A lighting project for Stansted Airport designed by Morgan Sindall Professional Services (MSPS), the multidisciplinary design and engineering firm, working with OSRAM, a light manufacturer was the first runner up in a prestigious ‘Lighting Design’ Award.
The ‘highly commended’ recognition in the Low Carbon category marks the second accolade for MSPS’ electrical engineering team in three years, following a win in 2013.
The awards, held at the London Hilton Hotel on Park Lane are the largest and most respected celebration in lighting design. The highly-competitive Low Carbon award celebrates projects that demonstrate significant energy savings through excellence and innovation in terms of design, equipment or technique.
The project was for Stansted’s 306m undercroft. The brief was to optimise lighting levels with improved controls that could vary illuminance levels, to reduce maintenance costs, and future proof the system so that it could be updated or integrated with other building management systems when required.
Peter Fordham, senior lighting designer at MSPS, said to be recognised for a second time demonstrates the company’s expertise in low carbon design: “Working with OSRAM, we have achieved a crisp, clear light with enhanced uniformity within a solution that has delivered an 89% energy usage reduction, which equates to a cost saving of just under £119,000. A significant cost saving for the client and evidence of what intelligent design can produce.”
The number of luminaires has been reduced from 286 to 120 and power consumption from 130KW/H to 14KW/H, whilst the design enables optimum energy usage as illumination levels can be programmed to respond to the time of day and how busy the area is. The LED luminaires utilise LON Powerline protocol, allowing for existing cabling to be reused where appropriate, and each luminaire can be controlled individually or in groups to allow Stansted to make future adaptations without re-wiring.
Karen Cawley, responsible for the project at OSRAM says: “Carbon efficiency has always been a focus of OSRAM’s products, projects and solutions. The 120 Siteco T21 Tunnel LED luminaires have a heat and impact protection rating of IK10 and are expected to last for 90,000 hours, significantly reducing maintenance costs. We feel honored to be the first runner up in this Lighting Design Award.”
Liz Brassington, environment standards manager at Stansted concluded: “MSPS and OSRAM have created an award-worthy design that combines innovative engineering with leading product technology to create near-daylight conditions using a fraction of the energy used in the previous design. As well as providing considerable cost savings, as the fourth busiest airport in the UK it also crucially helps us to support the Government’s Carbon Plan, aiming to reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050.”
