Inspire: Luton Sports Village
One of the UK's premier sporting facilities, Luton Sports Village significantly reduced energy consumption, cut costs and modernized facility infrastructure with intelligent lighting technologies from Enlighted.
Customer Profile
Inspire Sports Village is a world class, multi-sports facility with a large modern gym, a range of fitness rooms, and one of the UK’s premier swimming facilities where many Olympians and professional athletes train. Inspire brings the best of wellbeing to its diverse and vibrant community.
Learn how Inspire: Luton Sports Village worked with CILS and Enlighted to slash their energy consumption, cut costs and improve their visitor experience by upgrading to LED lighting and intelligent controls.
Challenge
- Rising energy costs:
- Public pools and sporting facilities across the UK are struggling with unaffordable upkeep and energy bills. As a result, many have been forced to close. Inspire was facing similar challenges with inefficient lighting taking a large portion of their energy bills.
- Public pools and sporting facilities across the UK are struggling with unaffordable upkeep and energy bills. As a result, many have been forced to close. Inspire was facing similar challenges with inefficient lighting taking a large portion of their energy bills.
- Compliance to emergency lighting standards:
- Ensuring compliance to emergency lighting standards was costly, time-consuming and painstaking for Inspire Luton. With monthly, annual compliance tests and reports being done manually, Inspire was committed to finding a more effecient and affordable solution.
- Ensuring compliance to emergency lighting standards was costly, time-consuming and painstaking for Inspire Luton. With monthly, annual compliance tests and reports being done manually, Inspire was committed to finding a more effecient and affordable solution.
- Safety:
- Safety and visitor experience is a priority for Active Luton. The center’s outdated lighting system was no longer aligned with modern day expectations.
Results
Inspire Sports Village partnered with Cils and Enlighted to complete a lighting retrofit to upgrade their facilities and emergency lighting system with energy efficient LEDs and a state-of-the-art Enlighted Control System. In addition to 85% lighting energy savings, the new lighting system saves a staggering 340 MWh each year. Inspire Luton has also achieved their cost savings goals by saving £68.5K on electricity costseach year.
“There were opportunities beyond just lighting I was particularly keen on. Those intelligent sensors could allow us to reduce further our cost base and be more efficient in the longer term.”
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