The GoGreen home page is designed to give a quick overview of how the team is progressing toward environmental and sustainability targets, and whether they are adopting best practices. It also provides you with navigation points to the GoGreen...
What is weather normalization? Weather normalization in the hotel industry is a process used to adjust and standardize performance metrics, such as energy consumption, to account for variations in weather conditions. This allows hotels to...
What is weather normalization? Weather normalization in the hotel industry is a process used to adjust and standardize performance metrics, such as energy consumption, to account for variations in weather conditions. This allows hotels to...
How is the target calculated? The target is set in the Goal distribution tool module. The sustainability manager for your chain will assign each property a consumption reduction percentage per resource, and will set the date by when it needs to be...
How to make a manual entryFor cockpits that require a manual entry, select button ‘Add consumption’ to add, update or correct consumption values. Click the question mark on the screen for more details on how to fill out the data. You can change or...
Each month, a new forecast should be submitted for the coming months. This can be done via the Planning pages in PMI. There are 3 simple steps to this process which should be done by the controller or GM. Step 1: Set up a plan Go to Planning...
What are the targets in GoGreen?Green cockpits and planning pages show the monthly target consumption values for all resources compared to forecast values. These monthly targets are set for each property to help them meet their long-term...
GoGreen is now a benchmarking option in the regular benchmarking page in PMI. This feature gives you the opportunity to see how you are managing your environmental resources compared to the forecast, as well as your peers, and helps to keep you on...
The table below explains the calculations used for each of the measurements that make up the GoGreen index. Each action has a different weighting, according to how crucial it is. The more crucial an action is, the greater impact it will have on a...
What is the purpose of GoGreen index? GoGreen adoption index is designed to be a learning and development tool for help improve the skills and adopt best practices around environmental and sustainability management.What does GoGreen index measure?...
What is sense check mode? Sense check is a feature to help minimize errors in your data. It highlights obvious errors and values that seem extreme so you can review, correct or validate as needed. Sense check appears as an option on pages in...
What is GoGreen Planning? Planning is a new module that initially supports the GoGreen cockpits with financial elements for environmental targets. This module is prepopulated using the latest Live Forecast and estimates based on historical...
What is GoGreen planning? Planning is a new module that initially supports the GoGreen cockpits with financial elements for environmental targets. This module is prepopulated using the latest Live forecast and estimates based on historical...
What is the GoGreen Cockpit? The GoGreen Cockpit is where users can record, monitor and manage the environmental resource consumption for their property. Resources include Energy, Chemicals, Food waste, Water, Waste and Towels & Linens. The...
See below for external links that provide additional insights into how to reduce consumption and effectively manage your environmental resources. Activities to reduce consumption: EU best practice Peak time demand management:...
Example used is kWh from GoGreen. This shows the quantity of each resource we expect to use. The values come from the Live Forecast when this plan was first created. It’s fair to say that the values may differ in Live Forecast today, that’s why...
Example used is Energy. This shows an estimated average price for each month in the plan and is combined with the usage (multiplied) to get the values. You can edit these prices as required. You can see there is added a price of 1 for gas in most...
The ‘Save changes’ button will ensure your changes are saved for next time you or anyone else comes back to this plan. At this stage the values only exist in this view. In order to make the plan values (cost of energy and estimated unit...
Example used is Energy. This first section in the data table is the plan (budget) numbers in the currency shown in the header. It displays in thousands (K) and in the local currency.These values cannot be edited directly. They reflect values in the...
Example used is Towels & linen Use this chart to see at a glance the general shape of your plan (blue bars) against the comparative period (gray) as pre-set and the level of guest nights planned (purple line). This enables you to see if the...
The charts below (Towels & linen and Energy are used in this example), displays whether your plan shows year-on-year (YoY) improvement, considering the activity levels. The plan values for each month are divided by a relevant productivity...
The diagram below shows the correlation between the formula elements which calculates the unit price to get the plan value you expect.In the diagram here below the forecast comes from kg from GoGreen multiplied by price per kg. Always ensure you...
What is comparative data? It is a set of data that you compare your draft plan against. The dataset shown under comparative data is also used to calculate other elements of your new plan. Look for … ‘based on comparative data’… in a section...
Example used is Towels & linen. This is the traditional view of a budget with numbers by month. We have included a total column showing the sum of all months in the plan (which could be anything between 6 & 18 months). The column...
What is Planning? Planning version setup is where you create draft budgets and forecasts for GoGreen, Room revenue, and Labor costs. PMI prepopulates this plan using the latest Live forecast and estimates based on historical financial (P&L)...
What is the purpose of GoGreen learning page? GoGreen learning is an analysis tool which highlights how effective you have been in environmental and sustainability management. You can review resource consumption compared to previous periods and...