Key Publishing

by James Scott | Feb 21, 2021

Key Publishing

Prolite refits Key Publishing’s offices with energy saving LED Lighting.

Having published magazines and media for over 30 years, Key Publishing is now firmly established as the world’s leading publisher of transport and specialist leisure titles.

Overview:

The lighting system originally in place used power hungry fluorescent lights that needed frequent maintenance. Overall the light levels were lower than required in an office environment.

The Requirement:

The Prolite Projects team were invited to become involved in a complete office re-fit project to modernise Key Publishing’s premises in Stamford, Lincolnshire. The project required the Prolite projects team to work alongside various other tradespeople from interior designers through to decoration teams.

The client was passionate about finding a unique, sustainable, long term solution. The final lighting solution needed to meet the following requirements:

It needed to offer a strong return on investment,
It needed to reduce current maintenance costs,
Light levels needed to be significantly higher
The solution must have a low energy usage
There must be minimal recycling costs.

The Solution:

After a full site evaluation, the Prolite Projects technical team selected multiple LED lighting products from within the Prolite Lamps range for the different areas of the site. All fittings met the requirements of the client and offered significantly higher light levels than the old lighting system.

In total, 150 units were installed across the site with minimal inconvenience to the working day. The final solution will give Key Publishing brighter work spaces with a 60% energy saving.

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Chiltern Cold Storage

by James Scott | Feb 21, 2021

Chiltern Cold Storage

Prolite Projects meet the LED Upgrade Challenge at Chiltern Cold Storage Group.

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You just can’t cut corners with the combination of LED lighting and temperature-controlled environments

John Davidson

Managing Director, Chiltern Cold Storage Group LTD

Overview:

The lighting system that was in place at Chiltern Cold Storage Group, when the Prolite Projects team carried out their initial site survey, used power hungry light fittings that required frequent maintenance and offered a very poor light level. The light levels in all the different areas were much lower than required within a storage environment where quality product control checks are completed by the workforce on site several times a day.

John Davidson was very passionate about finding a unique, long term, sustainable solution that would improve lighting in all areas of the site. This included the offices, ambient warehouses, packing areas and also -22 degree Celsius storage areas.

The Requirement:

The Challenge that was brought to the Prolite projects team was how to raise the lighting Lux levels significantly above the old system in all areas whilst showing a significant energy saving and a good return on investment for the site too!

After a full site evaluation, light modelling and site testing, the Prolite Projects team carefully selected multiple, highly efficient, LED products from the Prolite range to recommend for installation at the site. These luminaires were selected to combine state-of-the-art occupancy monitoring sensors and to optimise the ‘Co-efficiency of Performance’ (Also known as COP) saving that can be generated when combining LED lighting efficiency with cold store environments.

Good COP? When Prolite LED luminaires are used to replace less efficient light sources, typically metal halide or sodium lighting, there is an additional saving gained when used in refrigerated environments.

In addition to the lighting circuit’s reduced energy consumption, there will also be less power consumed by the cooling system to maintain the fitting to the desired temperature. This is due to the higher efficiency of the Prolite LED light fittings producing less waste heat that previously had to be removed by the refrigeration system.

The Solution:

An installation plan was devised by Prolite Projects team together with the installation team to minimise any disruption to Chiltern’s operations effectively splitting the project into five phases to complete the project within the required timescale but minimising interruption to daily work processes wherever possible.

The installation plan included using the most efficient state of the art control systems across all phases of the installation to give maximum energy savings and return on investment allowing lights to automatically dim up and down when human presence is detected.

The installation team worked in a number of areas outside normal operating hours, including weekend and evening work in some areas. This helped to minimise disruption to Chiltern’s operational processes. Prolite Projects even supplied LED mobile lighting tower solutions to assist operations in key areas to avoid any disruptions to Chiltern’s working day.

One of the Lighting designs put together by the Prolite Projects team

In total, over 500 fittings were installed across the site with minimal inconvenience and disruption to the site and workforce throughout their busy scheduled days.

Brett Virgin, Project Manager at Prolite Projects, who planned and oversaw the project was very pleased with the outcome:

“Chiltern Cold Storage Group’s LED lighting upgrade project is very impressive. All of the staff’s comments on light levels have been very positive and the project have given me a lot of personal satisfaction seeing it come to completion and seeing the massive improvements that we have been able to make. Chiltern have been a pleasure to work with along every step of the way.”

The LED upgrade that Chiltern Cold Storage Group have undertaken will deliver over £30,000 worthof energy saving per year on previous lighting costs alone. Savings are further enhanced with COP savings in the cold environments, reduced maintenance costs and much improved light levels throughout the site which is expected to reduce pick and pack errors significantly.

The LED lighting upgrade solution that has been installed has given Chiltern an increase in light levels of up to 400% and a massive energy saving increase through the combination of efficient luminaires and installation of a microwave sensor system of over 65% post installation. A 5-year product warranty supported by Prolite Projects will, in turn, guarantee that savings will be made into the future.

