Lea Marston Hotel

The Best Western Lea Marston Hotel and Leisure Complex is a premier venue for golfers, the business community and holiday goers alike. Situated in 54 acres near Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, the complex boasts 80 bedrooms, extensive onference facilities, an impressive Health Club with indoor pool and beauty salon, 2 restaurants, bars and 2 x 9 hole Golf Courses. Richard Blake, the hotel’s Property Director needed to reduce heating expenditure and improve control of the hotel’s heating systems, particularly in light of rapidly escalating gas prices. “It was important for us to find a way of reducing heating costs and crucial that comfort levels and hot water availability were not compromised in any way” said Richard. The hotel’s heating systems comprise a variety of gas fired boiler plant of differing types and output, some operating in sequence, others on their own. It was important to find a more efficient and cost effective way to heat the hotel and leisure complex using its existing heating equipment. Total Energy Controls carried out a free diagnostic survey of the heating systems and produced a detailed report recommending the installation of its TEC Energy Management Systems. The recommendations were accepted and a range of Total Energy Controls Boiler Management Systems were installed to manage the various central heating systems. Moreover the hotel benefited from most of the TEC Systems installed qualifying for Enhanced Capital Allowances as part of the government's 'Action Energy' scheme administered by the Carbon Trust. TEC systems were installed in the late winter/spring 2005, and early results have been impressive: “We carry out ongoing measurements of gas usage, and based on meter reads taken during the final weeks of the heating season we observed overall gas savings of around 20% compared with the same period last year. This includes gas used for cooking which is pretty constant, therefore it follows that the saving on gas used for heating alone attributable to the TEC systems is likely be substantially higher” commented Richard Blake. “Moreover, internal temperatures and hot water availability have been stable and comfortable for our guests”, added Richard, who is naturally delighted with the results. Richard added, “Based on the TEC Systems performance so far, we expect gas reads over the next heating season to demonstrate that they will pay for themselves easily within 18 months from the date they were installed”.

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