Highway
Electrical
News
Issue 102, January / February 2014
In this Issue:
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Aerial Mapping to help
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NHWN Survey into Street
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Safety
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Editorial
It’s all change at HEN, with the new year bringing with it a new look for the magazine. As you can see,
we’ve moved away from the semi-newspaper format towards a glossier magazine look and the layout is
a bit cleaner and more modern.
2014 looks to be an interesting year for the energy market with the government’s Energy Act passing
into law (see page 14), a measure which could be the most significant reform of the energy market since
privatisation under Thatcher. There is still a lot of legal work to be done to implement the measures outlined in the Act however, and the impact it will have upon businesses in general, and our industry in particular remains to be seen.
A bit of a geek when it comes to innovative new technology, I was fascinated to learn about the softstop barrier which is now in use in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel. A very clever way to ensure that stop
alerts, which normally appear in the peripheral vision, are seen and acted upon by drivers. I wonder how
long it will be before this technology reaches our shores. Similarly interesting is the work that Studio
Roosegarde has done on the Smart Highway in the Netherlands, embracing dynamic paint, wind powered lights and inductive charging lanes for electric vehicles. See page 9.
Our feature article, what would in the past have been the cover story, can be found in the centre of the
magazine at pages 16-17. In this issue I’ve taken a look at the Neighbourhood Watch Network / Suzy
Lamplugh Trust Survey on street lighting and perceptions of safety. Perceptions of safety are crucial to
the success of street lighting projects, be they lighting upgrades or dimming, and this survey gives an
interesting insight into what those perceptions might be among the general public. However, for me it
frustratingly doesn’t go far enough in its analysis. I can’t help thinking that an interesting exercise, and
potentially one with more value than merely saying X% of people feel safe, would be to compare the
perceptions of whether lighting is dimmed, crime rates have gone up etc with the reality in the areas
covered by the survey. After all, if councils and lighting engineers could get a feel for how perceptions
are likely to be affected by the implementation of new lighting schemes and how this marries up to reality, it might be easier to address and allay any fears expressed by the public during consultation.
Finally, HEN is on the road again this year with its one day technical conferences. January’s was a great
success and there is another coming up in Harrogate on 13th March, so save the date for your diary and
we look forward to seeing you there.
Fiona Michie, Editor
Contents
4 International Year of Light
11 Health & Safety
18 Lighting
7 Interview: Jerome Mathias
13 Electric Vehicles
23 New Technology
8 Highways
14 Energy
24 Case Study: Meir Tunnel
9 Cameras
16 Feature: Street Lighting and
25 Press Releases/Appointments
10 Traffic Lights
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Year of Light
UN Proclaims International Year of Light for 2015
The General Assembly of the
United Nations has proclaimed
2015 to be the International Year
of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015). The IYL will promote improved public understanding of the central role of light in
the modern world as well as celebrating several significant scientific
anniversaries such as Einstein’s discovery of general relativity.
The IYL 2015 resolution was submitted to the United Nations Second Committee on 6th November
by delegates from Mexico, supported by delegates from New
Zealand. It received co-sponsorship from 35 countries and was endorsed by numerous scientific organisations as well as the
International Council for Science.
IYL 2015 is to be administered by
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an international steering committee in collaboration with the UNESCO International Basic Sciences
Programme and a secretariat at the
Abdus Salam International Centre
for Theoretical Physics. National
and regional committees will ensure that all countries of the world
may participate.
The proclamation has been championed by leaders of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) who believe that it will
help to raise awareness of the importance of photonics in solving
challenges in healthcare, communications and food supply along with
other important issues for people
everywhere.
John Dudley, chairman of the IYL
2015 steering committee commented: “An international year of
light is a tremendous opportunity
to ensure that policymakers are
made aware of the problem-solving potential of light technology.
Photonics provides cost-effective
solutions to challenges in many different areas: energy, sustainable
development, climate change,
health, communications and agriculture.”
Nobel laureate, John Mather, a
NASA scientist and Fellow of the
SPIE highlighted the importance of
light to life: “Light gives us life
through photosynthesis, lets us see
back in time towards that cosmic
big bang, and helps us communicate with the other sentient beings
here on earth, and, should we find
any, perhaps those in outer space
as well.”
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Interview: Jerome Mathias
Jerome Mathias was born in Bridgend, South Wales in 1966. He attended school at Kenfig
Hill. His introduction to the lighting industry came early as his first job aged 15 was working
for his father on street lighting. Jerome then joined BEI Lighting as an apprentice electrician,
attending Bridgend College as well, and worked his way up to become a manager for the
company. He then joined South Wales Electricity as Contracts Manager and after a while
moved to Centregreat as Managing Director. He is now the Chairman of Centregreat Group
and is responsible for the overseeing and strategic direction of the group of companies that
make up the Centregreat Group. Jerome is also the current Chair of the HEA.
value this essential and professional service in the same
way as most residents do.
How do you think the current
economic climate is affecting
the industry on the ground
level?
We’ve seen a slight increase
in work due to investing in
energy savings, but after that
with LED technologies and
political uncertainty, life may
be more difficult.
What is your proudest career
achievement?
Being the first company in
the UK to do live connections direct for Local Government.
In your opinion, which technological development has
had most impact on your
area of the industry?
Only one answer, LED.
In your opinion, what is the
greatest challenge that the
industry faces?
The continued undervaluing
of the lighting and highway
electrical industry. We have
professionals working across
the industry, and this is being
confirmed through the
awarding of NVQs, everyone
needs to recognise how far
we’ve come from the early
days of street lighting and
What advice would you give
someone who is just starting
out in their career?
Work hard, you only get out
of life what you put in.
What are your strengths?
My experience, a clear vision,
planning and putting people
first.
What do you think the key issues and developments will
be in the industry this year?
NVQ, CPC and CE Marking
are all things to think about
this year. Also educating
stakeholders that they cannot “fit and forget” LEDs
until they go out.
What is one of your earliest
memories?
First day at school. It was
emotional leaving my family
for the first time, even for a
short while!
How do you relax?
I watch Swansea City Football Club play.
Who is your hero?
My hero is one of my friends,
Paul, who has fought seven
bouts of cancer over the last
12 years, but continues to
turn up for work and look
after his family. He has always put his family first and
that puts life’s priorities
firmly into perspective.
What is your favourite place
in the world?
Australia.
When are you happiest?
At home with my family and
friends.
What are you currently reading?
Alex Ferguson’s biography.
What is your favourite film?
