Radisson’s high-energy party place commits to eco-friendly initiative with lamps created from waste materials and LED lighting.

The team at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Media City’s Tamanya Terrace have worked up a novel energy saving idea to create lighting using otherwise discarded shampoo holders.

The five lamps stand on a recycled stainless steel base, each comprising 16-20 shampoo holders and an energy-saving LED bulb.

“Tamanya Terrace is now illuminated with our home-designed environment-friendly lamps created from shampoo holders that would otherwise have found their way to the garbage,” according to Marco Aveta, the hotel’s Operations Manager.

Aveta said that tests have indicated that the lamps use up to half the energy of a ‘normal’ lamp, and make use of trashed materials to boot.

“We estimate that the five lamps, which we have named LAMPOO in honour of their shampoo holder-origin, are twice as eco-friendly as their traditional counterparts.

“Our engineering team combined engineering skills and creative ideas to create the LAMPOO eco-friendly lighting system team using recycled materials salvaged from a bathroom refit that took place in some rooms.”

The hotels’ general manager, Pasquale Baiguera, said Tamanya Terrace now makes good use of all five lamps and shared that the hotel is planning to notch-up similar eco-friendly ideas throughout this year.

“Eco-design recycling is the latest trend in the design industry. We have taken the bait and my team is energised to become more and more innovative when it comes to recycling.

“The sheer immensity of material that can go waste in a hotel has triggered ideas for creative recycling. We are on the look out for the intelligent use of resources, especially those that look headed for the bin, and LAMPOO is just the tip of this iceberg,” said Baiguera.

He said that the Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Media City is committed to the ‘Reduced Carbon Footprint Drive’ of DTCM and advised that the hotel already features energy-efficient, LED lighting.

“We introduced LED lighting and have noticed a reduction in energy consumption by up to 81 per cent. Plus, we are way ahead in water recycling and we now use chemical-free degradable cleaning products,’’ concluded Baiguera.

SOURCE: dubaicityguide