COVER STORY With LED lighting offering guaranteed energy savings of up to 60%, school management BEST IN CLASS
teams are realising that investment can significantly reduce energy and maintenance costs – freeing up funds to be channelled into the curriculum, suggests Earlsmann.
Smart schools choose LEDs to save money
and boost learning As many schools strive to find a balance between maintaining facilities and managing budgets, spending on energy use is coming under increasing scrutiny. Lighting is one of the largest running costs for schools; a typical secondary school using traditional fluorescent lighting could spend up to £50,000 a year to keep the lights on.
“Improved light levels create more
energising spaces for pupils to learn and teachers to work.”
Research undertaken by the Carbon Trust showed that the cost of lighting may account for 20% of a school’s total energy bill. If schools across the UK focused on reducing energy costs across every area, including lighting, it could realise savings of over £44m a year and prevent around 625,000 tonnes of CO2 being released to the atmosphere.
As well as offering substantial savings in running costs, LED lighting is often more effective than traditional lighting. Improved light levels create more energising spaces for pupils to learn and teachers to work; emerging evidence suggests that good lighting can have a positive impact on concentration levels, mood and motivation, and could therefore help to boost pupils’ attainment.
Outstanding school seeks exceptional
LED lighting LED lighting specialist Earlsmann was recently contacted by Auditel to provide proposals for a total lighting upgrade at Swanlea School in Whitechapel, London. The school, which was graded ‘outstanding’ in its most recent OFSTED assessment, was looking to save money while also providing better facilities to support ongoing exceptional achievement.
The issue of shrinking budgets is particularly acute in the state sector; a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in July 2018 found per pupil spending in England’s schools has fallen by 8% since 2010. Swanlea School appointed business performance and energy cost reduction consultant Auditel to review its energy performance, arrange a survey of the existing lighting and to propose improvements.
Earlsmann designs a high-performance LED
lighting solution for a unique building Earlsmann used the survey provided by Auditel as a basis to quote, and modelled several different areas for
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