Ryan’s Daughter.
What is your favourite song?
Hymns and Arias, by Max
Boyce.
What would your desert island luxury be?
I’d like a TV so I could watch
all the sport from around the
world.
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Highways
Warning Issued
About Fake
Publications
The Institution of Engineering and
Technology has issued a warning
about the dangers of using counterfeit copies of key publications
like the IET Wiring Regulations BS
7671:2008(2011). The announcement comes after Kent Trading
Standards seized a consignment of
counterfeit copies of the IET
Wiring Regulations at Dover.
As the authority on electrical standards, the IET has issued a warning
to the electrical industry to ensure
that all copies of key publications
are purchased from reputable
sources or directly from the IET
website. Members of the electrical
industry who believe they may
have bought a fake copy of the
regulations are asked to get in
touch with the IET at the email address below in order to help the
organisation to discover where
counterfeit copies are being sold.
The IET has also warned that counterfeit copies of IET Guidance
Note 3 Inspection and Testing and
the IET On-Site Guide are being
sold and have the potential to
cause harm to individuals using
them as the result of false and incomplete information contained
within them.
If you believe you may
have purchased a
counterfeit copy of any
of these publications,
contact the IET at this
email address:
books@theiet.org
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EM Wins £599M Highways Deal
EM Highway Services, Mouchel’s
highways business, has won a £599
million deal to maintain major
roads in the West Midlands. EM
was awarded the five-year area 9
asset support contract by the Highways Agency. The contract covers
over 450 miles of major roads including the M5, M6, M40 and the
M42.
Tim Harbot, divisional director for
the Highways Agency’s Midlands
region commented on the award:
“By specifying the outcomes required for a safe and well-maintained road network, and giving
suppliers greater freedom to innovate to achieve those outcomes,
asset support contracts incentivise
our supply chain to deliver results
for road users and will achieve significant cost savings too.”
Cubic Acquires Serco’s Transport
Solutions Business
Cubic Corporation has announced
that it has completed the acquisition of Serco’s Transport Solutions
business for an enterprise value of
£43.5 million.
Serco’s Transport Solutions business employs 253 people across
the UK and three in Australia. It has
specialised in the development
and supply of complex traffic management systems for the monitoring and control of urban and intraurban road networks for over 20
years. The business also supplies
safety camera and associated back
office solutions as well as installation and maintenance of intelligent
transport systems and equipment.
It currently maintains over a third
of London’s traffic lights. The
Transport Solutions business will
become part of Cubic Transportation Systems, a leading integrator
of payment and information technology and intelligent services for
travel solutions.
Steve Shewmaker, president of Cubic Transportation Systems and ex-
ecutive vice-president of Cubic
Corporation commented on the
acquisition: “We’re delighted that
Serco’s Transport Solutions team
today becomes part of the Cubic
family. the business has excellent
knowledge and capability in the
enforcement, road and traffic markets, which is integral to our own
NextCity vision of integrated solutions that help transport operators
manage their operations and services and give travellers informed
choices when deciding how and
when to make their journeys.
Additionally, Transport Solutions
includes amongst its customers
Transport for London and Transport for New South Wales, which
are already Cubic customers, as
well as other major organisations
such as the Highways Agency and
Transport Scotland. Taken all together the business mix means the
acquisition and subsequent integration of the business is a move
that is both logical and exciting for
Cubic.”
Cameras
M25 Speed Cameras Not in Use for Legal Reasons
It has emerged that speed cameras
monitoring the M25 have not been
switched on in the five years since
they were installed.
The cameras are located behind
electronic variable speed limit
signs on overhead gantries all
round the 117 mile stretch of the
M25. However, as they were installed without the correct legal
approval that images taken by the
cameras may be used in court,
they have mostly remained
switched off, with just three miles
of the road (between junctions 2
and 3 in Kent) covered by working
cameras.
David Davies, executive director of
the Parliamentary Advisory Council
for Transport Safety acknowledged
that the situation was poor: “It’s a
cock-up. It’s poor that it has gone
on for so long. It’s also a waste of
money, the National Audit Office
should have a look at this.”
The legal issues with the cameras
were compounded by technical
problems when responsibility for
their operation passed from the
Metropolitan Police to Surrey Police, but the Highways Agency issued assurances that cameras between junctions 10 and 16 would
be up and running by this summer.
Highways Agency Begins M6 VMS and CCTV Project
The Highways Agency has begun
work to install new CCTV cameras
and variable message signs (VMS)
on the M6 in Lancashire to monitor
traffic and provide drivers with upto-date traffic information and
weather warnings.
Four variable message signs with
CCTV cameras mounted on them
will be installed around junction 33,
a mile and half a mile in each direction from the junction, with a fifth
stand-alone camera at the junction
itself.
Highways Agency project sponsor,
Dan Foster said that the improved
intelligence from the cameras will
make it easier to monitor and respond to incidents on the road,
hopefully boosting safety and improving journey time on the M6.
He commented: “This significant
investment in technology along
this section of the M6 in Lancashire
is being delivered through the government’s pinch point programme
and will boost the amount and frequency of information we can give
to motorway users, helping to provide safer and more reliable journeys.”
The government’s pinch point programme was created with the assistance of local authorities and enterprise partnerships to reduce
congestion at certain pinch points
on the country’s road network. The
North West Regional Control Centre at Newton-le-Willows is part of
the project and will monitor the
new cameras being installed on the
M6.
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Traffic Lights
Eye-Level Lights for Cyclists Installed by TfL
Transport Minister, Stephen Hammond has announced that he has
granted permission for Transport
for London (TfL) to install new
lights which repeat the signal dis-
played on main traffic lights at the
eye level of cyclists. He welcomed
innovative designs from local authorities, saying that the government is keen for cycling to be
made safer: “Over the last few
years we’ve worked very closely
with Transport for London to deliver better infrastructure for cyclists. Transport for London are
working hard on proposals to make
cycling safer and these low-level
lights mean that cyclists will have
dedicated traffic lights that give
them the information they need.”
The first eye-level lights have been
installed at the Bow roundabout in
east London, with eleven further
locations lined up where TfL plans
to use the lights, including the
junctions where Cycle Superhighway 7 crosses London Road and St
George’s Road in Elephant and
Castle.
London Mayor Boris Johnson, himself a keen cyclist, commented:
“This is very good news for cyclists
in London and across the country.
Just one of a number of safety
measures we’ve been discussing
with the government, this new
piece of infrastructure forms a key
element of our cycling vision for
London.”
