Answer Guided Questions
Document occupancy, guest-room operations, amenities, maintenance, comfort concerns, completed work, and capital plans.
EcoAudit® HLY is a guided hotel energy audit and hospitality energy assessment for existing hotels, resorts, motels, extended-stay properties, boutique hotels, convention hotels, and lodging portfolios.
Owners, operators, engineering teams, and facility personnel answer guided questions, upload utility bills, photograph systems and building conditions, document occupancy patterns and completed improvements, and submit supporting records from a smartphone, laptop, or desktop computer.
EcoPlatform™ applies Contract-First Architecture, building science, engineering expertise, and deterministic analysis to compare the documented property against its engineering baseline, determine where building performance has diverged, and prioritize improvements that reduce energy use, lower operating costs, improve guest comfort, and strengthen long-term asset value.
Hospitality properties combine guest rooms, public spaces, kitchens, laundry, pools, spas, meeting rooms, central plants, high domestic-hot-water loads, variable occupancy, and continuous comfort expectations. EcoAudit® HLY organizes that complexity into one consistent assessment process.
Document occupancy, guest-room operations, amenities, maintenance, comfort concerns, completed work, and capital plans.
Provide electricity, gas, water, demand, seasonal trends, occupancy relationships, and unusual operating-cost changes.
Capture guest rooms, PTACs, VRF, central plants, kitchens, laundry, hot water, ventilation, lighting, pools, and controls.
EcoPlatform™ prioritizes improvements according to energy impact, guest comfort, operating cost, asset value, and readiness.
Traditional hospitality energy audits begin by sending a technician to gather information hotel personnel already know. EcoAudit® reverses that process and embeds engineering knowledge in EcoPlatform™.
| Traditional Hospitality Energy Audit | EcoAudit® HLY |
|---|---|
| A technician collects property information. | Hotel personnel provide information they already know through a guided assessment. |
| The process begins with a general site visit. | The process begins on a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. |
| The auditor decides where energy may be lost. | EcoPlatform™ compares the documented property against its engineering baseline and determines where performance has diverged. |
| Results are delivered in a static report. | Results become part of a Living Building Record that continues to grow. |
| A future audit starts over. | Future hotel energy assessments begin with documented systems, utility history, occupancy patterns, projects, and completed work. |
The protocol evaluates the property as an operating system—not as a collection of unrelated equipment.
Electricity, gas, water, demand, energy use intensity, occupancy relationships, seasonal trends, and portfolio comparisons.
PTACs, heat pumps, VRF, thermostats, windows, doors, infiltration, ventilation, lighting, plug loads, comfort, and complaints.
Lobbies, ballrooms, meeting rooms, event loads, elevators, escalators, lighting, ventilation, controls, and comfort.
Roofs, walls, windows, doors, guest-room boundaries, insulation, air leakage, penetrations, moisture, and solar exposure.
PTACs, heat pumps, VRF, boilers, chillers, cooling towers, pumps, fans, ventilation, controls, and replacement readiness.
Guest-room demand, kitchens, laundry, pools, spas, storage, recirculation, controls, insulation, fixtures, and electrification.
Cooking, refrigeration, exhaust, make-up air, laundry equipment, steam, dishwashing, vending, and other process loads.
Pool heating, pumping, dehumidification, spas, fitness areas, recreation, outdoor spaces, and amenity schedules.
BAS, guest-room controls, scheduling, alarms, backup power, solar, storage, electrification, projects, warranties, and inspections.
EcoAudit® simplifies hotel and hospitality energy audits. EcoPlatform™ determines where performance has diverged from the property's engineering baseline and prioritizes improvements. RetroCore™ carries approved work from scope development through completion and documentation.
Capture property, utility, guest-room, equipment, operations, comfort, amenities, maintenance, and completed-work information.
Compare operating costs, guest concerns, occupancy patterns, asset needs, incentives, dependencies, and implementation readiness.
Build implementation-ready scopes, coordinate qualified resources, document completed work, and update the property record.
