Being eco means reducing energy used !
Tommy's Place is hoping that others can see what we are doing and can copy it for their own residences or other resort business owners too.
We hope every resort and hotels will do it and we can reduce hydrocarbon buring by many factors.
All guests are free to walk around the whole land to see how we achieve it.
In addition to having chlorine free water (good for your skin) we also save the enviroment.
Picture 1.
Note the filters at the top of tank to filter first the rain water.
Picture 2.
Second stage of sand filter.
Opening Ceremony by MOSTI
(Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovative)
* At this picture, you may spot the beautiful seaview
1st August 2015
Tommy's Place is up for 5 years, however every year the plastic wastage is not reducing but increasing not only from our side. Neighbourhood beach coastal are frequantly full of rubbish specially plastic bottles and cans.
Our lovely guest always so helpful to clean our beach while they supposed to lay down and relax do nothing.
We hereby hope to reduce more plastic bottles! At our reception there's a triple filtered head for 3 different temperature water:- Hot, Room temperature and Cold is the most important during the hot day.
You can bring your own bottle or purchase a 1.5Liter mineral water from us at RM 5.00. Why so high? We want others to appreciate it and reuse it. From each bottle we sell, we will donate the RM 1.00 each bottle to the Local community and beach cleaning event.
Your cooperation is highly appreciated!! RECYCLE!!!
Picture below is our lovely guest help collecting rubbish from the beach.
Some facts about plastic bottles.
A resort like ours uses a huge amount of water.
Example, guests washing off the saltwater and sand when they get off from the beach.
Our kitchen uses large amounts of water to wash the plates.
House keeping uses a lot of water to clean toilets and the rooms etc, etc and the list goes on.
A little bit of planning can put this energy waste to zero.
The solution lies in rainwater!
The northern tip of Sabah has zero air pollution rising from factory and power plant generation as power is transported via grid from the south.
A very cheap solution is to harvest rainwater using two huge water tanks.
The rainwater is then passed thru two sand filters. Also a special filter is fitted at the entrance to the tanks so that leaves and insects do not come in with the rainwater.
Due to our huge water usage the rainwater is constanly recycled.
The piped water from the water works is used as a backup when it doesn't rain enough.
Cholorinated piped treated water is used once every two months to disinfect and clean the tanks inside out.
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Figure 1.
Eco-wing construction and the villa construction uses double-roofing.
Note the hole in between the roofs.
Double roofing essentially means adding another roof !
In this tropical climate where average temperature is 30 celcius.
A normal house will store this huge amount of enery and release it at night, so the room becomes hot and occupants have to use air conditioner during the night.
Air-con uses the highest kilowatt hour consumption.
The double-roofing solution is simple and efffective in addition to doubly prevent rainwater leaks too.
Our Eco-wing is cool at night and with the mosquito netting, most of our customers chose to use the fan only at night.
Come and try it out!
These are cheap solutions without having to spend a ton of money on solar panels and everyone can do !
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