King Shaka Airport (DUR)

The challenge

DUR needed to:

• Make sure its lighting complied with ICAO – the International Civil Aviation Organisations – regulations.
• Replace its current metal halide fixtures. These already had a very high lumen output. However, the halide system suffered from major light depreciation, the bulbs were losing lumen output quickly and had to be replaced constantly to keep the airport’s aprons compliant.
• It also wanted to have full control of its lighting without the need to pull any existing wiring.
• Complete the whole project as a retrofit using existing towers.

When asked why DUR chose us the reply was simple – ‘Your superior quality’.

Our solution

As we had to use the existing lighting towers, which had only a few mounting points each, a complete retrofit was needed. We also needed to keep the number of floodlights as low as possible. We used our Titan 720 and 420 flood lights because it was the only lightweight floodlight in the market that could match the light output of a 2kW metal halide fixture. The Titan’s advanced optics also meant we were able to give uniform lighting with just two floodlights per mast.

We also worked with our partner ZetaQlab, to install a full wireless control system – one of the first to be used in an airport environment.
The results speak for themselves – light levels have almost trebled, maintenance costs have dramatically fallen, and energy savings are a massive 77%.