IAM Suggests Shared Space Approach for Wales
Tim Shallcross of the Institute of
Advanced Motorists (IAM) has suggested that Wales’ traffic lights be
culled in favour of shared space
junctions, arguing that the approach would be ideal for many
communities in the country.
Mr Shallcross, who lives in Carmarthenshire, said that Cardiff Bay,
home of the Millenium Centre and
the Welsh National Assembly,
would be an excellent place to try
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a shared space scheme. He suggested that many of Cardiff Bay’s
traffic signal’s were unnecessary: “I
always get the impression that
nowhere near the traffic volumes
materialised that they anticipated, I
think they thought it would be a
hustling bustling hive of a place,
but you don’t see people trooping
there by the thousands. A shared
space might encourage more of a
street-life environment.”
Shared space is not generally a
concept favoured in Wales however, “A lot of people think I
should be certified for suggesting
such a thing.” said Mr Shallcross:
“There are lots of small towns and
village centres and so on throughout Wales that would benefit from
the shared space approach, but we
would need first of all to get drivers and pedestrians to understand
what they are.”
Health & Safety
HSE Issues New Guidance on Working at Height
The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) has launched new guidance
for working at height as part of the
government’s long-term economic
plan to abolish or improve outdated, burdensome or over-complicated regulations.
It is estimated that more than a
million British businesses, and
some 10 million workers carry out
jobs that involve some sort of work
at height every year and it is hoped
that the overhaul of the regulations
will lead to clarity on the guidance
for such activity.
The new guidance sets out clear
and simple advice on what to do
and not to do when working at
height, it aims to help workers understand their responsibility for
their own safety and to debunk
persistent myths. The guidance
also offers targeted advice to help
businesses manage serious risks in
a sensible and proportionate manner.
Judith Hackitt, Chair of the HSE
commented on the new guidance:
“It’s important to get working at
height right. Falls remain one of
the biggest causes of serious workplace injury – with more than 40
people killed and 4,000 suffering
major injuries every year.”
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A new fleet of eight electric buses
has begun to operate along a busy
route in Milton Keynes. The fleet
will run on the 15 mile Number 7
route between the suburbs of
Wolverton and Bletchley and will
carry around 800,000 passengers a
year.
The buses were built by Wrightbus
and are operating as part of a fiveyear trial programme led by the
European division of the Japanese
company, Mitsui and UK engineering group, Arup. The first of their
kind to operate in the UK, they are
designed to run for longer than
regular electric vehicles, something
which they achieve by using inductive charging. After charging
overnight at the depot, the buses
will run all day, receiving booster
charges at each end of the journey.
The buses are charged by plates
buried in the road surface at each
end of the route. The bus is parked
on the plate, lowered to within
4cm of the road surface and
charged by electricity passing
through wire coils in the road
plates, which generates a magnetic
field. This field induces a voltage
across coils in the bus plates,
charging the vehicle’s batteries.
The inductive charging system is
already being used in Turin and
Genoa in Italy, Utrecht in the
Netherlands and Mannheim, Germany. In South Korea a 7.5 mile
stretch of highway is now in use
that uses the system to recharge
vehicles as they drive in the same
way as that proposed for the Dutch
Smart Highways project (see page
23). Frequent recharging during
the course of the day means that
the vehicles may be fitted with
smaller batteries, reducing the
amount of power needed to drive
them.
John Bint of Milton Keynes Council
commented on the project: “Electric buses have huge potential and
we’re exploring how they can help
us take better care of the environment without compromising passenger service … With the help of
the project collaborators, we’ll be
monitoring the buses closely over
the next five years.”
Arup consultant and engineering
research professor at Cambridge
University, John Miles said of the
trial: “These electric buses will be
expected to do everything a diesel
bus does. They will be operating
on a demanding urban route, and
that’s all part of the trial’s aim; to
prove that electric buses can be
tough as well as green.”
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Energy
UK Energy Bill Becomes Law
The UK Energy Bill became law in
January after being given Royal Assent by the Queen. This ended the
bill’s three-year progression from
consultation through parliamentary
stages in both houses to royal approval.
The bill is set to change the UK’s
energy market with the most significant reforms since privatisation.
The intention is to incentivise £110
billion of private sector investment
in the energy sector in order to replace the UK’s ageing energy infrastructure and match increasing demand.
The Energy Market Reform (EMR)
programme will implement a new
system of financial incentives to
ensure that low-carbon electricity
generators can compete in the
marketplace. This will be backed
up by a ‘capacity market’ to maintain reliable electricity supply. A
new scheme of ‘Contracts for Difference’ (CfDs) is to replace existing incentive schemes, providing
guaranteed payments to renewables while enabling the operators
to claw back money when market
prices are high.
The legislation will also pave the
way for the Government to set a
target for decarbonisation of the
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power sector by 2030 and will help
get renewables projects started,
the government’s aim being the
generation of 15 per cent of the
UK’s energy from renewables by
2020. The new measures are expected to attract around £40 billion of investment in renewable energy by 2020, creating around
200,000 green jobs. Liberal Democrat Energy and Climate Change
Secretary, Ed Davey commented
on the bill: “The renewables industry is a British success story. Liberal
Democrats know that green jobs
and industry must be at the heart
of the stronger economy and fairer
society we are building. That is
what the Energy Act delivers.”
Maria McCafferty, Chief Executive
of RenewableUK commented:
“This has been a long and sometimes arduous process for everyone involved but we recognise that
the Energy Bill has now become
legislation and the framework for
development beyond 2017 is
known … There is still much work
to be done between government
and industry to ensure that obstacles are removed and much
needed clean and domestic
sources of energy can come forward.”
New Battery
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Renewables
More Reliable
A team of researchers from Harvard University has made important steps towards improving the
storage of electricity from intermittent sources such as wind and solar. The team has found a way to
drive down the cost of flow battery
technology allowing the storage of
energy on large scales. This advancement could have a significant
impact on the renewable energy
market, making wind and solar energy more economical and reliable.
Most flow batteries have metalbased chemistry, often using vanadium, although some contain precious metals such as platinum as
catalysts. This makes the cost of
these batteries relatively high. The
battery created by the Harvard
team has a metal-free chemistry
and uses no precious metal catalyst. It relies instead on organic
compounds called quinones, which
are similar to chemicals that store
energy in plants and animals.
