The Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Wales installed 300 LED light fixtures to illuminate its parking facilities and access roads. This is expected to save over £34,000 per year in energy and maintenance costs, resulting in a payback period of less than 3 years. The LED lights also reduce the hospital's carbon emissions by 100 tons annually and decrease the need for access vehicles to replace faulty lamps. The LED lights provide more even light distribution and visibility compared to the high pressure sodium and metal halide lamps previously used.

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LED illumination improves parking facilities for Wales hospital
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14 Oct 2008
Outdoor Illumination
A hospital in the UK has installed 300 LED external light fixtures to illuminate its car
parks and access roads. Related Links
The Royal Glamorgan Hospital near Cardiff, Wales, has installed 301 LED i-Vision
fixtures from UK manufacturer i-Vision at a cost of just under £100,000.
Fibre Optic With estimated savings in energy and maintenance costs of over £34,000
Lighting per year, the Pontypridd & Rhondda NHS Trust, which runs the hospital,
Design expects to see a payback period of less than 3 years.
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of Quality Fibre 100 tonnes per year, and also reduce the need to hire access vehicles to
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Paul Lewis, estates manager at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, explained
to i-Vision that the goals of the project were to provide an energy-
efficient solution for the car park and roadway lighting; to offer
LED Street significant savings on energy bills and maintenance costs; and to improve the lighting within the
Lighting car park to ensure good visibility and security to all users.
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The existing lighting was a mixture of
Streets from 30w- high pressure sodium and metal halide
110w offering lamps, with an expected lifetime of
50,000 Hours+ between 8,000 and 15,000 hours. The
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In the car parks, 99 HPS400 floodlights
LED display from were replaced with i-Vision SL48 LED
China units, reducing energy consumption from
485W to 60W per fitting. On the access
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roads, 53 MB1250 units were replaced by
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i-Vision SLUB36 LED fixtures, taking
Mature technology, consumption down from 290W to 45W per
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A number of safety beacons at pedestrian
crossings, as well as uplighters around the
LED outdoor hospital’s main entrances, were also
display converted to LED technology.
Huge Range of The existing lighting poles in the car parks were utilised, with 3
LED display & fixtures per pole to ensure 360-degree coverage. The use of lenses
soluti- ons, and control of the fixture angles results in a much better spread of
certificate light and an improvement to the overall lighting scheme.
CE/RoHS/3C etc. “To my knowledge, this is one of the first external lighting schemes
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completed in a car park in this country to exclusively utilize LED
fixtures,” said Geoff Jones, managing director of i-Vision. “It was
very important for the whole car park to receive a uniform distribution of light to ensure that
patients, visitors and staff feel safe.”
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