A associated determination of the Ministry of Tourism and the General Directorate of Environmental Policy of the Ministry of Environment and Energy approved the instauration of a Complex Tourist Accommodation, covering an country of 249,401.87 sq m. successful Plaka, Elounda, by the institution PHAEA HOTEL AND TOURIST ENTERPRISES S.A.
The Complex Tourist Accommodation includes 2 five-star hotels with a full capableness of 461 beds and successful peculiar the existing Blue Palace edifice analyzable with a capableness of 452 beds, with a caller capableness of 348 beds and the existing edifice analyzable of furnished apartments (bungalows) with 99 beds (formerly "Argo") with a caller capableness of 113 beds.
It besides includes 44 Tourist Furnished Residences with a full capableness of 170 beds, a revitalization halfway (spa) with a capableness of 70 radical arsenic a Special Tourist Infrastructure Facility of the Complex Tourist Accommodation, and a revitalization halfway (spa) with a capableness of 30 radical arsenic an further peculiar tourer infrastructure facility.
The vigor needs of the task are chiefly covered by the existing PPC energy proviso network. Part of the project's vigor needs are covered by the usage of LPG (mainly for the cognition of laundries and kitchens).
In bid to lend to the vigor equilibrium and screen portion of the vigor requirements of the development, it is planned to instal and run a photovoltaic vigor accumulation system, with a capableness of 999.9 kWp interconnected to the mean voltage network.
In each buildings, the existing aerial conditioning systems and networks volition beryllium dismantled and caller ones volition beryllium installed. In residential buildings, the systems volition beryllium of the vigor pump type, multi-split, with adaptable refrigerant travel and recovery.
For Tourist Residences, a vigor pump-tank volition beryllium connected to the supra strategy for the accumulation of blistery h2o for usage and organisation to the underfloor heating circuits. The irrigation needs of the Complex Tourist Accommodation magnitude to 102,521 m³ and volition beryllium covered chiefly by the treated wastewater of the edifice portion (73,787 m³), while for the remaining uses, desalinated h2o from the boreholes volition beryllium used.
In bid to support and item the elements of the taste heritage, it is planned, among different things, to sphere the cobblestones connected the occidental broadside of the spot and perchance successful different locations, wherever their remains are identified, by cleaning, repairing, opening the wooded oregon blocked sections, truthful arsenic to reconstruct their continuity and enactment them into usage arsenic walking paths.
When forming roads for vehicles, it is planned not to impact the cobblestones, but to make a caller roadworthy parallel to them. It is besides noted that nary alteration oregon harm should beryllium caused to the World War II weapon emplacement located connected the broadside of the Agios Nikolaos - Elounda provincial road.