Quinones are present in all green
vegetables, so they are cheap and
plentiful. Professor Michael Aziz of
the Harvard School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences commented
on the work: “What do you do
when the sun isn’t shining and the
wind isn’t blowing? This problem is
the one we think we can solve with
a way to store massive amounts of
electrical energy, if we can make it
cost-effective and safe. And we
think we have taken a big step in
that direction now.”
Energy
UK Opposes European Ministers Over 2030 Goal for
Renewable Energy Use
Ministers from France, Germany,
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Portugal have called
for the European Union to sign up
to a 2030 target for renewable energy use in opposition to their
British counterpart, Ed Davey, who
advocates a target for greenhouse
emissions.
In a letter sent to Connie Hedegaard, EU commissioner for climate action, ministers from the
eight countries suggested that a
2030 goal for renewables, which
they propose as part of a package
of EU measures on climate change,
would cut dependency on fossil
fuel imports, create jobs and boost
economic growth. The letter, seen
by Reuters, states: “A target for renewable energy is crucial to provide certainty that can ensure costeffective investments in energy
systems that will strengthen the internal market for energy.”
The Commission is considering a
40 per cent emissions reduction
target and a 30 per cent renewables goal for 2030. The two goals
would succeed the three 2020 tar-
gets of a 20 per cent emissions cut
and energy savings of 20 per cent
from 1990 levels and a 20 per cent
share in the market for renewables.
Britain’s Energy and Climate
Change Secretary, Ed Davey, along
with his Czech counterpart, believe
however that a single binding goal
to cut greenhouse gas emissions
by 2030 and head off climate
change could be cheaper and allow governments the flexibility to
choose how they cut emissions, for
example by increasing reliance on
nuclear power. Their proposal
would entail an emissions cut of 50
per cent from 1990 levels. Ed
Davey said of the targets: “We
need a technology neutral approach to how individual countries
meet their emissions targets … we
will therefore oppose a renewable
energy target at EU level as inflexible and unnecessary.”
Labour is also opposed to a new
renewable energy target. Shadow
minister for Energy and Climate
Change, Tom Greatrex commented: “Tackling the complex
challenge of climate change re-
quires policies and targets which
are sufficiently flexible to accommodate ever-elvolving solutions.
We remain unconvinced that a
2030 renewables target provides
this necessary optionality [sic] since
it overlooks a number of low-carbon but non-renewable technologies, such as carbon capture and
storage.”
A draft report by the European
Commission on the impact of setting different targets suggests that
the proposed two targets (for
greenhouse gas emissions and renewables) would create around
568,000 more jobs across Europe
than a single emissions target, but
the cost would be 2.6 per cent
higher. Maf Smith, Deputy Chief
Executive of RenewableUK said
that the EU should make the 2030
renewables target a matter of priority: “If the EU were to fail to step
up to the mark on this, it would be
more difficult for renewable energy
developers to attract much needed
investment in their projects as it
would push up the cost of raising
capital.”
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How Safe Are Your Streets?
Fiona Michie takes a detailed look at the results of the 2013 Neighbourhood Watch
Network / Suzy Lamplugh Trust Survey on Street Lighting and Perceptions of Safety.
The Neighbourhood Watch Network (NHWN) in collaboration with
the Suzy Lamplugh Trust has conducted a survey into the public
perception of safety, with specific
reference to changes in street
lighting. The idea is an interesting
one for our industry as the public
perception of safety is a crucial, if
somewhat nebulous, factor in the
success or otherwise of projects to
reduce street lighting, dim lights or
move to partial night switch off. A
project may result in both monetary and carbon emissions savings,
but if people feel unsafe in their
own neighbourhoods, it has failed
in a fundamental way. However, as
many authorities have no doubt
found, perception of safety is a
hard thing to measure and can
sometimes bear no relation to actual risk or crime statistics.
The Survey
The survey consisted of 21 questions, most of which offered a scale
of options such as very safe, fairly
safe, a bit unsafe and very unsafe.
There were 15,786 respondents in
total, with a roughly even male/female split. The age range of respondents was logged as was geographical distribution by police
force area.
The survey questions can be divided into three key topics: perception of safety, perception of
changes to street lighting, and perception of crime rates. All questions were directed purely at the
respondents’ feeling for these
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things, not actual knowledge.
Perceptions of Safety
There were three questions relating to safety:
Do you feel safe when out and
about during the day?
Are you ever out on the street in
your neighbourhood at any time
between 9.30 pm and 5.30 am?
Do you feel safe when out and
about in your neighbourhood between 9.30 pm and 5.30 am?
The majority of respondents felt
safe always or most of the time in
their neighbourhoods during the
day, with less than 1% saying that
they seldom or never felt safe.
When asked about the hours of
9.30 pm to 5.30 am, the figures
changed somewhat, with a higher
percentage of respondents to
whom the questions were applicable saying they seldom (11%) or
never (5%) felt safe. A surprisingly
high number of respondents (82%)
who are out and about between
9.30 pm and 5.30 am said they feel
safe most or all of the time.
Street Lighting
The survey asked a series of questions about perceptions of street
lighting:
Do you have street lighting in your
neighbourhood?
Are streetlights switched off or
dimmed between 9.30 pm and
5.30 am where you live?
Have you noticed any changes to
the street lighting in your neighbourhood within the last 3 years?
If yes to the last question, since
you noticed the changes do you
feel… (options given were: are
safer in your neighbourhood at
night, about the same, and less
safe in your neighbourhood at
night)?
How safe do you feel when walking
in a well-lit neighbourhood?
How safe do you feel when walking
in an unlit or badly lit neighbourhood?
Does lack of good lighting ever
make you… (options given were:
take taxis instead of walking, avoid
walking alone in those areas after
dark, go out less in the evenings,
and other)?
Of the respondents, 90% said they
had street lighting in their neighbourhood, although a high proportion (29%) were unsure whether
lights were dimmed during the
hours stated. 38% said they had
seen changes to their neighbourhood’s street lighting in the past
three years, although it should be
noted that due to the wording of
this question, the 38% covers both
reduction of lighting and improvements to street lighting. Of those
who said they had seen changes,
38% had noticed a reduction in
street lighting, be it through dimming, partial night switch off, poor
maintenance or the introduction of
motion sensors. 23% of these people felt that the reduction was a
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negative thing, 4% thought it was
a positive thing and 73% made no
comment either way. On the questions relating to lighting and the
feeling of safety, 93% felt very or
fairly safe in well-lit areas. On the
flip side, 75% said they felt a bit
unsafe or very unsafe in unlit and
poorly lit areas.
