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Light in the Garden Venture Provide an energy efficient lighting solution for Hayes Garden World.
For Hayes Garden World, lighting is an important aspect of creating the right environment for customers, as is ensuring that the store is as eco-friendly as possible. In line with this, Venture Lighting Europe has supplied lamps and dimming ballasts for the interior lighting at the Ambleside based store. Supplied and specified by Hacel Lighting Ltd, the metal halide lighting scheme was chosen to ensure excellent colour rendering, whilst dramatically reducing the overall energy consumption on site.
Hayes Garden World is one of Europe’s leading garden centres, with annual visitor numbers of over 1.25 million. The centre covers an area of 16 acres, and has 228,000 square feet of indoor display space as well as extensive outdoor areas. Hacel were contacted to review the existing scheme and suggest a more efficient, energy saving light source that would greatly improve the interior plant displays and general retail
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areas, which include books, CDs, clothing and seasonal displays. Hacel’s Aspen Prismatic high bay luminaires were used throughout with Venture’s Uni-Form® 150w ceramic lamps. Part of the retail section is contained under a bespoke curved glass vaulted ceiling, and Hacel suggested using Venture’s Ventronic dimming ballasts specifically for this area. This allowed the system to automatically assess the amount of natural light available and dim down accordingly, saving energy and keeping the light at a constant, even level. This is an important thing for Hayes Garden World, who are now making efficient use of natural light, ensuring that they are not wasting light or energy in the process of lighting their products. The use of a metal halide lighting solution
has helped to reduce the overall energy consumption on the Hayes Garden World site by an impressive 45%, and has a ddressed the problem faced by many
garden centres, of how to show plants and produce at their best. General manager Richard Hayes commented “We are extremely pleased with the quality of the new lighting scheme and the advice and support given by Hacel, as well as the energy savings they have helped us to achieve. Staff and customers have commented on the enhanced general ambience that the new lighting has created”.
Contact:
Venture Lighting Europe T: +44 (0) 845 230 2222 W:
www.venturelightingeurope.com
Hacel Lighting Limited T: +44 (0) 191 280 9911 W:
www.hacel.net
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