Planet21 - programme demonstrates the hotel's ambitious goals, based around four strategic priorities: work with its employees, involve its customers, innovate with its partners and work with local communities.
Our commitments:
- be an inclusive company and ensure the welfare of our people
encourage our guests to act as multipliers of the positive effects of our actions
- establish a lasting relationship with our partners, who share our commitments and are working with us to produce innovative solutions that have a positive impact
- work hand-in-hand with local communities, because our commitment does not end at the hotel door
- healthy and sustainable food, with a ban on food waste
- amove towards carbon-neutral buildings
Additionally, we consciously and actively take part in the history of Katowice. We contribute to the green transformation of the city. Leaving
an industrial past behind and welcoming a sustainable and green future. We call it “Green and Clean”.
Name of the company
Mercure Katowice Centrum
Name of the president or managing director
Andrzej Kleeberg
The company ESG reporting mode (short description)
GAIA -AccorHotels Sustainability & Technical Platform.
Hotel can reach 4 leveles of Planet 21
- bronze
- silver
- gold
- platinium
The program is based on tasks in terms of:
- people,
- products,
- services,
- procurment,
- communities,
- F&B
- environment,
- waste
Hotel means completing tasks, scores points and receives a higher status.
Green certificates obtained for the investments developed or purchased by your company
-Platinum LEED certificate in the Building Design and Construction category
-PLGBC Green Building Award 2021 in category: Best Ecological Building 2021 precertified
- MP Power Awards 2021 in category: Green Venue
The company activities in environmental protection
1. Erosion and segmentation plan - The entire construction process has been planned in such a way as to limit the pollution of the natural environment (air, water) with dust generated on the construction site
2. Installation of light concrete and paving stones. White roof membrane with SRI above 78. The building was designed and constructed as a building that saves heat in winter and cold in summer by using the appropriate color of materials - reflecting the radiation.
3. All construction materials contain the recommended amount of recyclable materials.
4. Materials used during construction are of local origin to minimize contamination during transport.
5. The wood used in the construction process is certified by the Chain of Origin of the Product
6. The materials used during construction meet the requirements for limiting the content of Volatile Compounds
7.Two green walls - one of the largest in Katowice - 200 m2 in total (11 thousand plants)
8.Rainwater recovery system used to water the green wall
9.Renewable energy sources - solar farm on the roof
10.Electric car charging stations
11.Water consumption monitoring system in the facility
12.The use of recycled equipment and natural materials in the interior
13.Installation of a white roof membrane and bright paving stones, reflecting the radiation
14.Reduction of plastic consumption (including: glass packaging, collective packaging of bathroom cosmetics)
15. Filtered water served in glass bottles in the hotel restaurant
The company activities in social responsibility
1. Cooperation with local suppliers
2. Cooperation with the local community - implementation of a mural in the hotel lobby, referring to the work created on the occasion of the UN Climate Summit by the artist Mona Tusz
3. A reference in the design, colors and menu card to the regional traditions of Silesia
4. Cooperation with the City Hall in the implementation of the concept of metamorphosis of Katowice from an industrial city to "green"; common actions: e.g. Earth cleaning day
The company activities in the corporate governance issue
1. Equal pay in the same positions regardless of gender or sexual orientation
2. Managerial positions filled on the basis of qualifications, not gender - in our company the number of managerial positions is the same among men and women
3. Caring for the rights to freedom of employees written down in the internal company work regulations
4. Possibility of promotion and raising qualifications as part of development within the company's structures
5. Non-wage benefits enabling access to faster diagnostics and medical care
6. Taking care of well-being and life-balance through access to the gym, thanks to benefits, task-based working time, no overtime, healthy meals provided by the employer during work
7. Compliance with health and safety rules and ethics
8. Established organizational chart of the company