One of the key questions is that relating to how lack of good street
lighting can effect behaviour patterns. The survey shows that lighting does have an effect on people’s lives, with 56% of
respondents saying they would
avoid ill-lit areas after dark and a
quite significant 33% saying they
would go out less if lighting were
poor. This question was accompanied by comments in many cases
however, with many people pointing out that their assessment of
personal safety would depend on
many factors, not just street lighting. Factors cited were location,
reputation of the area, design of
the streetscape, the number of
people likely to be around and
whether or not it was around pub
closing time.
Crime Rates
The last section dealt both with
perceptions of crime rates and actual instances of crime and anti-social behaviour. The following questions were asked:
Which of the following statements
best expresses how you feel about
crime rates in your area over the
last three years…(options were: I
feel like crime rates have gone up,
I feel like crime rates have gone
down, I haven’t noticed any
change / I feel like crime rates have
stayed about the same, and not
sure)?
Which of the following statements
best expresses how you feel about
anti-social behaviour in your area
over the last three years…(same
options as above)?
Have you been a victim of crime or
anti-social behaviour this year
(2013)?
Were you a victim of crime or antisocial behaviour in 2012?
The majority of people fell into the
category of not noticing any
change to both crime and anti-social behaviour, but women were
more likely than men to feel that
crime and anti-social behaviour
rates had increased.
Potential problems with the
Survey
Whilst this survey provides some
interesting insights into the perception of personal safety and
crime rates and how this relates to
the presence or otherwise of street
lighting, there are a couple of
problems that I can see with its results.
Firstly, the survey’s coverage of the
country can only be described as
patchy, with a very high number of
respondents from the Thames Valley (3,809), North Yorkshire (1,913),
Cambridgeshire (1,429), Notting-
hamshire (1,168) and Dorset
(1,020). Given that some of the
country’s major urban areas were
poorly represented, with Metropolitan (London) only having 459 respondents, Merseyside 14 and
Greater Manchester 79, it is fair to
say that the survey was heavily biased towards suburban and rural
areas. To give an idea, London,
which represents 13% of the population of England and Wales is only
represented by 3% of respondents
to the survey.
Age coverage is another element
which quite probably skews the results of the survey, with 8,311 respondents (53%) in the 51-70 age
group. Younger age groups are
very poorly represented with only
20 respondents being under 18
and 133 falling into the 18-24 age
group. Together these two groups
represent less than 1% of respondents.
Summary
In summary, we get from the survey a feeling that for people living
in suburban and rural areas, especially those between the ages of 51
and 70, street lighting is a significant contributory factor to perceptions of personal safety, with relatively high numbers of people who
would consider modifying their behaviour if lighting were poor. What
we don’t see unfortunately is how
public perceptions of safety, street
lighting and crime rates match up
to the reality in those areas.
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Lighting
Glasgow to use
Green Loan for
New Lighting
Edinburgh Plans to Overhaul
Street Lighting
Plans to overhaul Edinburgh’s
street lighting have been drawn up
in a bid to save money on energy
bills and improve the quality of
light on the city’s streets.
The initial phase of the project will
see 6,000 of Edinburgh’s lights
converted to LED, paid for by a
£2.1 million interest-free loan, but
the aim is to roll out the project
across the city, at an estimated
cost of £30 million.
Councillor Lesley Hinds, transport
and environment covener said of
the plans: “The aspiration is to replace all street lighting in the city
and try to do it with interest-free
funding. this means it is not costing council taxpayers anything and
is actually saving money as it goes
on and energy costs rise.”
Edinburgh currently spends £2.97
million per year on public lighting,
which includes £800,000 a year on
the lighting inside tenement stairwells. It is estimated that the conversion to LED, which may also in-
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clude some of these stairwells, will
help the authority to achieve
around 40 per cent savings on its
energy bills.
LED lighting has been trialled in
Saughton Mains and Gilmerton
Dykes to an 80 per cent approval
rating from the public. Sustainability lead councillor, Jim Orr commented: “The LED lights were
found to make streets look crisper
and better and that’s why they
were so well received in the two pilot schemes … We were delighted
with the results of the pilot, which
really highlights the benefits of
modern, efficient LED lights.”
rom April 2014, street lighting will
be included in the carbon reduction commitment tax, meaning that
authorities will have to start paying
carbon tax on lighting energy consumption. The new lumieres will
ensure a reduction in energy use
and therefore savings on future
carbon taxes.
Glasgow City Council has become
the first authority in the UK to take
advantage of the ‘Green Loan’
scheme run by the Green Investment Bank (GIB). The council will
use the loan to upgrade the city’s
network of 72,000 ageing sodium
lamps.
The first phase will be installation
of 10,000 new luminaries at an estimated cost of £8.6 million, but it is
hoped that most of the city’s lighting will be replaced by LEDs by the
end of 2015, in good time for the
200th anniversary of the introduction of municipal lighting in Glasgow in 2018.
It is estimated that the move will
save the council £8.9 million over
18 years, cutting carbon emissions
by 45,387 tonnes. Council leader,
Gordon Matheson commented:
“Glasgow City Council is not only
creating a digital and low-carbon
route out of recession with social
justice at its heart, but also ensuring Glasgow is one of Europe’s
most sustainable cities.”
Lighting
PLDA Applies to Courts for Voluntary Liquidation
It has been reported that the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association (PLDA) will become officially insolvent in the next few
months after an application to the
courts in Germany for voluntary liquidation.
The decision came after the Association’s sponsors withdrew financial support following a loss in a
court case in which the PLDA was
ordered to pay damages of
EUR 33,000 to the German publisher of PLD magazine. With further court cases possible between
the two organisations, voluntary
liquidation was seen to be the best
solution for the Association, which
is also suffering ongoing financial
problems due to several years
worth of unpaid membership fees.
Koert Vermeulen, Director for
Membership at the PLDA commented on the situation: “It has
been a difficult time for everyone
involved in the PLDA. I will be trying my best, along with the remaining members of the board, to work
through this and find the best solution for our Association. I firmly believe that the PLDA has a future.
What form that future will take has
not yet been decided.”
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The council has been dimming 50
streetlights out of its total of
10,000 but has declined to make
public any information regarding
the trials, saying that the sites must
remain anonymous until results
have been compiled.
The Labour Party expressed concern over the council’s secrecy,
suggesting that the under the
radar approach prevented public
debate on the issue. Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for Poplar and Limehouse criticised the move, saying
the public should have been
alerted to what the council was
planning: “If the council is turning
off lights to save money then residents need to be properly consulted. Any back door attempt to
turn off street lighting is bad for
public safety and plain wrong.”
