by James Scott | Feb 21, 2021
PC Howard LTD are one of the UK’s leading third party logistics providers and were looking to modernise the current lighting systems in place. This was throughout their busy 24 hour depot based in Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire and included offices, corridors, despatch centre, warehouses and external yard areas.
The client required a long term, low-energy solution to their on-going issue of picking and packing errors within their despatch, warehouse and external yard areas. The lights needed to offer an increase in light output to reduce these errors, whilst minimising both energy consumption and maintenance costs.
Other areas within the depot included offices and corridors where low energy replacement products were required, whilst maintaining current light levels on site.
After a site evaluation, the project specification team advised replacing the power hungry 400w metal halide bay lights with High Output LED Tray-Bay fittings. Using just 144w’s of energy each, these units were able to increase light levels by more than 30% across the main despatch area’s of the warehouse.
The running costs of the site’s lighting system has now been reduced by more than 70% and also offered a return of investment on materials of just 1.4 years.
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by James Scott | Feb 21, 2021
Airfield Warehousing based in Oundle, just outside of Peterborough are a professional warehouse storage, handling and transport that have been running for over 30 years.
Their warehouse storage site had been rebuilt in the 1980s and has over 110,000sq ft of purpose-built dry, secure warehousing space together with large areas for outside storage too. They were looking to upgrade the current Fluorescent and Sodium bay lighting system in place wit high quality LED Products.
The client had on-going issues with the current lighting system that required an energy saving solution, the issues included the following.
- Exceedingly high energy usage within low traffic warehouse areas
- Low light levels within warehouse areas creating picking and packing errors
- External CCTV system was not effective at night time due to poor lighting levels from current sodium lighting units
- Emergency lighting did not conform to regulations
- High maintenance costs in comparison to LED alternatives
The requirement from the client were mainly to minimise running costs using Prolite LED lighting products. An increase of light levels throughout the site was required to decrease the picking and packing errors and also increase the clarity of the CCTV system in place at night time. All internal units required the option to include an emergency option to fall in line with current legislation.
After a site evaluation, the project specification team advised replacing the current lighting system with a bespoke LED lighting system. The light levels were all predicted before installation took place by our in-house lighting design team.
This was to ensure that a genuine increase of both LUX levels as well as uniformity of light would be achievable in both internal and external areas. A programmable sensor system was also designed within the fittings to ensure any low traffic areas of the warehouse would not be illuminated whilst no workers were within the area, maximising energy savings for the site as much as physically possible.
Airfield warehouse now have a low energy sustainable lighting system. The warranty period in turn guarantee’s that the energy savings will be made.
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Additional Sensor saving = £5,589.44
Total Saving = £29,214.99
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by James Scott | Feb 21, 2021
A Wonderful Castle in the heart of Lincolnshire. Grimsthorpe Castle is a historic house that lies within a 3000 acre park of rolling pastures, lakes and woodland landscaped by Capability Brown.
Grimsthorpe Castle is a beautiful stately home set in stunning countryside near Bourne in Lincolnshire. The castle is the centrepiece of the estate and is a large quadrangular house with a central courtyard. Each section of the house has a different appearance, reflecting the different architectural styles that have been employed here since building began in the 13th century.
Grimsthorpe has been the home of the de Eresby family since 1516 when it was granted by Henry VIII to the 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby on the occasion of his marriage to Maria de Salinas, lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon. It is now owned and managed by The Grimsthorpe & Dummond Castle trust.
The Castle collection includes tapestries, furniture, ceramics and paintings. Many are on display in the State rooms where the shutters and curtains are closed to ensure that the fragile contents in the rooms are protected from direct sunlight.
There are many lights within the rooms to create an intimate and home-like atmosphere and to display the contents to the many visitors the castle receives each year.
The numerous chandeliers and standard lamps consume a vast amount of energy annually. The problem the trust needed to overcome was how to save energy whilst maintaining the aesthetics of the standard incandescent lamps and visually displaying the exhibits of the room to maximum effect.
The Prolite Projects team conducted an energy survey at the castle to identify potential energy savings that could be achieved through an LED upgrade installation throughout the castle.
By upgrading the standard power hungry incandescent lamps to Prolite’s new range of aesthetically pleasing LED filament lamps the energy usage in the rooms where lamps have been changed has reduced by over 95%.
The return on investment for the Castle was achieved in less than 3 months! The 2 year product warranty offered by Prolite ensures that the savings will be made time and time again.
The Prolite Projects Team undertook a comprehensive survey of Grimsthorpe Castle’s lighting requirements, identified the savings and then delivered a quality product on time and within budget.
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Return on investment was achieved within less than three months
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by James Scott | Feb 21, 2021
Stanhay Precision Seeders
Stanhay Webb Ltd were looking for the design, supply and installation of an LED upgrade lighting system within their warehouse area.
The new system needed to offer an increase of light levels across the area whilst offering a 5-year maintenance free solution too. Inefficient fluorescent fittings were previously fitted across the site at 8m height which needed frequent maintenance using expensive access equipment and gave very poor light levels for the task of picking and packing orders.
The client was looking for a low-cost, LED upgrade that guaranteed increased light output whilst reducing not only the company’s carbon footprint and energy usage, but a reduction in maintenance costs over the lifetime of the new system.
After a site evaluation, the Prolite lamps design team completed a lighting design for the area to ensure light levels would be increased to fall in line with CIBSE guidelines post installation. The design team recommended that high output LED High Bay Disc lights were installed – these have been proven to be the most cost effective, most efficient, low energy solution for this type of application whilst meeting the light level criteria set out by the client. These units were installed across the site upgrading the existing luminaires out of hours to ensure minimal inconvenience to the site.
The results were a massive 50% saving on energy usage, minimised maintenance costs, doubling of light levels and a return on investment in just 2.5 years. The 5 year product warranty guarantees that the site will achieve these savings.
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by James Scott | Feb 21, 2021
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.
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 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.
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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