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Mint Hotel Amsterdam

This is a project by Bennetts Associates Architects and it is located at Eastern Dock Island, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Project's program: 533 bedroom hotel. There are twenty images for Mint Hotel Amsterdam.

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Project details

Project name: Mint Hotel Amsterdam
Location: Eastern Dock Island, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Program: 533 bedroom hotel
Area: Project Area: 28,000 m2
Year: Project Year: 2005-2011
More details: Budget: 42 Million Euros
Client: Mint Hotel Group
Project by: Bennetts Associates Architects
Others: Executive Architect: BDG Architecten • Interior Design Architect: M+R Interieurarchitecten, Bennetts Associates Architects • Structural Engineer and Project Manager: Arcadis • Services Engineer: AECOM, Deerns • Landscape Architects: Jenkins + Clarke, Niek Roozen • Building, Fire and Acoustics Engineer: Peutz • Cost Consultant: Arcadis PRC • Developer: New Chinatown Amsterdam, MAB Development • Contractor: Strukton Civiel Projecten

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Designer's statement

Sustainability:

The brief required the highest sustainability credentials so Bennetts Associates and Mint Hotel worked closely with engineers AECOM, Deerns and Peutz to significantly reduce energy consumption throughout the design and post completion stages of the project.

All aspects of the design process were interrogated and the following passive sustainability measures were incorporated:

High thermal criteria to external facades
Low-e glazing
Green roofs
External motorised solar shading to fully glazed south and west facing bedrooms
Motorised external blinds and cantilevered solar shading to meeting rooms and the rooftop SkyLounge

Mint Hotel brand requirements also reduced energy use, including:

Opening windows, full height glazing and mass concrete walls to all bedrooms
Flow restrictors to taps, showers and dual flush toilets
Passive infrared sensors for staff lighting and all public area and staff sanitaryware

Low energy equipment was then incorporated including:

High efficiency condensing boilers
The hotel is part of a new island-wide combined heating system using closed loop boreholes
Low energy chillers
Full heat recovery on air systems
Variable speed drives to pumps and fans.

Throughout the construction process subcontracts were encouraged to reduce energy in transportation / embodied energy and waste. This allowed the selection of all materials to be limited to North Europe including:

Cladding from Belgium
Bedroom casegoods from Ireland and public area fixed furniture from The Netherlands
Bedroom and public area sofas and chairs from UK and The Netherlands
Carpets from UK and The Netherlands
Planting from The Netherlands
Public area lighting from Belgium and The Netherlands

Overall energy consumption is significantly better per bedroom than the Excellent standard for a hotel of this category whilst maintaining the high quality of design expected by Mint Hotel.