Engineering/Maintenance
Best practices, trends and news in the back-of-house engineering and maintenance departments of hotels and resorts.
Behind the Scenes April 15, 2012
Operational insights to help keep your property running at full speed...
Increasing Efficiency in Hotel Laundries
A hotel’s laundry room may not be thought of as the most advanced, efficient operation within the building—but why not? Laundry managers have more options today to improve this necessary function of a hotel....
Behind the Scenes Nov. 15
Operational insight to help keep your property running at full speed....
Hotel Industry on OSHA Radar
The hotel industry is on the radar of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Attention was amped up in October 2010, when OSHA launched a Local Emphasis Enforcement Program (LEP) for Virgin Island hotels. The area’s hotels came under OSHA scrutiny because they recorded a significant number of workplace injuries. With OSHA taking a proactive stance, that attention — and associated inspections — will likely spread into other parts of OSHA Region 2....
Homewood Suites Boosts Housekeepers, Engineers
In the modern world of hotelkeeping, the most important managers at the majority of properties are the executive housekeeper and chief engineer. As the executive committee at many hotels shrinks, housekeepers and engineers must take on additional responsibilities and, more importantly, assume key leadership roles in their hotels, management and ownership companies and even brand companies....
Mold Eradication: Protecting Lodging from Lawsuits
Owners and operators of hotels, motels or any lodging establishment need no reminders about the ever-present threat of mold along with the litigation associated with its discovery. ...
AHLEI Rolls out Anti-terrorism Training
In November 2008, terrorists attacked two luxury hotels in Mumbai, India. Less than a year later, in July 2009, terrorists hit two hotels—the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton—in Jakarta, Indonesia. In January 2010 the targets were hotels was Baghdad. In April 2011, Nigeria....
Accor Hotels Are Ready For Hurricane Season
At least three major hurricanes are predicted this year, according to the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center. That’s not all: If the meteorologists are right, Gulf Coast hotels may weather as many as a dozen other serious storms during the June to November hurricane season. The question, as always, is where and, thus, which hotels may be effected. ...
Maintaining Laundry Can Affect Your Bottom Line
Over the past decade, the trend in the hospitality industry has been toward providing customers with high-end towels and bedding. This increased emphasis on linens has led to sustained pressure on hotel laundry facilities to improve throughput rates while preserving high quality fabrics....
Hotel Receivers Talk Turnaround Strategies
Working as a hotel receiver isn’t for the faint of heart. The assignment often comes on short notice, sometimes includes a surprised and hostile borrower and a property whose physical structure, staff and cash flow have deteriorated. ...
LEED Pays Off For Motel 6
When the Motel 6 in Northlake, TX earned its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification this July, it became the first economy hotel to earn the designation from the U.S. Green Building Council. It’s also Accor’s first hotel to be certified, and it wasn’t even part of the company’s original plan for the hotel....
