1300 Houston St., Fort Worth TX
Our third stop was the Omni Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas. Mike Davis, Assistant Director of Engineering led us on our tour. He showed us the engineering section, where Mike showed us a control program that is used to monitor activity in the hotel. It send alerts to notify engineering if there are any issues with the controls on the heating and cooling throughout the hotel. They try to stay within a 10 degree temperature range to keep energy cost under control. By getting alerted immediately to any faults in the system, they are able to control energy loss and maintain a confortable atmosphere for their many guest.
We also visited their Chiller Room. The chiller room piping system catches all the water flow throughout the hotel. They are 3 chillers and cooler towers which utilize hydro-electric controls that are on timers. 
The Omni also had a wonderful roof top garden. The entire roof area was covered by rows of a variety of plants. Also hidden to one side was a private vegetable garden that was started by the Hotel Chefs.
The chefs enjoy being able to grow their own fresh herbs and vegetables and the hotel gets the benefit of having a green use for what would be normally a empty concrete roof. The possibility that this roof top garden may also be cutting energy cost by keeping the roof cooler has not even been truelly examined
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