Sustainable food
: NH Hotel Group offers its
customers healthy options, organic food and local
produce. Therefore, the Company supports the
local economy and culture of the places where its
hotels are located.
• “Healthy Corner” for meetings and events service
where customers can find fresh and natural
options. Vegetarian and specific culture diets and
meals are offered, as well as organic and eco-
friendly certified products.
• “Regional Corner” includes a local offer of
products for breakfast provided by the hotel’s
nearby suppliers.
• Market gardens in NH Collection Eurobuilding
and in NH Barbizon Palace that enable the hotel
to offer at its restaurants fresh vegetables coming
from the hotels’ roof-top gardens.
Green Hotel Project
This project aims to offer value to customers through taking
sustainable actions and stressing the innovative attributes that
improve brand perception.
Eco-Standards: Green Basics
Sustainable operations guide for the hotel:
Incorporating the
environmental requirements that apply to each hotel department.
Ecoefficient hotel guide:
This manual contains water and
energy saving strategies and sets out guidelines concerning
the use of materials and construction in order to ensure that
the hotels are more efficient and environmentally friendly. NH
Hotel Group is one of the main companies in the world where
preparing and implementing a standard of these characteristics
is concerned and its ultimate aim is to make sure that its own new
establishments obtain the LEED® or BREEAM environmental
certificates.
COMMITMENT TO OUR STAKEHOLDERS
Environmental sustainability
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When are our hotels
sustainable?
When they comply with the following requirements:
1. Reporting water consumption, energy consumption and
carbon footprint on a monthly basis
2. Arranging for audits from an external company to verify
fulfilment of the NH Hotel Group’s sustainability standards
3. Having an external environmental certificate (ISO, Green
Key or Greenleader)
4. Having a green laundry programme for sheets and towels
5. Having a recycling programme
6. Ensuring that the paper comes from sustainable sources
7. Having installed more than 75% LED lighting
NH Ribera del Manzanares
Hotel con certificación BREEAM
Madrid, Spain
