At the recent Caribbean Hotel Association Marketplace event, Orlando Arroyo speaks about Tres Ríos and its comittment to sustainable tourism.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xYBDWZA_zC4

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The Riviera Maya Jazz Festival 2007 runs from November 29th to December 1st at Mamitas Beach Club in Playa del Carmen. The event is free and features these world-renowned artists: Marcus Miller, Aguamala, Tower of Power, Los Dorados, George Benson, Sacbe and Luis Conte. For more information visit the official website: http://www.rivieramayajazzfestival.com/

Just over 200 days left to the opening of the Hotel! During the first 55 weeks of work, we have accomplished the following works:

Movement of Land: We cleared the area where the buildings will go up, tilled all of the vegetation removed and made compost to be used in the gardens. All of the pathways and platforms have been created, for which we have used over 50,000 cubic meters of stone. We dredged a canal of 8000 square meters of area that surrounds the central island. We have built two bridges to cross the rivers.

Deep foundation: So far we have built and placed 431 piles, which employed 5172 tons of concrete and 215 tons of steel. With that, we have finished the foundation of the main buildling, Villas Sur, the Sales Office, and the Beach Pool.

Structure: For cleanliness, quality, and innovation, we have opted for a prefabricated structure: all of the pieces are fabricated in a plant outside of Tres Ríos and then transferred to Tres Ríos, where they are assembled. We have 629 already made. This week we will finish the assembly of the structure of the service area, formed by 411 pieces.

Equipment and facilities: We have finished the construction of the water tank. The connection was made with the water main for the Reverse Osmosis Plant. We have completed the 10 wells that are necessary for the operation of the Air Conditioning equipment, reverse osmosis, and the treatment plant. We have already contracted elevators, air conditioning, and the waste water treatment plant.

Sample room: The first sample room has been finished and a sample “flexivilla” will be ready in the end of October.

Gardening: All of the edges of the roads and pathways have been cleaned and the reforestation process is underway. The Tres Ríos Greenhouse is already reproducing and growing plants that will be used to plant the 135,000 ft2 of gardens that Hacienda Tres Ríos will have.

Sincerely,

Ing. Diego Arroyo Cetto
Director of Development

Hello and welcome!

In the Environmental Blog we will be talking about some of the principal activities that we’re carrying out in the environmental area of Tres Ríos Development in general, and particularly in the Hotel Hacienda Tres Ríos. Construction is in full swing, so the actions of the Environmental Supervisión are permanent.

As you will surely remember, Tres Ríos initially opened its doors to the public as an eco-park, which will re-open in 2008 exclusively for the guests of the future hotels in the development, starting with the first one, Hacienda Tres Ríos.

Hacienda Tres Ríos inherits the same commitment to the environment as Tres Ríos park and therefore establishes itself as a sustainable turistic development seeking to guarantee the intelligent, lasting, and responsible use of our natural resources in order to offer high-quality environmental turistic experiences to our future visitors (Tres Ríos Ecology Mission).

The environmental work was started years ago. From the first studies and characterization of the environment made at the end of the 90’s to the most recent studies done with aerial photography and digital geo-reference, we have firmly maintained our promise to ground our development devoted to objective criteria and based in solid scientific evidence.

In this way, we have traced a Route of Planning and Environmental Management with a great variety of activities of protection and care of the environment and the natural resources present in Tres Ríos.

From the planning stages to actual operation, passing obviously through the construction phase, the Environmental Supervision implements 7 programs and 20 subprograms for the Environmental Management System that attend to the integral handling of Duch Fundamentals as flora, fauna, waste management, supervision of the environment, etcetera.

This space on our web page has opened to keep you informed of the latest advances/updates of these activities. We hope you enjoy forthcoming additions to this blog!

Kindest regards,

Gabriel Santoyo
Environmental Officer