Gran Meliá Palacio de Isora hotel, Tenerife, Canary Islands

Melià

Room
for light
The Sol Meliá hotel chain, with 85.000 rooms in 30 countries,
is Europe’s third largest. As part of the group’s SAVE initiative
to minimize its environmental impact, energy-efficient lighting
solutions were investigated.

The challenge for the chain’s newest hotel, the Gran Meliá Palacio de
Isora in Tenerife (which opened in July 2008) was to find alternatives
for conventional halogen lamps in the bedrooms. LEDs gave the ideal
solution; requiring only 12 W of power to produce the same illumination
as 35 W halogen equivalents.

This represents energy savings of 66% and a 463 kg/year reduction in CO2
emissions per room. And thanks to an average lifetime of 50 000 hours,
the lighting requires little or no maintenance. LEDs installed in the central
Project Gran Meliá Palacio de Isora hotel
ceiling dome of each bedroom further reduced consumption by 88%, and
Location Tenerife, Canary Islands
cut CO2 emissions by an additional 4269 kg/year.
Architect Valentina Rodríguez / Rebeca Pérez, INTERARQ,
Cancún, Mexico
The Palacio de Isora hotel’s 20 communal areas now almost all use LED
Lighting design Alicia Jorge / Carolina Requena, SIN MOLDES,
lighting, and both functional and decorative lighting solutions are equipped
Tenerife, Spain
with a control system which can be used to create different lighting
Lighting solutions SSL Iberica Team / Enrique Aguado, Spain
scenarios. There is also touch screen in each of the main rooms to
LED products used Spot LED 3K2 recessed version
control the lighting and maximise energy savings.
Flex LEDNG
Spot LED 3K2
eW Cove
Affinium LED String
Underwater LED K2
LEDline2

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