The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites received L.A.’s first Green Seal Silver Certification.
The 1,354-room hotel earned the certification as a result of implementing a variety of energy-saving and waste reduction initiatives that management estimates will save the property approximately $225,000.
By 2012, the hotel will have replaced all existing guest room water fixtures with water conserving fixtures, including faucets, aerators, showers, toilets and waterless urinals, saving as much as 10 million gallons of water per year. Light sensors, currently operating in all 27 meeting rooms, also will be added to all hotel linen closets during the next five years.
The hotel features 110,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space, including the largest hotel ballroom in the city.
