News
News in brief LED lighting will have ‘profound’
New wind factory for UK
Clipper Windpower is to start impact on wider BS sector
construction of a factory in
Newcastle to build the biggest
wind turbine blades in the world. n
In 20 years’ time the UK generating capacity, compared with
lighting market will be the current five per cent.
It will employ up to 500 people dominated by LEDs, according to ‘LEDs are already lighting many
by 2020 to manufacture blades CIBSE president Mike Simpson. public spaces and next year they
for the 10 megawatt ‘Britannia’ Speaking at last month’s meeting will move into commercial office
offshore wind turbine. Separately of the Rumford Club, Simpson designs,’ said Simpson, who is also
the UK government has said this would have profound technical & design director at Philips
announced that £8m of funding implications for all aspects of Lighting.
for offshore wind technology is building services design, because ‘The façade of Buckingham
now available. future light fittings will be much Palace, for example, is lit by LED
smaller and will not emit as much floodlighting that uses about the
Preferred bidder for Essex heat. same amount of electricity as a
Skanska has been chosen as the ‘We are seeing a 15 per cent domestic kettle. LEDs are also
preferred-bidder for developing, improvement year-on-year in being used in supermarket freezer
constructing and maintaining lighting design, reflected either in cabinets to reduce heat loads and
three schools for Essex County improved output quality from solid to cut energy by as much as 60 per
Council. The private finance state technology or reduced energy cent.’
initiative will see Skanska consumption,’ he told the meeting Mike Simpson... Impact of LEDs He added: ‘More engineering
responsible for the financing, at the Army & Navy Club in London teams are starting to employ lighting
design and construction of the last month. will cut that to six GWh by the end specialists and it is being considered
new schools, as well as their Simpson said lighting in the UK of this decade. However, CF lighting earlier in the design process.
maintenance for a total of 26 currently consumes 17 gigawatt is only an interim stage and will Because this lighting revolution will
years, beginning in 2011. hours (GWh) of electricity annually, eventually give way to LEDs, which have a major knock-on effect on the
but the gradual conversion to will finally cut lighting loads to just rest of the industry, it is ideal that we
Emissions data revealed compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) 0.2 per cent of the country’s total are all working together in CIBSE.’
UK emissions of the six
greenhouse gases (GHG)
covered by the Kyoto Protocol
Institute defends
fell by 1.9 per cent in 2008,
according to latest figures from
dimming the
the Department for Energy and
lights in Coventry
Climate Change. Carbon dioxide
emissions, which accounted for An allegedly cash-strapped council
85 per cent of GHG emissions, has been criticised for spending
fell by 2 per cent. The overall £250m on a controls system to dim
GHG emissions reduction its street lights – but the Institute of
was mainly due to the switch Lighting Engineers (ILE) believes it
from coal to gas for electricity is a smart move.
generation.
www.decc.gov.uk Coventry City Council was
criticised in a report in the Daily Mail
Crossrail contract awarded newspaper for spending £250m on
The third and final tunnelling new lamps to help it save cash. The
contract for the Crossrail project move will allow the lamps’ brightness
has been advertised. The to be turned down when the streets
construction for Thames Tunnel are quiet in the early hours.
involves twin six metre diameter But Nigel Parry, technical services
bored tunnels from Plumstead manager at the ILE, said the country
Portal to North Woolwich Portal. would see a big rise in these types
www.crossrail.co.uk of dynamic lighting systems in the
next six to 12 months in order to
Balfour in £1.9m acquisition cut carbon and bills: ‘In Coventry,
Infrastructure group operating they could potentially reduce their
in construction services, Balfour lighting levels by half and make
Beatty, has acquired both substantial carbon savings.’
Multibuild Hotels and Leisure He added that these types of
Shedding new light on Lloyds
Ltd and Multibuild Interiors Ltd, systems help to keep a uniform Lighting company Prolojik has completed the final phase of the installation
based in Stockport, specialising level of light and prevent lights of a new integrated lighting control system at Lloyd’s of London. The work
in the construction and fit-out of being switched off. They will also has been phased over a three-year period to work around the building
hotel and leisure facilities. The help eligible local authorities to pay occupants. In addition to lighting controllers, Prolojik supplied the heat
companies were acquired from less under the Carbon Reduction pump and fresh air controllers. The conference suite has architectural
Multibuild Holdings Ltd for a Commitment Energy Efficiency dimming, and the executive areas and meeting rooms are supplied with
cash consideration of £1.9m. Scheme (CRC). scene set controls.
See CRC feature, page 30
10 CIBSE Journal March 2010
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