Witham Hall School

Witham Hall School

Prolite’s latest project has been to design and install a permanent lighting system, optically designed for sports, to illuminate the new 4 court area at Witham Hall school.

Witham Hall is a co-educational day and boarding school situated in Witham on the Hill in Lincolnshire. Set within a stunning Queen Anne mansion and surrounded by parkland and gardens, Witham Hall prides itself in providing a holistic education that enables every child to reach their potential in all areas of their education including on the sports pitches.

The Requirement:

The Ritelite projects team were challenged to specify and install a completely new lighting solution for Witham Hall’s recently built sports complex’s quad tennis court area.

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After a full site evaluation, light modelling and initial site testing it was determined that the specification of the new lighting system needed to be close to the Lawn Tennis Association’s specification for tennis court lighting.

The Solution:

To reach the design brief and achieve the full lighting potential on this sized area the Prolite design team created a new product. The team took an existing light in the Prolite range that has been optically designed for sports and designed and developed new bracketry for this specific installation to minimise glare and light pollution and create instant, even daylight lighting across all 4 courts.

To help minimise disruption to the students education and in preparation for the new term starting in September, the Prolite Projects team took the opportunity to carry out the installation work during the Summer holidays. The installation team liaised with the school’s electrical team to successfully organise cabling required for the installation and installed the floodlights via laser setup guides. The installation work included digging trenches, laying cables and installing bespoke coloured lighting columns to match the schools current fencing and netting hardware.

Luke Graham, Bursar and Sam Willis, Head of Sports are delighted with the results!

“Prolite Projects did an excellent job both in understanding the necessary spec of the project and in advising how to implement the installation as seamlessly as possible. From a myriad of possible options, we felt well guided and, while we deliberated over the various options, their willingness to explore all possible options was invaluable. The result is a highly professional job and a sporting facility that is far beyond what we could have expected.” – Luke O.T. Graham, Bursar

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Bourne Lawn Tennis Club

Bourne Lawn Tennis Club

Bourne Lawn Tennis Club

Bourne Lawn Tennis Club is one of the largest tennis clubs in the area, with over 200 members and spacious facilities including 5 grass courts and three all-weather courts.  Bourne Lawn Tennis Club offers a friendly, thriving club in the peaceful setting of Abbey Lawns in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Open to members of all ages and abilities for social play and competitive tennis, the club recently approached Prolite for assistance with upgrading the current lighting system on the all-weather courts to LED.

The Requirement:

The Prolite projects team were challenged to provide a new LED lighting system that would significantly raise the LUX levels on the courts from current levels. The 15 year old lighting system in place was power hungry metal halide lighting that offered a very low colour rendition and quality of light to the courts. Tracking the ball when in play was proving difficult to the members of the club with concerns raised about the light levels further deteriorating during the coming winter.

Michael Speakman, Bourne Lawn Tennis Club’s Chairman, was passionate about finding a long-term, sustainable, energy-efficient solution that would vastly increase LUX levels on the courts as part of a joint re-surface and painting project to transform the current experience for members.

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After a full site evaluation, light modelling and initial site testing, the Prolite Projects team carefully specified multiple, highly efficient LED Sport lighting products from the Prolite Lamps range to recommend for installation at the site.

These luminaires combine highly efficient, high output LED’s with state-of-the-art asymmetric lensing to prevent both upward light spillage as well as glare on the courts. Light spillage / pollution onto surrounding areas was a concern that had been raised by local residents so the Prolite team addressed this in some detail with local council members to reassure them the result would be satisfactory.

In addition to specifying the new lighting solution for the courts, the Prolite project team also helped the club through the local planning process to enable them to install lights on 1 of the 3 courts that were not currently lit. This was successfully granted and lighting on all 3 of the clubs all-weather courts was signed off to be lit to an LTA standard.

The Solution:

The previous Metal Halide lighting system was replaced on the 2 existing courts and 6 new masts were installed on the one court that previously didn’t have any lighting.

Once the fittings and planning had been approved an installation plan was devised by the Ritelite / Prolite Projects team to help minimise disruption to the club’s operational times. This plan included the critical setup process of the light heads, optimising light levels for the courts ongoing.

The final results met and exceeded expectations. The LUX on the PPA was improved by more than 4x the Metal Halide system and the high quality white light provided creates a much better play environment for players. The unique asymmetrical design has ensured that all the light is focused on the playing surface with very low light spill outside the courts.

The feedback from the club has been fantastic!

‘I would have no hesitation in recommending Prolite. From the moment we first contacted them to the day the job was completed they have acted with total professionalism. We are delighted with the installation on all three of our hard courts and the lighting pattern and light produced from the new floodlights will make it seem as though you are playing tennis in daylight. The job was completed on time and within budget and they were quick to adapt when changes were required. ‘ – Michael Speakman, Chairman

 

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Grimsthorpe Castle’s New Car Park

Grimsthorpe Castle’s New Car Park

Prolite’s New Solar Lights illuminate Grimsthorpe Castle’s new car park ready for the start of the season.

