IHG Motels & Resorts, one of many world’s main lodge firms, has opened voco Zeal Exeter Science Park – IHG’s first branded web zero* carbon lodge, in partnership with Zeal Motels and Valor Hospitality. It has been designed to function totally on renewable and photo voltaic vitality.

As with all voco branded lodges, the 142-room voco Zeal Exeter Science Park has been designed to assist visitors actually unwind and really feel relaxed with using impartial tones and modern options all through the visitor rooms and public areas. Company staying on the lodge can have entry to a mini fitness center, gardens, a flexible assembly area and 12 EV charging factors. The lodge’s onsite restaurant and bar, ISCA, emphasises using locally-sourced substances, collaborating with regional farms and producers to supply contemporary, accountable eating choices.

The voco Zeal Exeter Science Park stands out with its sustainable design, which earned a BREAAM Excellent ranking, a famend sustainable buildings certification. It’s the first constructing within the UK that has utilised the Solarlab vertical photovoltaic panels as a rainscreen cladding system. It additionally follows the Passivhaus commonplace for ultra-low vitality buildings and makes use of adiabatic cooling and warmth reversible warmth pumps to cut back vitality utilization.

According to voco’s dedication to innovation and sustainability and a perception that small steps collectively make a giant distinction, voco Zeal Exeter Science Park was constructed utilizing supplies chosen for his or her sustainable traits and assembled innovatively to realize best-in-class outcomes. For instance, they’ve used Ecocrete throughout development, a low carbon concrete with as much as 85% much less CO2 than CEM1 (100% cement).

Joanna Kurowska, VP, Managing Director UK & Eire at IHG Motels & Resorts, commented: “With a rising variety of travellers looking for accountable journey choices, we’re delighted to open voco Zeal Exeter Science Park. The lodge will convey a brand new sustainable lodge supply to our UK portfolio and construct on our dedication to offer distinctive experiences for our visitors.

“Along with Zeal Motels, voco Zeal Exeter Science Park helps set the requirements for web zero carbon lodges and marks a pivotal step in direction of a extra sustainable future in hospitality, aligned with IHG’s Journey to Tomorrow accountable marketing strategy. By inspiring each business leaders and our visitors, we’re demonstrating how consolation and sustainability can efficiently coexist, benefiting each the setting and the communities we serve.”

Tim Wheeldon, Founding Director, Zeal Motels, commented: “I’m extremely happy with the crew behind the voco Zeal Exeter Science Park, who’ve labored laborious to convey the Zeal Motels imaginative and prescient to fruition. Our partnerships with IHG Motels & Resorts and Valor Hospitality have been essential all through the event course of and we’re excited to launch this new sustainable lodge.

“It has been greater than a decade since we based Zeal Motels, with the intention of serving to the lodge sector be web zero carbon by 2050.

“The choice to construct our web zero lodge displays our dedication to combating local weather change and lowering our carbon footprint. By harnessing renewable vitality sources, implementing energy-efficient designs, and utilising modern know-how, we have now created an area that not solely supplies consolation and luxurious but additionally prioritises environmental accountability. We’re trying ahead to sharing our information with others to assist speed up the web zero carbon course of throughout the sector.”

Brian McCarthy, Managing Director, Valor Hospitality, mentioned: “Valor has been a profitable associate with IHG for over 10 years within the UK. We’re actually happy to be working with them on this primary branded web zero carbon lodge. Thanks to Zeal Motels who selected us as their administration associate and gave us a chance to work on this cutting-edge undertaking. That is one other step in our aspiration to develop our enterprise with nice homeowners.

“voco Zeal Exeter Science Park is devoted to supporting and forging hyperlinks with its neighborhood, working intently with the Science Park and native college students. The lodge goals to function a centre for information, sharing insights on sustainable lodge development and operations, and fostering a tradition of studying.”

voco lodges is IHG’s quickest rising premium model, providing a lodge expertise that’s constantly considerate and distinct. Every property is characterised by its particular person appeal, offering visitors with one thing totally different whereas additionally making certain the reliability of a world model. There are at the moment 29** voco lodges open throughout Europe with greater than 20 attributable to open within the subsequent three to 5 years.