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JERSEY TABLE TENNIS CENTRE SET FOR INTERNATIONAL ISLAND GAMES WITH NEW LIGHTING INSTALLATION
A NEW lighting installation is setting the scene for an international sports competition at the end of the month.
WHAT I LEARNT THIS MONTH Liz Kentish
Among all the training courses we run we often focus on individual learning and communication styles. However, knowing something and actually doing it can be quite different, I know that my own style is a combination of visual and kinaesthetic; I work better with pictures, scents, music and touch.
So why do I find myself again and again sitting in front of a blank word document to write? It doesn’t work well, I start to fret at my lack of progress and I’m not nice to be around! Many workplaces don’t seem designed to allow people to play to their own strengths, so they also end up frustrated and unproductive. As FM professionals you can have a huge impact here – even if you can’t change the layout to offer different work spaces, you might be able to impact through aroma, music or décor.
This time I decided to practice what I preach, so this article was drafted in storyboard format on a flipchart in my lounge, with scented marker pens (try them, they’re fabulous!) and Alan Jackson playing in the background, loudly. As his track ‘What I do’ came on, it underlined everything I was planning to write about – be yourself, do it your own way. As the man says, ‘I’m one of the fortunate few, to do what I do.’
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The Channel Island of Jersey is playing host to the biennial NatWest Island Games this year – an event that is set to be on a par with the size of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Sportsmen and women from around the globe will descend on the Island for the event, which will see more than 2,700 competitors do battle in sports such as archery, tennis and sailing.
Taking its place amongst the sporting events is the highly-anticipated table tennis competition at Jersey’s Geoff Reed Table Tennis Centre.
New lighting installed by MHA Lighting Ltd at the St. Clement centre has smashed lux level targets in the purpose-built facility, where a total of 11 islands will be taking part in table tennis tournaments from 27th June.
Audrey Tupper, President of the Jersey Table Tennis Association, said: “The NatWest Island Games is a prestigious sporting event on an international scale, and we are honoured to be hosting the table tennis competition at our Geoff Reed Table Tennis Centre.
“As part of the improvement works in preparation for the Games we identified that the lighting installed
above the nine-table hall fell short of official international competition standards as recommended by Sport England.
“After speaking with St. Helier based LED Lighting Technology Ltd it became apparent that switching to LED is an investment that would achieve our exacting requirements, and that installation could be fully completed before the beginning of the Games.”
After researching various options, LED Lighting Technology Ltd’s Managing Director Paul Couser recommended MHA Lighting’s products, which offered the highest quality light uniformity and colour rendering for the table tennis centre, as well as being extremely low glare.
The team at MHA sprung into action and designed a bespoke solution for the centre installing 60 LightStar 203 LED luminaires. In doing so overall lighting energy consumption was reduced by 61% - providing an annual saving of £2.5k and 8Tonne reduction in Co2 emissions.
Using patented waveguide technology MHA’s LightStar 203 can deliver up to 120 lumens per circuit watt and 5700Kelvin to ensure the lit- environment is at the optimum level for table tennis players.
Sport England specifies 600 lux for community competitions and 850 lux for national competitions. The new lighting installation has smashed the international standard and achieved 1000 lux, creating an environment suitable for sporting activities featured on TV.
The NatWest Island Games take place in Jersey from 27th June – 3rd July 2015.
www.mhalighting.co.uk
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