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Community News: The Palazzo® Las Vegas Presents Encore of Award-Winning Fall Into Sands ECO360°Atrium Display
In celebration of autumn, The Palazzo Las Vegas will feature an encore of its award-winning atrium display Fall Into Sands ECO360°, an innovative and entertaining display featuring the industry-leading sustainability efforts of The Venetian and The Palazzo.
The visually spectacular and eco-minded fall display fills The Palazzo Waterfall Atrium and Gardens. The picturesque scene, on display through Nov. 10, honors the Sands ECO360°program, a strategy that was born at The Venetian and The Palazzo and drives the company’s environmental initiatives.
The encore display also celebrates the 2014 Diamond Plantscape Award from the Plantscape Institute of America (PIA), which was awarded in honor of the original 2013 Fall Into ECO 360° installation. The annual awards program recognizes and celebrates excellence in the interiorscape community, including commercial enterprises with in-house horticulture departments and conservatory venues. Interior plantscaping is the practice of designing, installing, and caring for living plants in enclosed environments, including commercial and residential buildings.
“We are excited to be recognized this way by our peers,” said Dana Beatty, director of floral and horticulture at The Venetian and The Palazzo. “Our vision was to provide a well-designed installation that showcases the resorts’ sustainability efforts and creates an environment for an enhanced guest experience.”
Surrounded by fall colors in the foliage of native trees, flowers, and plants, this season’s display reuses materials found on the property to reflect some of the environmentally-friendly programs :
- Greener Suites:
The Infinity Pond features a bed made of cut flowers, succulents, and grasses representing the stunning suites of The Venetian and The Palazzo, each designed with high performance and sustainable functionality in mind. Energy-efficient lighting is installed in all of the suites – 50 percent of which is the latest LED technology. More than 3,000 sensors are installed in The Palazzo suites to adjust the temperature automatically according to guest occupancy. These suites also feature a master light switch, enabling guests to conveniently turn off all lights when leaving. Guests can also participate in sustainability efforts by choosing to reuse towels and linens through the Eco Linen program.
- Sustainable Food and Composting:
The Recycled Forest made of construction debris, 70 percent recycled steel, bottles, wine corks, and soaps represents the range of the properties’ sustainable catering menu options, including organic and local food, sustainable seafood, fair-trade coffee. The composting program at the resort launched in 2012.
- Alternative Transportation:
The 1934 Hudson car centerpiece was transformed using succulents, lichen, moss, grapevine, and approximately 5,000 drought resistant plants. This centerpiece represents the properties’ alternative transportation programs. RTC’s ClubRide rewards commuters for carpooling, biking, or taking public transportation to get to and from work. A valet bicycle parking service with secure bike racks is provided. Preferred parking for hybrids, alternative fuel vehicles, and carpools is available in both garages. The properties also provide Electric Vehicle charging stations and three Tesla-specific charging stations for employee and public use.
- Water Conservation:
The East Garden Nano filtration system display represents the properties’ water reclamation system that recycles 5 million gallons of nuisance water a year for horticulture use. This system saves millions of gallons of potable water each year, allowing the properties to be “off the water grid” for horticultural needs, and has recently been expanded to be used for filling feature fountains and external cleaning.
- Recycling:
The West Bed Chocolate Cosmo Flower display, made of motion-censored flowers opening and closing in harmony, represents structure coexisting with nature. The Venetian and The Palazzo are known as one of the largest recyclers in Las Vegas, recycling not only food, cardboard, glass, plastic, paper, and metal, but also batteries, electronic waste, corks, cooking oil, and many other commodities. A recent dock remodel and improvements in the internal recycling procedures – such as implementing more upstream sorting practices – has improved The Venetian and The Palazzo’s recycling rate, including a unique profit-sharing incentive program that rewards recycling dock employees for increasing the recycling rate.
Recently, the meetings complex that includes Sands Expo and the Congress Center at The Venetian and The Palazzo Las Vegas further redefined itself as a true industry leader by being named the first venue in the world to achieve the advanced “level two” industry certification for environmentally sustainable meetings, events, trade shows and conferences. The Palazzo’s Fall Atrium display celebrates The Venetian and The Palazzo’s continued sustainability efforts and green milestones.
