Aviation

PROJECT CASE STUDY

Gatwick Airport

Opened as an aerodrome in the late 1920s, it started taking commercial flights in 1933. Now, with over 46,000,000 passengers travelling through it every year, LGW is the second busiest single-runway in the world

The challenge

There were two main reasons LGW decided to move from sodium to LED lighting:

  • A number of their stands weren’t meeting EASA legislation.
  • They wanted to reduce their energy use by 20% compared to 1990’s levels. So, they came straight to Midstream Lighting to help them meet these challenges.

Our solution

After a complete review of LGW’s current lighting facilities, we put our internal Design Team on the case. The solution they came up with was to upgrade all sodium apron lighting to our flagship Titan Series – with over 560 LED floodlights being installed. This has made LGW the first major European airport to have a fully Led-lit and EASA-compliant apron. And more importantly, the airport is now safer for staff and passengers, it’s more secure, and with less downtime runs more smoothly.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Sector:

Aviation

Customer:

LGW

Number of passengers:

43,000,000

Runways:

1

Average stands:

119

Average aircraft movements:

275,000

Project date:

2017

LED floodlights installed:

564

Type:

Titan Series

Increase in light levels:

50%

Lux average values:

30 Lux

Energy savings:

  • 256kW vs 430kW
  • 40%
  • Payback £50,000 pa.
Gatwick Airport, Aviation Case Study

564

LED floodlights installed

50%

Increase in light levels

40%

Energy savings

15 yrs

Payback time

Gatwick Airport, Aviation Case Study
Gatwick Airport, Aviation Case Study
Gatwick Airport, Aviation Case Study
Gatwick Airport, Aviation Case Study
Gatwick Airport, Aviation Case Study

“The change was likened to coming out of the Victorian age into the modern world.”

Les Mitchel
Airside Project Delivery Lead – LGW

BEFORE & AFTER TECHNICAL COMPARISON

SODIUM LED
Number of Projectors 861 564
Nominal Power for single appliance 400 455
Appliance
Absorbed Power(measured data) 500 455
Total Power Absorbed 430.5 256.62
Colour temperature 2,300K 5,700K
Energy Consumption per year 1.885.590 1,123,996
Colour Temperature 2,300 5,700
Colour Rendering Index 30 70
Average Light Level 20 30
Uniformity 0.2 0.3
Energy Saving 40%

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London Gatwick Airport Aviation Case Study (pdf 1.00 MB)

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