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Night Mapping Provides Valuable Light Waste Data
A research project at the University
of Leicester, funded by aerial survey specialists, Bluesky, is to map
the country’s urban areas at night.
The project aims to produce data
on light pollution and energy
wastage in urban environments
which it is hoped will help local authorities and conservation organisations to assess light pollution
and provide intelligence to help to
reduce unnecessary illumination
and focus lighting infrastructure
where it is most needed.
The Night Mapper system involves
a camera which has been specially
adapted to cope with low light levels and low temperatures it will encounter during night time aerial
surveying. The camera will be used
alongside a Light Imaging Detection and Ranging system (LiDAR)
which uses lasers mounted on an
aircraft to accurately determine the
distance between the sensor and
the ground or other targets such as
buildings and vegetation and also
a thermal infra-red imaging system.
James Eddy, Technical Director of
Bluesky and Industrial Associate at
the University of Leicester com-
Leicester at night, showing efficient and inefficient lighting
mented: “By integrating a camera
specially adapted to cope with the
challenges of night time surveying
within our state of the art aerial
mapping system we can ensure
high levels of positional accuracy
for the night time images. Co-capturing detailed 3D measurements
and thermal images will provide
additional intelligence relating
night time light levels to heat loss
and height.”
When the survey is complete, the
images produced by the new sys-
tem will be suitable for use in a
desktop mapping tool or geographical information system (GIS).
In particular it can be used as an
aid for local authorities in development plans, when planning environmental zones for exterior lighting control. The images could also
be used as an aid for street lighting
inventories and condition assessments, identifying luminaires that
need maintenance work or replacement.
Bournemouth Considers Wi-fi via its Streetlights
Bournemouth Borough Council has
revealed plans to use streetlights
to provide wi-fi access in public
places.
The council is conducting a feasibility study into using lighting
columns to provide wi-fi access
across the borough, including on
the beach and Gardens. The possibility is seen as an added bonus to
the scheme to upgrade all of the
town’s 16,500 streetlights to LED
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luminaires. The council has received £4.26 million in funding for
this project from Salix, the government energy projects funding
provider and it will provide the additional £3.5 million from its own
prudential fund. Councillor Michael
Filer commented: “If we’re able to
proceed, we would be amongst
the world leaders in this field. It’s
all good news.”
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Sydney Harbour Tunnel Uses Radical Safety Warning
A radical new safety warning system which combats the problem of
drivers ignoring stop signs has
been installed in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel. The Softstop barrier
system produces a pseudo-holographic image projected on to a
curtain of water, which appears to
float in mid air directly in the line
of vision of drivers. The system, developed by Laservision, creates the
illusion of a solid surface that instantly blocks both southbound
lanes of traffic in the tunnel, mak-
ing the ‘STOP’ message impossible
to ignore, unlike conventional signage which only appears in the peripheral vision of the driver.
The Sydney Harbour Tunnel passes
under Sydney Harbour between
the Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House. It was originally
built towww.studioroosegaarde.net
alleviate congestion on the
bridge and now on average a total
of 30 million vehicles use it every
year. Since opening it has seen
over 10,500 traffic incidents from
accidents and breakdowns to seri-
ous fires. It was one such fire which
prompted the tunnel authority to
look for a new solution to the
problem of motorists ignoring stop
signs. General Manager of the tunnel, Bob Allen explained what happened: “We had a fire in the tunnel, motorists ignored the warning
lights and signs and continued to
drive towards the fire.These drivers
exposed themselves to smoke and
toxic fumes and then, to compound the situation, they turned
around [in a one-way tunnel] and
drove back out of the tunnel
against incoming traffic.”
Although the Softstop barrier produces a confronting ‘STOP’ message in the path of traffic, it still allows emergency teams through
and also provides for the fact that
some motorists will not have time
to stop completely before they
reach it. As the image is projected
on jets of water, they will pass
safely through it. Once the traffic
has reached a standstill, a second,
physical barrier will be used.
The Netherlands Introduces the Smart Highway
The first parts of The Netherlands’
smart highway to be completed
were opened to the public during
Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven
at the end of 2013. The brainchild
of Studio Roosegaarde, it involves
several new technologies that focus on making the country’s roads
more sustainable and interactive.
The first phase of the project introduced glow-in-the-dark roads,
these are treated with foto-luminising powder which charges in daylight and then illuminates the lines
of the road at night for up to 10
hours. The Netherlands is also introducing dynamic paint, a paint
which becomes visible with fluctuations in temperature, so that when
it hits -5C, the surface of the road
is illustrated with images of
snowflakes, as the temperature
rises, the images disappear.
Later phases will include the introduction of wind-driven lights and
an electric priority lane which
recharges cars as they are driven
along it.
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Case Study: Meir Tunnel
Philips Lighting for Amey, on behalf of the Highways Agency
Background
Prior to the upgrade, the lighting in the 284m Meir Tunnel was designed to comply with an older standard for tunnel lighting – BS5489. This was achieved using a combination of fluorescent and high pressure sodium light sources,
resulting in a relatively energy-inefficient system with high maintenance costs. Frequent re-lamping was causing regular closures and disruption to the public. The decision was therefore made to take advantage of the latest LED
technologies to improve environmental performance and the quality of the lighting for motorists whilst also reducing lifecycle costs. The work was carried out by the Industrial Services North West division of SPIE for AMEY, the
principal contractor for the Highways Agency. It involved completely stripping out the existing lighting system and
replacing it with over six hundred Philips T-line LED luminaires. The fast-track project was carried out on a rolling
night shift, with the tunnel¹s traffic management system removed every morning to allow normal traffic use during
rush hour. The SPIE team completed the work one week ahead of programme, thereby saving substantial traffic
management costs.
The Solution
The new system has been designed to BS 5489:2 2008 and uses two versions of the Philips T-line road tunnel luminaire to provide a true linear lighting scheme with exceptional uniformity and greatly improved colour rendering
compared to the previous scheme. A key benefit of using a linear lighting design is in the very unlikely event that a
luminaire should fail, it would have very little effect on the overall scheme. In contrast, a point-source installation can
fall below minimum lighting levels if only one or two lamps fail. LED light sources also deliver instant start-up following a power failure, eliminating the potentially dangerous re-strike period required for high pressure sodium lamps.
