LED Lighting for a brighter future!

Customer challenge Carrefour, the largest retailer in Europe, was opening a new hypermarket in North West Spain. With no points of entry for daylight in the building, the company needed a way to create a natural shopping environment. Could Philips help Carrefour to attain the right levels of light and reach its sustainability goals? The right lighting   With over 9,500 stores over 32 countries, Carrefour knows a thing or two about shopping. The company, founded in 1959, has built itself up to become the largest retailer in Europe and the second biggest in the world. When it opened a new hypermarket in Santiago de Compostela, illumination posed a significant challenge as the premises had no entry points for daylight. In line with the group’s sustainability efforts, a bright yet energy-efficient lighting solution was needed. LED was the answer. For general illumination, Maxos LED was used to bring natural-looking light to the aisles. The crisp, white brillia...

LUX Mar-14 Stansted and East Midlands Airports will soon be treated to new lighting schemes and control systems. The new systems will be modelled on the one recently installed at Manchester Airport, which links lights to the the airport's flight monitoring system, allowing lights to be turned on in certain areas when passengers are due to arrive. All three airports are owned by Manchester Airports Group. Speaking at the Smart Lighting Conference in London in February, Andy Sheridan, services facility manager of Manchester Airport, and Jon Beswick, technical engineer at Manchester Airport Group, revealed that the group is ‘hoping to deliver the same, energy-efficient LED scheme to Stansted Airport’ which has given Manchester Airport savings of 80-90 per cent. Stansted Airport has its own team of engineers but will be consulting Sheridan and Beswick, who oversaw the implementation of the lighting control system in Manchester Airport. There is currently no set...