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    A Look Inside ‘The World's Greenest Hotel’

    Oct. 24, 2014
    The hotel features one of the world’s most advanced aquifer thermal-energy-storage systems, Grundfos TPE vertical in-line volute pumps, and Danfoss VLT HVAC drives.

    This month, Candace Roulo, senior editor of HPAC Engineering sister publication CONTRACTOR, traveled to Europe as part of a media tour sponsored by pump manufacturer Grundfos. In Copenhagen, Denmark, the group visited Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers, named the world's greenest hotel 
by Skål International, an association of travel and tourism professionals, in 2010 and Four Green Steps, an Internet environmental organization, in 2011.

    Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers also is the recipient of the 2010 European Hotel Design Award for sustainability and the InterContinental Hotels Group’s 2013 Green Engage award. In 2011, it was named one of the five most cutting-edge green hotels in the world by online travel company Travelocity.

    The hotel features one of the world’s most advanced aquifer thermal-energy-storage systems, Grundfos TPE vertical in-line volute pumps, and Danfoss VLT HVAC drives.

    Check out Candace’s photo gallery here.

    About the Author

    Scott Arnold | Executive Editor

    Described by a colleague as "a cyborg ... requir(ing) virtually no sleep, no time off, and bland nourishment that can be consumed while at his desk" who was sent "back from the future not to terminate anyone, but with the prime directive 'to edit dry technical copy' in order to save the world at a later date," Scott Arnold joined the editorial staff of HPAC Engineering in 1999. Prior to that, he worked as an editor for daily newspapers and a specialty-publications company. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University.