The LED lighting upgrade project has been hassle-free from start to finish. The staff, both on site and in the office, at Prolite Projects are professional and have a real keen eye for detail which is what the project demanded. The light level improvement and energy saving combination has been noticed by key staff in all departments around the busy site. The project has been a real win-win for Chiltern.

John Davidson

Managing Director, Chiltern Cold Storage Group LTD

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The March Hare Tearooms

by James Scott | Feb 21, 2021

The March Hare Tearooms

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The Requirement:

The Prolite Lamps project team have recently assisted the new owner, Amy Roberts, of the March Hare at the Pantry Café in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire with a lighting makeover.

When Amy took over the business in the Autumn of 2018 the lighting was a mixture of fluorescent strip light fittings left over from when the building was a doctors surgery and other odd lights that had been added at different times.

Amy wanted to create a much softer lighting effect that was more in keeping with a café environment yet also interesting to add to the quirkiness of the March Hare theme.

The Solution:

Through the installation of a mixture of Prolite lamps including 4 Giant Funky Filament PS160 Smoked lamps the Café has been transformed. The cozy corner is now much more relaxing and the main café is much more attractive to customers visiting.

Amy and her team are thrilled with the results and have had plenty of positive feedback from their regulars who have seen the transformation take place.

Thank you to Ritelite’s Prolite Lamps team for transforming The March Hare Tearooms. We had the old fashioned striplights and we needed direction to make the tearooms lighting softer, energy efficient and give it a sparkle. From strip lights to a mixture of stunning hanging lights and bright bulbs for a chandler it’s made the tearooms exactly what we were looking for. We now run much more efficiently so saving money too is always a winning combination. Thank you to Laura Hazlewood for her time and amazing advice as I had no idea where to start!

Amy Roberts

Business Owner , Ritelite gets 10 out of 10 from The March Hare Tearooms.

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Paten & Co

by James Scott | Feb 21, 2021

Paten & Co, Stamford

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The Requirement:

After seeing our Funky filament LED Light bulbs, Knead Pubs asked if we could provide advice and product options to fit some unique fittings that had been collected by the proprietor.

The Solution:

One of our lighting specialists viewed the site during the building and renovation process. After seeing the fittings, we were able to specify some decorative and functional LED options that were in keeping with the aesthetics of the Paten & Co Venue yet offered the proprietors an energy saving from traditional wattage light bulbs.

Ritelite helped us source some unique lamps to add amazing lighting effects to our pub Paten & Co after our proprietor found some vintage and industrial light fittings. They were full of knowledge and good suggestions, directing us to the right solution for our venue.

Ross Dykes

Operations Manager

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Boels Rental

by James Scott | Feb 21, 2021

Boels Rental

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Overview:

Ritelite have recently been working closely with Boels Rental in both existing depots and on new planned depots to ensure that the lighting installed is safe, functional and efficient.

One of the most current projects has been focused on a new Boels Rental Depot in Newcastle. Using the site plans the team was able to generate lighting plots and recommend a lighting solution for the new depot.

The products installed were Ritelite’s new 150W linear LED Bay lights fitted with Microwave sensors. The fittings met the required specification for the client and had been installed at different depots previously with good feedback and performance.

The Solution:

I have been working with Ashley Newton at Ritelite Systems for over a year now and have always found him to be very responsive to our demands, be it for lighting designs, quotations or specifications of products.

Good lighting is key to ensuring our estates are compliant, energy efficient and safe places for our colleagues to work in. The benefit of working with Ritelite is that once provided with our drawings and requirements they produce all the lighting designs for us, suggest an appropriate product and provide us with a quote to supply the equipment. Buying direct from the manufacturer, where we have a direct single point of contact has proved so much easier than dealing with an Electrical Wholesalers, as we have done previously.

Ashley has recently helped us with our new depot in Newcastle, a site that will enable us to grow our presence in the North East of England and better serve our customers with our ever expanding range of equipment. We decided to make use of 19 of their newest luminaries, the Prolite 150W LED High Bay Linear Light with Microwave Sensors. The fittings arrived well packaged on a pallet and from opening the first unit I was struck by the quality of the fitting, no cheap tinny enclosures, no thin lenses and no exposed dazzlingly bright LED chips. Installation of the fittings was also a breeze, a pair of sturdy eyes pre-cast into the aluminium heat sink made hanging the fittings easy, as did the pre-wired flex of more than ample length. I’ve had experience of fittings with Microwave detectors in the past, I’ve also had the experience of repeatedly having to go up to each sensor, unscrew a cover and mess around with little switches to get the right programming, not the case with these fittings, all the programming can be changed by remote control from the ground, full control of detection range, dimming levels and durations and best of all at what ambient level to turn off altogether.

Are these the best fittings I’ve used in my 14 years as an Electrician? Undoubtedly!

We look forward to working with Ritelite Systems again as Boels Rental continues its bold expansion plans across the UK.

Adam Goodfellow

Safety & Compliance Manager, Boels Rental

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