The Requirement:

The Prolite Project team have recently been involved in the design and installation of solar lighting to illuminate the new car park at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire.

During the 2020 season when Grimsthorpe Castle, park and gardens was unable to open due to the Covid-19 pandemic the team at Grimsthorpe worked hard on improving the visitor experience when visiting during the open season. Part of this new plan was to establish a larger car park to support the growing number of visitors that the Castle receives annually as well as events in the Castle’s grounds.

Following the success of the work that Prolite did illuminating the interior and exterior of the castle Grimsthorpe Castle – Prolite Lamps (prolite-lamps.co.uk) the Prolite team was once again consulted for advice on the car park lighting.

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The Solution:

Initially the plan was to install mains powered lighting. However, the costs of doing this were prohibitive, so the Prolite team designed a system of solar powered lighting for the whole car park area using Prolite’s new 15W high efficiency solar light system that produces over 3000 lumens per fitting.

The solar lighting system was installed with beam control optics to minimise light pollution onto the nearby road whilst optimally illuminating the whole car park area. An internet based control system is available to manage the levels of illumination required and the times at which the lights operate. As with all Prolite Projects the team completed a full lighting design of the car part to confirm LUX levels post installation prior to the project going ahead ensuring that the Grimsthorpe Castle management would be happy with the end result.

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This project represents a combination of excellent lighting design combined with new technologies and efficient light sources to create a sustainable, energy efficient lighting system to support Grimsthorpe Castle’s new car park for many years to come.
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Once again the professionals of Prolite considered the problem and produced a cost effective solution incorporating the latest technology and designs which seamlessly fits into a grade 1 listed parkland.
Sebastian St M Miller

Managing Trustee, Grimsthorpe and Drummond Castle Trust

FloraLinc Limited

FloraLinc Limited

Overview:

The client, FloraLinc Limited based in Spalding, UK, are a dedicated transport, logistics and warehousing specialist focusing on horticulture distribution in the UK and EU.

The Requirement:

The client required a renovation to their Spalding site.

This included modernising the current lighting system with a 5-year maintenance free, sustainable solution for their warehouse and despatch areas.

The lights needed to offer an increase in light output whilst at the same time generating high energy savings and a significant reduction to their current maintenance costs associated with their current metal halide fittings.

The Solution:

After a site evaluation with one of our preferred installation partners, the Prolite Project team advised replacing the power hungry 400w metal halide fittings with Prolite’s 150w linear LED bay light fittings.

These fittings offered a “like for like” replacement to the fittings in situ yet increased uniform light levels of over 50% and managed a full project return on investment within 1.5 years for the site on energy alone.

Both the site’s maintenance costs and carbon emissions have also been reduced massively post LED installation.

Emmetts UK

Emmetts UK

EMMETTS UK

Emmett UK is a privately owned farming business that grows vegetables, salads and flowers for some of the UK’s leading supermarkets. They grow more than 95% of the products that they sell, with farms in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Wales and Spain. The company were looking to upgrade the current lighting system in place with high quality LED products throughout the site at Spalding, Lincolnshire.

The Requirement:

The client had a mixture of fluorescent tubes, GU10 halogen lamps, metal halide bay lights and sodium floodlights and were looking to reduce their energy consumption throughout the site to reduce their carbon footprint.
They also had on-going issues with the current light levels within their despatch and production areas which was causing picking and packing errors.

In addition to the lighting circuit’s high energy consumption within the temperature controlled areas, there is also more power consumed by the cooling system to maintain the desired temperature.
This is due to the inefficiency of the metal halide lights producing more waste heat that had to be removed by the refrigeration system.

This is often referred to as the coefficient of performance or COP, please see attached datasheet for full explanation.

Maintenance on the current lighting system was a very expensive task as accessibility to the bay lights was some what reduced by production machinery on site. A product with a lifetime increase was required to reduce this as much as possible.

The Solution:

After a site evaluation, the project specification team advised replacing the current lighting system with a highly efficient lighting system throughout.
The lights installed offered an increase in light levels in critical area’s whilst also reducing the total energy consumption on site by more than 70%.
The team over at Emmetts were very pleased with the results.

 

  • Annual energy saving of £74,954.47
  • Minimised picking and packing errors due to increase in light levels
  • Total energy consumption reduction by more than 70%

Energy Savings

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Energy Savings Per Annum

Total saving per year including COP: £74,954.47

The coefficient of performance or COP (sometimes CP) of a heat pump is a ratio of heating or cooling provided to work required. Higher COPs equate to lower operating costs.

Extra Savings For Refrigerated Environments Explained

When LED lights are used to replace less efficient light sources, typically Metal Halide or SON Lighting, there is an additional saving gained when used in refrigerated environments. Download our free PDF with more information.