Assessments, utility history, systems, occupancy patterns, recommendations, inspections, capital projects, and completed improvements remain connected to the property.
EcoAudit® HLY was developed by Apollo Energies, a BPI Gold Star Contractor with an 18-year company history, and is informed by more than 60 years of combined real-world experience.
RetroCore™ moves approved recommendations into implementation-ready scopes, qualified project resources, guest-sensitive coordination, inspection, documentation, and completed-work records.
Learn how EcoAudit®, EcoPlatform™, and RetroCore™ replace the traditional information-gathering visit, prioritize improvements, and create a Living Building Record.
A hotel energy audit systematically evaluates how a lodging property uses energy across guest rooms, corridors, public areas, kitchens, laundry, domestic hot water, HVAC, central plants, lighting, controls, pools, spas, meeting spaces, and other hospitality operations. The goal is to reduce operating costs, improve guest comfort, strengthen building performance, and support capital planning.
Hotel owners, operators, engineering teams, facility personnel, and property managers complete a guided assessment from a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. They answer property-specific questions, upload utility bills, photograph systems and conditions, document occupancy patterns and completed improvements, and identify comfort, maintenance, controls, and operating concerns. EcoPlatform™ compares the documented property against its engineering baseline, determines where performance has diverged, and prioritizes improvements.
EcoAudit® HLY can support hotels, motels, resorts, extended-stay properties, boutique hotels, convention hotels, casino hotels, historic hotels, mixed-use hospitality properties, branded portfolios, independent properties, and multi-property lodging portfolios.
Yes. EcoAudit® HLY was designed to replace the traditional information-gathering visit. The people who know the property best submit utility bills, photographs, equipment information, occupancy patterns, operating conditions, completed improvements, and facility concerns through a guided assessment. Specialized testing is targeted only when a defined technical question requires a measurement.
A hospitality energy assessment can evaluate utility use, energy use intensity, guest rooms, corridors, lobbies, meeting rooms, kitchens, laundry, domestic hot water, pools, spas, building envelopes, PTACs, heat pumps, VRF, central plants, ventilation, exhaust, lighting, controls, plug loads, resilience, renewable energy, and completed improvements.
Yes. EcoAudit® HLY can support one hotel, a resort campus, or a regional or national hospitality portfolio. Each property maintains its own Living Building Record while owners and operators use a consistent energy assessment methodology across the portfolio.
EcoAudit® can organize information relevant to potential Section 179D opportunities and other commercial-building energy incentives. Eligibility depends on the property, project, placed-in-service date, certification pathway, wage requirements, and current program rules.
The time required depends on property size, guest-room count, number of buildings, central systems, utility accounts, food service, laundry, pools, meeting spaces, controls, and available records. EcoAudit® eliminates the traditional technician-led information-gathering visit and lets the hotel team complete the guided assessment in manageable stages.
The assessment may use property details, guest-room count, occupancy patterns, operating schedules, utility bills, equipment data, control sequences, photographs, maintenance concerns, guest comfort complaints, capital plans, food-service and laundry information, and records of completed improvements.
Yes. EcoAudit® HLY was designed for active and occupied hospitality properties. The guided process allows hotel teams to document representative guest rooms, public areas, systems, controls, operating concerns, and completed improvements while minimizing disruption to guests and operations.
The submitted information becomes part of EcoPlatform™, where improvements are prioritized according to energy performance, operating cost, guest comfort, asset value, incentives, project dependencies, and implementation readiness. Approved work can move into RetroCore™ for scope development, coordination, implementation, inspection, documentation, and addition to the property's Living Building Record.
Completed projects become part of the property's permanent Living Building Record. Equipment replacements, guest-room upgrades, envelope improvements, HVAC and controls work, lighting, domestic hot water, utility history, inspections, warranties, costs, incentive records, and verification remain connected to the property so future assessments and capital decisions begin with an accurate history.
Answer guided questions, upload utility information, take photographs, and give Apollo Energies the information needed to begin a professional hotel energy assessment.