1. Exterior design
This section will give you the idea of exterior design of green hotel and also how the design of the hotel makes energy efficient. And it will have a new idea to build a hotel with shipping containers, it saves time, labour cost and construction cost which are in most important elements to build a building.
1.1 History of Construction
It can be traced back to 18th century people were using stone to build a building, it related to high cost, long time to build, but the buildings are still very strong, and people feel cool during the summer and warm during the winter. In contrast, nowadays new building related to cheaper cost and use shorter time to built but worse quality as well as people use a lot of chemical materials which is very bad for health.
1.1a 1.1b
Fig.1.1a Stone house
Fig.1.1b NV building in Manchester, but it was a truth that the external wall of NV building fell down from floor 17 to floor 8 because it was windy in Manchester.
1.2 Green Buildings
Shipping container building
It took 5 months to build container city 1 which opened on May 2001 and provided 12 work studios, in 2003, another floor was added in less than 2days and provided 3 additional work apartments, a total of 100 units make up container city in Trinity Buoy Wharf of London. And recently, Travelodge use 12 weeks to build its first shipping container hotel in Uxbridge, it will be completed in June with 120 bedrooms over eight floors. Travelodge said the container-style hotel was cheaper and faster to construct.
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Travelodge reckons building with shipping containers will cut 10% of ...