HOSPITALITY
Davidson Hospitality Group
How a hotel management group drove energy and water savings across their portfolio with real-time energy monitoring and engineering support.
In 2022, Davidson Hospitality Group partnered with InSite to implement InSite’s Building Optimization program across their KSL owned properties. The program yielded immediate energy savings with a significant ROI.
The Challenge
Davidson wanted to lower their utility spend but didn’t have any data to go on. After seeing InSite’s proven results elsewhere, Davidson knew the path to energy savings involved monitoring energy, water and building automation systems in real-time. Davidson’s InSite program yields an impressive ROI while reducing their environmental footprint.
Offering best-in-class services and technology, Davidson’s vision aligned closely with InSite. InSite delivers automated daily utility reports at the property teams fingertips. InSite Engineers and Analysts meet with the properties monthly and quarterly for expert analysis and engineer input.
Industry
Use Cases
Continuous Commissioning
Energy procurement
InSite Solutions
InSite Formalize
InSite Optimize
Results
After commencing InSite’s Building Optimization program in 2022, Davidson quickly realized significant savings. With a program ROI of 194% in 2024, InSite is driving a utility consumption reduction across each of electric, natural gas and water, all while hotel occupancy is increasing. This resulted in cost savings of $437,000 – or a 4% decrease in rate-adjusted costs – all while occupancy increased 5%.
Hotels
Monitoring savings
ECMs
Identified
Reduction
Energy and water use
The InSite Solution
InSite implemented their Building Optimization program through a combination of hardware, software and managed services. Building data collection starts with our connect phase, where custom “Light-up Plans” for each property are developed. Hardware was deployed to each site and connected to the InSite Platform. Engineers visited sites to perform Energy Audits, and all initial data is collected, analyzed and presented in a Performance Improvement Roadmap. From there, InSite’s managed services team meets with properties monthly or quarterly, reviewing data and identifying additional opportunities for energy and water savings. Additionally, real-time energy reports give property teams data at their fingertips.
On the supply side, InSite’s Utility Services provide Energy Procurement support as well as Utility Rebate Management. This helps Davidson further control costs in de-regulated markets or utilities providing rebates. Through this program, InSite has provided over $100,000 in cost savings for Davidson.
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The proven process has delivered hospitality companies between 15 and 20% reduction in operating expenses and 2-3x returns on their service investment in just the first year, with equal or better savings as the work marches on.
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