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 State-of-the-art V3F technology lifts are installed. They use half the electricity used by normal lifts, by reducing the inertia power thrust for acceleration, and in the bargain giving precision landing and a jerk-free ride, taking particular care of our physically challenged guests in promoting tourism and helping us save fossil fuel burning by reducing the use of electricity. In this latest technology the lift motor does not start and brake like a normal motor, where the maximum current is drawn on the starting of the motor and is immediately wasted on landing where breaks are applied and the motor is again started for the next stop. Here the motor keeps rotating and clutches engage and dis-engage the motor for the stops, thereby not drawing valuable electric power to start and re-start but a standard flow of current working on gears. (Brand used Kone Elevators).
Vapour Heat Absorption Plant is used for air-conditioning the entire hotel, which reduces the use of electricity and emission of harmful CFC gases, that deplete the ozone layer. The heat transfer air-conditioners work on natural gas to produce the cool ambiance, instead of using electricity to compress harmful gases like C.F.C. or Freon used in other air-conditioners, thereby using an eco-friendly natural gas, not using electricity, thereby reducing fossil fuel burning, depleting ozone layer, and third fold by not using C.F.C. gases like Freon for compression, which also are harmful to the ozone layer. Thus it helps three times in avoiding the usage of harmful ozone depleting gases. The green house effect is maintained, and the ozone layer is protected.
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The hot water system of the hotel is fabricated in the "Loop Logistic" design, such that the first drop from the tap is of hot water. Usually, a room guest has to flow tap water for atleast 3 minutes before hot water starts flowing from the tap or shower. This is because the hot water pipe radiates heat and in the cold false ceilings of air-conditioned rooms, the hot water pipe gets cold and the water inside the pipe cools down. If hot water is required, the cold pipe water has to be discarded till hot water starts flowing from the tap. This wastes the water in the pipe which has been using electricity to pump from the water station to the hotel under-ground water tank, to the over-head water tank. With the loop logistics there is hot water circulating in the pipe-line all the time, which returns to a storage tank that is insulated such that, it avoids the initial wastage of cold water. Thus the guest gets hot water coming out, from the hot water tap immediately without wasting valuable water.
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Natural gas is used for cooking of all food, heating of water for the guests and the wash up or the scullery, last and the most important for the air-conditioning system. Since Baroda Municipal Corporation supplies ONGC-GAIL piped gas to Baroda the usage of electricity as a fuel is minimized and fossil burning is avoided.
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C.F.L. lamps and metal halite lamps are used which not only provide more intensity of light as compared to conventional incandescent lamps, but also use much less electricity, thereby reducing the fossil burning for thermal power generation.
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Recycled and wood free paper is used in our corporate stationery. This avoids the usage of virgin paper, which requires the chopping of eco-balancing trees to make fresh paper. This handmade paper uses paper that has been used earlier and is re-cycled and re-fabricated hence it avoids usage of that much quantity of virgin paper and saving the trees from being cut for paper making.
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Rooms are fitted with energy saving key-tag system, which cuts off the power supply to the room when the guest leaves the room. Thus when a room is not occupied by a guest, the lights are not working. The moment a guest enters the room, he pushes in his key tag into the socket to get the lights on, and conversely when he wants to leave the room and take the keys out with him, he has to pull the key out from the socket which switches off the power supplied to the room.
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Guests are educated on water conservation measures, which can be followed during the stay at our hotel, by an attractive tent card placed in the bathroom. It gives a table of usage of water by a guest in the day to day toilet activities and how by becoming eco-aware the guest can help the hotel in saving water, an example of brushing teeth with the basin tap on and off.
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All W.Cs are fitted with flush valves that utilize lesser amount of water than flush cisterns. A fixed quantity of water is wasted in flushing the W.C. pans using a water tank or cistern but when a flush valve is used, only that much water flows from the flush as much the spindle of the valve is depressed. Water wastage is reduced to reasonable limits, as the pan is not required to be flushed fully after every kind of use
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All taps are fitted with air mixers, which suck air on gravity principle when they are opened beyond a certain flow. This gives the guest a feeling of the same volume and pressure of water but factually there is mixing of air with water, thereby lowering the consumption of water. This saves a lot of water from being wasted in the taps.
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Specially designated non-smoking rooms require us to segregate the room linen, like the pillow-covers, bed-sheets, towels and curtains. Due to this they are washed separately and since they do not carry the tobacco fumed smells they do not require the same amount of washing with detergents as a normal room linen. Thus it helps in reducing the use of detergents, that cause a strain on our waste water disposal and help in balancing the marine life where this water is disposed.
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This building was designed for a high rise structure, but for the order of the Municipal authorities, stating "Structure to be maintained as a low rise due to environmental reasons" half of the permissible built-up area and F.S.I. have been set aside for greenery and beautification and primarily avoid any part of the structure spoiling the city-line, maintaining the adjoining garden tree height.
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Instead of using electric heaters for hot water in each room, and wasting valuable electricity a common boiler using natural pipeline gas is used, conserving electricity, and thereby avoiding fossil burning power station loads on our ecology.
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The ultra-film on the windowpanes will help to keep out harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun and will reduce the heat thereby reducing the air-conditioning load and saving energy and in turn avoid using fossil burnt power usage.
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Recycled wood is used in the making of the furniture, thereby conserving the use of fresh wood. It is an industry norm that the hotel needs a fresh look every five years and the wood that is recycled as particle wood, wears out in five years, giving us the chance to remake the wooden furniture that has used recycled wood, instead of new wood which is got from cutting down of trees and reducing the green ecology helping us balance our environment.
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Bricks from fertilizer waste are used in the civil work of the hotel. This helps in recycling of fertilizer waste, which is a load on the environment otherwise. Only our hotel does this bit in promoting tourism in the otherwise, commercial, garden city of Baroda. Important local monuments like the Laxmi Vilas Palace, Nyaya Mandir and the M. S. University are represented on our entire range of guest stationery. The Hotel Service Directory is in fact a veritable tourist guide to the city of Baroda. Resident guests are also given free tickets to various local attractions and historical monuments. Local sight seeing tours, tourist guides, and car rentals are arranged, as well by the hotel. Revival Hotel is promising enough to become a business address of Baroda. We have impeccable standards, professional management and gracious hospitality.
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