MHA Lighting has supplied more than £500,000 worth of lighting products to the airport in the last 18 months.
The latest project, which completes this month, includes replacing under canopy lighting with MHA’s patented C Lite technology.
This project replaced 400Wt (without ballast) Metal Halides with their new C Lite product – the C90/700. This unit uses just 180W watts (including ballast) and will replace the Metal Halides on a one-for-one basis and installed at a height of 9m, whilst maintaining more than 180 Lux to the floor.
MHA Lighting managing director Tom Harrison said: “We have a great relationship with Manchester Airport and very much enjoy working with an airport that is not only award-winning, but forward thinking. Their commitment to the green agenda and becoming carbon neutral is truly impressive and we are delighted to be playing our part in helping them achieve their goal."
The airport has become somewhat of a lighting showroom for our lighting products, he said. "Now we have supplied C Lites for the covered roadways between the car parks and terminals we are able to connect our various projects so it is MHA pretty much all the way.”
In 2009, Manchester Airport made a major commitment to reduce its carbon footprint and set out to be the first airport group to have carbon neutral ground operations by 2015.
In November 2010, MHA Lighting supplied 2140 LB Lite LED lights for Manchester Airport’s Terminal Two and Terminal Three multi-storey car parks, which will are designed to achieve an overall Co2 reduction of 3170t over the product lifetime.
MHA Lighting’s fittings were then again selected for Terminal Two Arrivals and Departures concourse and baggage reclaim hall to replace 280W metal halides (including ballast losses).
There, MHA installed High Bay TiLite – which is just 123W with ballast and delivers 300 lux to the floor. These lights replaced the metal halides on a one-for-one basis and not only improved lighting levels and uniformity within the concourse but instantly achieved a 57% energy saving.
The High Bay TiLites have been supplied with control gear that works seamlessly alongside Manchester Airport’s building management system, which in turn will work alongside aircraft flight movements interface, once completed. This means that they have the potential to do things like dim the lights in empty passenger zones, but automatically switch the lights back on when aircraft have landed.
Jonathan Beswick, project technician, Manchester Airport, said: “After several months of trialling numerous lighting technologies and designs, MHA’s bespoke retro fit solutions outshone all the others. We were particularly impressed with the speed and efficiency of MHA Lighting to design, fit and test their products to our stringent criteria.
“Their products have more than exceeded our expectations and we are delighted to have been able to work closely with MHA to find the right solutions for different applications within the airport.
“MHA Lighting is demonstrating right here at Manchester Airport that with forward thinking design, it is possible to improve light levels, while reducing energy consumption and carbon impact.”
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