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Resort going green
390-unit time share set to open by 2010
By HARRY EAGAR, Staff Writer POSTED: June 26, 2008 Save | Print | Email | Read comments | Post a comment
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An artist’s rendering depicts what the Westin Nanea Kaanapali Ocean Villas would look like in the final hotel-zoned site at the Kaanapali North Beach project district. Developer Starwood Vacation Resorts said the new project could open by 2010.
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Starwood Vacation Resorts on Wednesday revealed its plans to build a third time-share resort at North Beach, with 390 units ranging from one to three bedrooms.
An architect's drawing presented along with the announcement Wednesday showed a resort with a similar look to the Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas and the Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas North, but Starwood said this version will be LEED-certified.
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a rating system for "green" buildings that reduce energy use in cooling, heating and lighting.
Matt Avril, president of Starwood Vacation Ownership, said the company is proud to be developing "the first stand-alone, full-service resort in Hawaii to be developed with this coveted certification in mind."
Starwood has named this project the Westin Nanea Kaanapali Ocean Villas, and it is expected to open in the fall of 2010. The announcement did not indicate if an application for a county special management area permit was filed.
When completed, the project will be the final resort development in the North Beach section of the Kaanapali Beach Resort.
The new resort will be unique for Maui in having a desalination and heat exchange system to produce drinking water and use cool seawater for air conditioning.
SVO spokesman David Matheson said the desalination plant will be the same technology used on cruise ships. Shore-based desalination plants usually go for brackish water, which takes less energy to purify. This one will use "100 percent saltwater," to be pumped from a well on the property at a depth of 300 feet.
The residue will be injected back at a depth of 600 to 700 feet.
The first SVO resort, Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas, uses a propane-fueled cogeneration system to make its own electricity and heat its pool with the exhaust heat.
The new resort also will go mostly off-grid with a cogeneration plant. Matheson said the heat exchange is predicted to save 12 million gallons per year of potable water.
Jennifer Stites, the green development coordinator for Dowling Co., said she was familiar in general though not in detail with the SVO plans.
"It's encouraging to see that other developers are raising the bar to meet the requirements of LEED," she said. "Resort developments are one of the highest consumers, so the impacts of incorporating energy and water efficiency on these types of projects is significant.
"It's exciting to see other developers raising the bar."
A resort the size of the Westin Nanea "has great economies of scale," she said.
Achieving LEED standards in Hawaii will usually add an incremental cost to a project - more so than on the Mainland, because LEED rewards developers for obtaining their building materials from nearby. Matheson said SVO is aiming at a basic LEED certification, as the higher (Gold and Platinum) set standards are very difficult to meet in a remote location like Hawaii.
Avril said the two Westin-branded time shares at North Beach are among the chain's most popular. "With Maui being such an important market for SVO, we are pleased that we will be adding a third resort."
The other resort at North Beach, still under construction, is Honua Kai, a 700-unit condominium-hotel project.
The first Starwood Vacation Ownership resort, Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas, opened in 2003, and the Ocean Resort Villas North opened in December.
The first has 258 units, most with lock-outs so that a two-bedroom unit can be occupied by two sets of customers. The second has 280 units, also with lock-outs.
Except for a few one- and three-bedroom units, almost all the 390 units at the Westin Nanea will be two-bedroom units. None will have lock-outs.
SVO also has a time-share resort on Kauai. It is a division of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.
Resort going green - Maui News
390-unit time share set to open by 2010
By HARRY EAGAR, Staff Writer POSTED: June 26, 2008 Save | Print | Email | Read comments | Post a comment
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An artist’s rendering depicts what the Westin Nanea Kaanapali Ocean Villas would look like in the final hotel-zoned site at the Kaanapali North Beach project district. Developer Starwood Vacation Resorts said the new project could open by 2010.
Starwood Vacation Resorts graphic
Starwood Vacation Resorts on Wednesday revealed its plans to build a third time-share resort at North Beach, with 390 units ranging from one to three bedrooms.
An architect's drawing presented along with the announcement Wednesday showed a resort with a similar look to the Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas and the Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas North, but Starwood said this version will be LEED-certified.
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a rating system for "green" buildings that reduce energy use in cooling, heating and lighting.
Matt Avril, president of Starwood Vacation Ownership, said the company is proud to be developing "the first stand-alone, full-service resort in Hawaii to be developed with this coveted certification in mind."
Starwood has named this project the Westin Nanea Kaanapali Ocean Villas, and it is expected to open in the fall of 2010. The announcement did not indicate if an application for a county special management area permit was filed.
When completed, the project will be the final resort development in the North Beach section of the Kaanapali Beach Resort.
The new resort will be unique for Maui in having a desalination and heat exchange system to produce drinking water and use cool seawater for air conditioning.
SVO spokesman David Matheson said the desalination plant will be the same technology used on cruise ships. Shore-based desalination plants usually go for brackish water, which takes less energy to purify. This one will use "100 percent saltwater," to be pumped from a well on the property at a depth of 300 feet.
The residue will be injected back at a depth of 600 to 700 feet.
The first SVO resort, Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas, uses a propane-fueled cogeneration system to make its own electricity and heat its pool with the exhaust heat.
The new resort also will go mostly off-grid with a cogeneration plant. Matheson said the heat exchange is predicted to save 12 million gallons per year of potable water.
Jennifer Stites, the green development coordinator for Dowling Co., said she was familiar in general though not in detail with the SVO plans.
"It's encouraging to see that other developers are raising the bar to meet the requirements of LEED," she said. "Resort developments are one of the highest consumers, so the impacts of incorporating energy and water efficiency on these types of projects is significant.
"It's exciting to see other developers raising the bar."
A resort the size of the Westin Nanea "has great economies of scale," she said.
Achieving LEED standards in Hawaii will usually add an incremental cost to a project - more so than on the Mainland, because LEED rewards developers for obtaining their building materials from nearby. Matheson said SVO is aiming at a basic LEED certification, as the higher (Gold and Platinum) set standards are very difficult to meet in a remote location like Hawaii.
Avril said the two Westin-branded time shares at North Beach are among the chain's most popular. "With Maui being such an important market for SVO, we are pleased that we will be adding a third resort."
The other resort at North Beach, still under construction, is Honua Kai, a 700-unit condominium-hotel project.
The first Starwood Vacation Ownership resort, Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas, opened in 2003, and the Ocean Resort Villas North opened in December.
The first has 258 units, most with lock-outs so that a two-bedroom unit can be occupied by two sets of customers. The second has 280 units, also with lock-outs.
Except for a few one- and three-bedroom units, almost all the 390 units at the Westin Nanea will be two-bedroom units. None will have lock-outs.
SVO also has a time-share resort on Kauai. It is a division of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.
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