Furthermore, the LED light sources are less susceptible to low ambient temperatures, which can significantly reduce
the lumen output of fluorescent lamps. The LED light sources are fully dimmable. Two versions of the T-line luminaires have been used to achieve the required luminances within the tunnel. Levels in the threshold zones of approximately 156 cd/mÇ were achieved by using 13,545 lm T-line luminaires, while the interior zone uses 5,265 lm Tlines to provide a luminance of >2.0 cd/mÇ in the day, dimming to >1.5 cd/mÇ at night. The lighting is dimmed
continuously during daylight hours in line with the dynamic external luminance (L20). As natural daylight levels increase, so too does the light output of the tunnel lighting to maintain a critical ratio that avoids drivers approaching
a ‘black hole’. At night a lower light level is maintained by dimming selected luminaires to complement the street
lighting level on the approach roads. Wall mounted control panels in each plant room display status and alarms and
allow maintenance reports to be generated.The result of the upgrade project is that the annual energy consumption
of the tunnel lighting has been reduced from 660 MWh to 154 MWh, cutting carbon emissions by 275 tonnes per
annum with a financial saving on energy costs of nearly £64,000.
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Press releases
Harvard Engineering Collaborates with Architectural
Lighting Works
Harvard Engineering has formed a
strategic partnership with Architectural Lighting Works.
Harvard has designed 1ft and 2ft
light engines, optimised by the
UNI Analog Switchable driver, exclusively for the company. The light
engines have a push wire connection, making them extremely easy
to install into any application.
The UNI Analog driver was chosen
as it has dual switchable drive cur-
rents and offers flexible 120V-277V
mains input, reducing the number
of different LED drivers required
for any possibility of Architectural
Lighting Works linear fixture configurations. The driver also provides smooth 0-10V Analog dimming to 5%.
The LEDs will also have colorimetric binning. This will allow them to
be segregated into groups, or
‘bins’, with each different ‘bin’
varying in colour. This will allow
colour matches if additional lights
need to be added or if problems
occur with any lights in an installation, to ensure colour consistency
throughout.
Shira Steinbeck, CEO of Architectural Lighting Works, specialists in
the design and manufacture of
made to measure linear and custom lighting, commented: “The
light engines created by Harvard
are perfect for Architectural Lighting Works. Not only do they provide a flexible solution which is
easy to fit, but the use of the UNI
Analog Switchable driver means
that the number of drivers required
has been significantly reduced,
making it a very cost effective solution.”
SSE Contracting Celebrates NVQ Graduation Day
SSE Contracting celebrated the latest tranche of successful NVQ
learners at their Graduation Day in
December 2013. Organised at
their offices and training facility in
Thatcham, the day saw employees
from all over the UK converge to
receive their certificates from SSE’s
Director of Lighting Services, Phil
Yates, accompanied by the SSE
Contracting Assessment and Verification Team, including the External
Verifier, Gareth Pritchard of the
HEA.
In total, 40 certificates were presented to the successful candidates across both levels 2 and 3 of
the highway electrical NVQs. Both
Phil Yates and Gareth Pritchard
commented on the candidates’
achievements and the fact that
they should be proud to have their
competence recognised through
the industry standard NVQ qualification. Centre IQA, Mark Alford,
said: “I’d like to congratulate all
the candidates on achieving this
qualification. Its great to see all
their hard work and commitment
rewarded. Also, well done to the
assessment team who have worked
hard to help make this programme
a success."
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Press releases
Colas Repairs Damage to Newhaven Swing Bridge
On 12th December 2013, Colas
electricians were called upon to assist after storm-force gales and
tidal surges caused severe damage
to the mechanics of the Newhaven
Swing Bridge.
Located less than a mile inland
from the English Channel, the 30
year-old bridge has its motors and
rotating controls housed beneath
the bridge deck on a purpose built
pontoon. The design was thought
to be high enough to be out of
reach of any tidal surge, but on the
12th, flood waters rose one metre
above any previous surge to
breach its control room and electrical system. The power outage
caused some disruption to traffic
using the A259 at the River Ouse.
Tasks included pumping out the
plinth area by hand and overhauling the hydraulic tank and locking
mechanism. Some issues were encountered when trying to locate
replacement motors and controls,
due to the age of the equipment,
but eventually a motor weighing
250 kg was located and tested.
As there is only a small walkway to
the control plinth, all heavy equipment had to be lowered in from
the road deck. This meant temporarily closing the bridge so that
the faulty equipment could be
taken out and the new lifted into
place. Pedestrian barriers were removed prior to the night-time procedure to enable a heavy lift crane
vehicle, supplied by Colas, to extend its stabilisers for the maximum outreach lift from the road
deck across the paved area. The installation was carried out within a
15 minute bridge closure allowed
by the harbour management.
Due to the new motor’s weight,
temporary metalwork was welded
to the bridge to enable the motor
to be swung round in the restricted
area under the bridge deck by
means of a pulley system. This system was designed and fitted by
Colas’ fabrication shop.
Following almost three weeks of
repairs, the bridge was finally
tested at midnight on 30th December. The operation was a 100 per
cent success and the bridge was
opened to the public shortly after.
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Appointments
Stephen Hart Joins Signature on
the Retirement of John McGinty
John McGinty, Northern Area Sales
Engineer for Signature has retired
aged 67. John started work in the
industry at 19, working for Forest
City, a company that became part
of the Signature group in 2001,
and he’s been part of the family
ever since.
John’s area was originally the
North West of the England, but
that expanded to cover the whole
of the north, from North East Lincolnshire right across to North
Wales. With a career filled with
great achievements it’s difficult to
pick just a few. John was instrumental in developing internally illuminated zebra safe posts, which
have been a key product for Signature.
As well as the highways industry,
John has had great success with
providing solutions to British Waterways. Later in his career he had
great success with tram signals and
to top it all he remains the most
successful salesperson supplying
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interactive signs.
John is looking forward to spending some time abroad with his
partner, Christine: “Travelling is top
of my to-do-list now that I have the
time.” He said: “Signature was a
great company to work for and I’ll
really miss the guys there, but I’ll
be keeping in touch as I’ve made
some true friends over the years.”
Robin Land, Managing Director
said: “John has been a great asset
and ambassador for Signature for
many years. On behalf of the
group we’d really like to thank him
for all that he’s done and wish him
all the best for the future.”
John has handed over the reins to
Stephen Hart, formerly of Thorn
Lighting. Prior to that, Steve
worked for David Webster as a
contracts manager.
Stephen said: “I’m really looking
forward to the challenge. John’s
achievements will be difficult to
beat, but you can be sure I’ll be
giving it my best.”
