{"id":631,"date":"2010-10-16T15:28:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T07:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sepiadesign.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:50:11","slug":"schmidt-moderates-hotel-renovation-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/schmidt-moderates-hotel-renovation-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt Moderates Hotel Renovation Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!--:en--><strong><strong>Hong Kong, 16 October 2010 <\/strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Thomas Schmidt<\/strong>, AIA, LEED AP of <em>Sepia Design Consultants Limited <\/em>moderated an interactive panel discussion entitled <em>&#8220;What&#8217;s Old Is New Again:&nbsp; Renovation \/ Repositioning Strategies&#8221; <\/em>at the 21st Annual <em>Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific (HICAP)<\/em> on Friday, 15 October 2010 at the <em>InterContinental Hong Kong<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session featured three case studies of successful hotel renovations.  The recent renovation of the <strong>Fairmont Peace Hotel Shanghai<\/strong> was presented by James Kaplan of <em>Fairmont Raffles International<\/em>.  This was followed by a presentation of the renovation of the <strong>DoubleTree Kuala Lumpur<\/strong> by Guy Phillips of <em>Hilton Worldwide<\/em>.  The session concluded with the repositioning of the<strong> Park Hotel Group<\/strong> brand and properties, presented by Allen Law of <em>Park Hotel Group<\/em>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overview of the three case studies was rounded out with a discussion of common renovation challenges from an architect&#8217;s perspective by Soh Leen How of<em> SRSS<\/em>, followed by discussion by audience members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Asia&#8217;s largest and longest running hotel investment event, HICAP has become the most important gathering of hotel investors, financiers, and leading industry professionals in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/span>\u00a0 Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP <\/strong>is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\"><strong>Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/strong><\/a>, an award-winning design consultancy specializing in creative and sustainable design solutions for the hospitality industry.\u00a0 Schmidt is also author and illustrator of the award-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kakibubu.com\"><em>Bumbling Traveller Adventure Series<\/em><\/a> which seeks to promote environmental and cultural awareness through entertaining mysteries and adventures.<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong, 16 October 2010 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP of Sepia Design Consultants Limited moderated an interactive panel discussion entitled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,6,61],"tags":[76,52,97,56,19],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotel-design","category-news","category-sustainability","tag-hicap","tag-hotel-design","tag-hotel-renovation","tag-sepia-design-consultants-limited","tag-thomas-schmidt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgwalJ-ab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}