Paladino Client Marriott Accelerates Green Hotel Development

Marriott International, Inc announced that it will expand its green hotel portfolio ten-fold over the next five years by introducing a green hotel prototype that will be pre-certified as part of the LEED Volume Certification pilot program. To accomplish this, Marriott engaged Paladino and Company to assist in the development of a volume certification program that included sustainable design and construction standards that will reach across five of their hotel brands.

Paladino’s role included:

• Creating sustainable design standards that reflected the best of successful strategies culled from the field, in alignment with the desired level of LEED certification
• Leveraging successful green design strategies to achieve cost-effective LEED certification throughout the portfolio and developing the LEED Volume Certification Program as part of Marriott’s participation in the USGBC sponsored pilot program
• Establishing training modules, quality control and education plans, communications materials, decision filters and tools for use by franchisee design teams
• Defining the portfolio commissioning process for a franchisee structure
• Performing green building technical studies to validate potential design strategies

For a press release issued by Marriott announcing their LEED Volume program, please click here.