard which is the highest possible certification for projects that focus on carbon offset. The Hotel also prides itself on providing staff with a safe and healthy working environment that offers both fairness and transparency. Any and all new employees at the hotel must go through training at a Welcome Day where they are educated about the Hotel, the Brand and the sustainability programmes that have been set up. There are also shorter sustainability trainings during the daily 10-minute briefings that are held by department managers.