Retail & Hospitality Sustainability Trends

Retail & Hospitality Sustainability Trends

Sustainability has many benefits: lower operating costs, increase occupants’ health and guest experience, increase competitiveness by improved brand recognition and customer loyalty, increase employee retention and satisfaction, and reduced resource consumption and emissions. The improvement of brand awareness through “doing good”…

Mika Kania21 August 2017

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Connecting Young Minds @ Nature Works Hong Kong

BEE proudly supported The Nature Conservancy's "Nature Works Hong Kong" program again this year, which inspires young minds from all over Hong Kong to implement sustainability initiatives in their schools. The program, administered by world-renowned education providers Seeds Training, takes students…

Alessandro6 August 2017

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China’s 13th Five-Year Plan and Sustainability Trends

China’s 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) targets “maintaining medium-high growth” with five focus areas: innovation, coordinated development, green growth, openness, and inclusive growth. In the “green growth” section, the Chinese government plans to support the growth of local energy-saving and environmental protection…

Mika Kania3 August 2017

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Shining a Light on Solar Solutions

One of the simplest changes you can make to reduce your carbon footprint and save on energy bills is to something you already have in your home: light bulbs. Switching indoor bulbs to CFLs is a great start, but using…

Mika Kania29 July 2017

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Polluting the Brain: What You Need to Know About Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Air Pollution

Medical experts are beginning to link Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia to pollution in the air we breathe. Forms of dementia, like Alzheimer’s disease, can affect several aspects of one’s cognitive abilities, such as logical reasoning, memory, and…

Alessandro3 July 2017

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Reduce Allergies By Switching to Eco Cleaning Products

Did you know that using many big-name brand household cleaners, is actually similar to using hazardous waste? The stark reality is that each time you clean, you could be spreading toxic chemicals around your home. If you want to reduce…

Alessandro16 June 2017

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BEE’s New Service: Intelligent Building Management w/ QLEAR

BEE is pleased to offer QLEAR, a cloud-based intelligent building management platform for analyzing building performance in real time. QLEAR pulls building data together including energy, water and gas consumption and indoor air quality, acoustic and lighting performance to help…

Alessandro12 January 2017

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Cx is the Rx: The Importance of Commissioning Your Project.

I’m closing out the year by discussing a subject that I think needs to hit the mainstream already! Commissioning (Cx) – it’s too often overlooked. I could write pages and pages on this stuff so definitely look for future posts…

Alessandro1 January 2017

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8 Easy Steps to Towards a Green Home in the City

You’re probably reading this because you’re interested in living as responsibly as you can. There’s so much we can do in so many areas of our lives that it can get overwhelming. Still, you have to start somewhere...let's get you…

Alessandro19 December 2016

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The Implications of the 2016 LEED Price Increase

A popular topic of discussion recently among green building professionals has been the LEED price increase that the USGBC announced earlier this month for the registration and certification of LEED projects. This is the first LEED price increase since 2010.…

Alessandro22 November 2016