Craig McKay Joins DeeOrgan on the Retirement
of John Baldacci
John Baldacci, Sales Manager with
Dee-Organ, part of the Signature
Group, has retired after many years
of loyal service. John started work
in the production department back
in 1980 and after several years he
moved into sales.
Nigel Lampowski, General Manager for Dee-Organ commented:
“John is highly respected and well
known by our Scottish and English
customers. We are really sad to see
him retire, but totally support his
decision. He made a great contribution to the industry.”
John has handed over the reins to
Craig McKay, formerly of Service
Graphics, a company specialising
in large format printing and commercial signage. Prior to that,
Craig worked for MLG Printers as a
sales executive. Craig is well
known within the graphics industry
and is used to working with projects with high demands. He said of
his appointment: “I am delighted
to have joined Dee-Organ and realise I have big boots to fill with
John’s recent decision to retire.
What has surprised me about the
group is the vast range of products
we have to offer. I relish the challenge to emulate the achievements
of my predecessor.”
Appointments
Anderson & Heeley
Appoints Paul Batson as
Street Lighting Manager
Anderson & Heeley have announced the appointment of Paul
Batson to the position of Street
Lighting Manager. Paul will be responsible for the general running
of the operations of the company,
which is a family firm, established
in Kirkburton in 1947 as plumbers
and electricians and which has specialised in street lighting for many
years.
Paul has over 20 years’ experience
in the installation and maintenance
of street lighting, traffic signs and
CCTV, and is an HEA Authorising
Officer and NICEIC Qualifying
Manager.
Geoff Anderson, Managing Director of Anderson & Heeley, said:
“As an HEA Member, we were delighted with the response after
placing our advertisement on the
HEA Jobs web page. I’m really
pleased to welcome Paul into the
company as this will reinforce our
position as a leading professional
and Quality Assured contractor in
the Highway Electrical Sector”.
Lucy Zodion Appoints David Byers
as Product Specialist
Lucy Zodion Ltd has appointed
David Byers as Product Specialist
for their range of fused products
including cut-outs, isolators and
pillars.
David has worked for W Lucy &
Co. previously and was instrumental in the development of earlier
fused product ranges. David has a
wealth of experience in new product and market development for
electrical products across a variety
of markets such as aerospace and
defence, marine and automotive.
David said of his appointment, “I
am delighted to be re-joining Lucy
Zodion during a period of focused
product and market development.
With the support of a large group
engineering parent company with
a history spanning 200 years, I am
confident we can develop the
technologically advanced products
required for a rapidly changing
global market.”
Mark Allen, Sales Director added,
“David brings with him extensive
market and product knowledge
which will enable him to further develop our products in the market.”
IET Built Environment Sector Summit: Lighting
Date: 9th April, 2014
Time: 10.00 to 14.00
Venue: Central London, TBC
Bookings website: TBC
Delegate fee: £150 plus VAT for non-members, £120 plus
VAT for members of the IET/supporting professional
bodies. Students £75 plus VAT
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Press releases
Highways Agency
Management Contract
Urbis Schréder Introduces the
Ampera LED Road Luminaire
The Highways Agency has awarded
a £600,000 contract to Atkins and
Yotta for the supply of Yotta’s Horizons visualised asset management
software and associated implementation services. The Atkins and
Yotta team will deliver and enable
the use of software to inform and
improve the development of the
Agency’s road renewals programme. This tool will allow the
Highways Agency to carry out
modelling to understand the current and future condition of the
network based on its national
pavement condition survey data.
This model will then be used to
predict where and when maintenance is likely to be needed.
The project was procured under
the Transport-Related Technical Engineering and Research Advice
Framework.
Horizons will incorporate data
gathered from a package of condition surveys. A significant proportion of the surveys is delivered by
Yotta for the Highways Agency,
which include Traffic Speed Condition Survey (TRACS), skid resistance and Deflectograph surveys as
well as providing visualised asset
coverage of England’s trunk roads
and motorways, covering approximately 18,650 lane miles (30,000
lane kilometres). The Decision Support Tool will help the Highways
Agency to visualise its asset data
and to run analyses to develop
programmes of pavement renewals
work. This will be a prime example
of best practice to support decision making within the Highways
Agency.
Urbis Schréder has added to its
range with the launch of the Ampera, an LED road luminaire.
Developed using a systematic approach to evaluate the added
value of each component, the Ampera provides maximum performance with only the essential technology to guarantee Urbis
Schréder’s high-quality standards.
The Ampera range sets a new
benchmark in LED lighting with
performing and flexible solutions
that lead to the shortest payback
time. With its tremendous efficiency and its long lifespan, the
Ampera range enables you to minimise the Total Cost of Ownership
of your installation.
The Ampera is available in three
sizes, to offer a complete solution
for the replacement of virtually all
road applications currently lit with
old light sources, including pedestrian areas, bike paths, residential
and commercial streets, rural or urban roads and motorways. The
Ampera’s slim design allows it to
blend in any type of environment.
Additional features such as motion
and speed detection and remote
management can be included
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thanks to its flexible technical concept. Due to the low initial investment and high energy savings, the
Ampera is the obvious choice for
converting old lighting equipment
to LED technology.
“From the offset, we wanted to
create a family of LED luminaires
with great flexibility to adapt to
multiple demanding situations for
an optimised investment. We evaluated every component, analysed
every detail, removed all the unnecessary elements without compromising on quality”
Explained André Papoular, the
Schréder Group CEO: “The result
is a high-performance range, fitted
with LensoFlex®2 photometric engines offering 9 different photometries, multiple driving currents and
a wide range of lumen packages
from 1,000 to 31,000 lumen. With
virtually no maintenance, and consuming considerably less energy
than high-pressure sodium and
even the latest generation ceramic
metal halide lamps, the Ampera
represents an extremely profitable
investment for more safer, comfortable and sustainable environments.”
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Contact: David Layman
Independent street lighting stockist with over 40 years
experience supplying the industry with all their needs
CONTRACT MONITORING SERVICES LTD
“Greenways”, Shipton Gorge, Bridport
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Tel: 01308 897854
Fax: 01308 898076
Contact: Mr Richard Hewlett, Managing Director
email: office@c-m-sltd.co.uk
Specialist night scouting contractor to
highway authorities & street lighting
maintenance companies throughout the UK.
SMITH BROS (CAER CONAN) WHOLESALE LTD
Greyfriars House, Sidings Court
Doncaster DN4 5NU
Tel: 01302 366922
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