HAYMARKET MEDIA
In early 2008 our UK based sister company were approached by London-based publishing house Haymarket Media Group who were looking to take further steps to increase their energy efficiency, reduce their carbon footprint and significantly cut energy costs.
In 2005 Haymarket became the first major publisher to attain ISO 14001 accreditation. The company is committed to reducing its impact on the environment and continues to implement a series of environmental initiatives across its buildings.
After investigating our range of sustainable LED lighting, Haymarket replaced their existing halogen lights with the Antares lamps and added PIRs in the corridors, lavatories and recreation zones in their Teddington office. Immediately they decreased energy use in these areas by 90% and reduced their footprint by 74 carbon tonnes per anum, whilst saving themselves in excess of $60,000 in electricity costs each year.
Haymarket’s Sustainability Manager, Nathan McLean, worked with us on a design scheme to install over 500 LED lamps across its key commercial premises, said: “We explored a number of lighting options and settled on the LEDs proposed because they provide the right amount of light – much more light than we could find from other LEDs – and also offer excellent environmental benefits. These LEDs are some of the best available. The Antares range uses 45 watts less energy per hour than our existing halogen down-lighters and, while there is a marginal reduction in the amount of light emitted, they have proved to be very effective in the areas in which we are using them. An additional benefit is that the new lights continue to be complimented by Haymarket staff.”
“At EO Lighting this is exactly what we wanted to hear” and proves that in most cases the lighting quality is no longer an issue. There are those who notice the difference and slight fall off in luminosity that the LED lamps give but are impressed by the energy savings, and there are those who don’t notice the change at all. At EO Lighting we have to say that the latter is a much greater compliment, as it confirms that LED lamps are comparable to existing lighting technologies. Congratulations to Haymarket Media for proving that one of the UKs leading businesses can find a quick and easy route to reducing their energy costs and carbon emissions.”
BLUNSDON HOUSE HOTEL –
Successful major LED re-fit
Back in late 2008, our UK company approached the management of Blunsdon House Hotel, a 4 star premier Best Western hotel with a proposition to reduce their energy costs by installing the Antares LED downlights in place of the existing standard halogen downlighters.
Excited by the prospect of the savings in energy, labour and maintenance costs, our proposal was accepted by the Facilities Manager and his team who put the proposition to the hotel owner, John Clifford. Following a presentation by our team which set out the full savings potential and carbon offset program, an area of the hotel comprising 17 ground floor bedrooms, corridors and a beauty parlor was identified as a suitable area for a trial.
Energy consumption within this area was measured over a month-long period while the halogens were still installed. At the end of the month 192 of the original 35W halogens in the bedrooms, bathrooms and corridors were replaced with the 4W Antares .
The energy consumption was then re-measured over the following month whist taking the variation in occupancy rates into account the hotel immediately saw energy consumption reduce by 75% in this area. If rolled out throughout the whole hotel complex, the management would see a total running cost saving of more than $25 per lamp per year and an overall energy saving of $38,000 pa.
Customers and members of staff, despite being prompted, noticed no differences in the light levels, light colour or light intensity during this period. The only comment was from the head of Steve Day’s operations team, who wondered whether his job was still safe. He was not required to change any bulbs on that floor during the month long period – something that he had never encountered previously. The Antares lamps were subsequently rolled out throughout the rest of the hotel area by area.
LIGHTING ASSOCIATION –
94% energy reductions
In January 2008, an energy consumption analysis was carried out by Steve Poole,the senior Lab Manager at the laboratories of The Lighting Association the leading trade organisation for the UK lighting sector.
The test consisted of measuring the energy consumed by 20 of the 4W Antares warm white downlighter LED lamps switched on for a full week (172 hours) as compared to the energy consumed by 20 standard 35W warm white halogen down-lighter lamps from a well-known European manufacturing company, over that same period.
Theoretically the LED downlighters (4W) should run off 89% of the energy required to run the halogens (35W). The results were overwhelming,the analysis demonstrated that the total energy consumed by the LED Antares downlighters during that period was 7.33 kWh; while the energy consumed by the halogen downlighters was 130.82 kWh. The LED lights actually consumed 94% less electricity than the halogens over this seven-day period.
The tests proved conclusively the reason for this positive discrepancy. Under formal test conditions, it was demonstrated that the led 4W Antares GU10 downlighters actually drew only 3.7W each whilst the well-known branded halogen downlighters, clearly specified as 35W, actually drew 36.6W each. Although minor, these individual differences in wattage resulted in a significant extra saving in favour of the LED lamps.
BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT– Showing the way forward
In May 2008, the Visitor Centre at the Building Research Establishment (BRE) Innovation Park in London was officially opened by Iain Gray, Chief Executive of the Technology Strategy Board. The Visitor Centre is a showcase of a range of innovative designs and technologies for the building industry.
The building itself is an innovative re-working of an earlier house built there in 2003 and now embraces all notions of sustainability including low-energy lighting.
Working alongside the BRE, we have supplied all the lights within the Visitor Centre which is open to individuals and organisations for conferences and product launches. The centre has already attracted tens of thousands of visitors and formed the centre piece for the OFFSITE 2008 exhibition where the first zero carbon house was unveiled.
“We understand that this has been a stimulating and exciting opportunity for us at to work with some of the most advanced technologies in the building trade at the moment. We hope that the sustainable lighting systems clearly demonstrate the advanced state we have already reached with LED lighting and that it will help open the eyes of the whole building sector towards a wider understanding of the cost-saving and carbon reduction opportunities it offers.
The whole of the main conference and demonstration area of the Visitor Centre is now lit using 165 Watts of energy, less than two standard bulbs worth – helping to reduce the electricity consumed by the lighting within the building by over 70%.”
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