Hotels Are a New Frontier for Net-Zero
The country’s hotel industry has been a barren landscape for net-zero design, but new projects are popping up and they suggest that owners are finding ways around traditional roadblocks to lowering carbon emissions in a very energy-intensive corner of the commercial real estate market. In San Francisco, the William Penn Hotel in the city’s Tenderloin district is getting a $3 million net-zero rehab that will benefit the formerly homeless residents who live in its single-occupancy rooms. Improvements will include solar panels on the roof, better access to natural light, and new ventilation systems, according to this post at Fast Company.…