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Switching onto LED lighting


KRISTINAALLISON, director and consultant at Lighting Enterprises Consultancy & Associates, explains the potential for effective, energy efficient lighting to deliver great benefits for contractor and client


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LED lighting can be used to enhance an environment while delivering significant energy savings


he funny thing about lighting is that no-one really notices it until there’s something wrong with it. It’s too bright, it’s too dark – or simply that the electricity or maintenance bills are going


through the roof. What’s more, new legislation relating to inefficient lamps and other poorly performing lighting products means that demand for energy-efficient products has increased, and has driven the whole lighting industry to embrace other new lighting technologies.


LED lighting is a relatively new and exciting medium, and its energy saving benefits and design flexibility have created interest at all levels, from high-level retail brands to domestic use. LED lighting technology is able to deliver real energy savings to clients from day one, and for some clients, will also contribute to their Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). Most LED lamps and LED fittings also comply with the requirements of Part L of the Building Regulations (Conservation of Fuel and Power). The major advances in lamps, downlights and,


more recently, modular recessed and industrial fittings, mean that aside from low energy, there are a number of operational and environmental benefits of using LED technology on any lighting project. Their extraordinary long life (50,000 hours-plus) means they need zero maintenance, with no light source replacement, thus reducing whole life cycle costs of projects. In addition, the colour is excellent; they emit neither UV nor IR radiation; and they contain no mercury.


58 ECA Today March 2013


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