Daily Archives: June 3, 2013

New Housekeeping Demo Lab at Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School

Students at the School practice making up rooms in the housekeeping new demo lab

It’s great to finally see a Hospitality School get serious about designing and installing a housekeeping demonstration laboratory where students can learn what the realities of housekeeping are.

The new demo lab at the Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School (BMIHMS) has all the bells and whistles.

It took 6 months from first inception till it was completed in November 2013 and incorporates the following:

• A state-of-the-art bedroom space with a split king, allowing students to participate in demonstrations of different bed making methods and styles, and bedroom detailing.
• Purpose built bathroom, which has 5 different sizes of tiles and surfaces with 3 different coloured grouts, 2 styles of vanity atop a marble benched polyurethane cabinet. These variations enable demonstration of all cleaning requirements. The bathroom completely opens out into the room so demonstrations are easily visible to the group of up to 20 students.
• The bedroom area has 4 different carpets, 2 of which are tiles, along with 3 different wood surfaces including bamboo.
• The cube shaped seats for students also use a variety of upholstered materials, so that students can view wear and tear and address cleaning issues.
• Wall surfaces include framed textured wallpapers that form part of the décor along with painted surfaces.
• The area also has a mini housekeeping storeroom that is built from laminate, this stores the housekeeping trolley along with various pillow types, linen and also a porta cot. There is a desk and wardrobe area, which was built using a veneer timber. This stores a rollaway bed.
• The room features all the guest supplies and amenities one would expect in a hotel room

The room was designed and put together by Liz Boyd, Design Consultant in conjunction with BMIHMS Executive Housekeeper Vicky Jakus. Its purpose is to reflect the diversity of surfaces found in a typical hotel room so as to enable our students to learn the entire operations of the housekeeping department of a 5 Star hotel.

Students undertaking the Bachelor of International Hotel and Resort Management and Master of International Hotel Management degrees use the facilities. Their aim is to graduate with business degrees and progress to management positions with acute knowledge of hotel operations.

Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School  is very proud of their latest addition to their learning spaces and wish to thank all the suppliers who contributed to this project.