Energy-efficient and eco-friendly lighting solutions implemented across three hotels in Malaysia to-date

In its first partnership with a major budget hotel chain in Asia, GE Lighting collaborates with Tune Hotels to jointly explore and implement green solutions across its portfolio of hotels. To-date, 2,876 light points have been replaced with GE’s energy-efficient and eco-friendly LED lights across three Tune Hotels in Malaysia. With the new lighting solutions for both exterior and interior environments, the three Tune Hotels stand out with high-quality illumination while enjoying energy savings and lower maintenance costs.

GE Lighting has partnered the Tune Hotels chain to jointly explore and implement green solutions across the latter’s portfolio of hotels. GE will assist Tune Hotels in reviewing, planning and designing properties by contributing its knowledge and expertise in the areas of low-cost operational “modeling”, sustainable development, cost-saving infrastructure, energy efficiency and green technology. Tune Hotels is Asia’s leading “limited service” hotel chain, providing great value accommodation, in great locations at great prices..It has a current portfolio of 26operational hotels across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, The Philippines and the United Kingdom with an ambitious development pipeline in the works. GE’s collaboration with Tune Hotels is its first such partnership with a major budget hotel chain in Asia and beyond.

Mr. Mark Lankester, CEO of Tune Hotels, commented: “For Tune Hotels, it is very important for us to operate efficiently and be eco-friendly as any savings will directly benefit our customers. We needed a global partner that understands our needs and has the scale to support us in all the countries that we want to go into. GE was a perfect match.  As we embark on an aggressive expansion plan to open 30 new hotels from 2012 across Asia and the United Kingdom, we look forward to having GE support our lighting needs. In Malaysia, we aim to be the first branded budget hotel chain in Asia to be certified to the standards of the country’s Green Building Index.”

Under the initial phase of the partnership, GE Lighting has to-date implemented its energy-efficient solutions across three Tune Hotels in Malaysia. Some 2,876 light points for both exterior and interior environments have been replaced at Tune Hotels Ipoh, Tune Hotels Kuala Lumpur. The products specified include: LED Batten and Tetra Signage System comprising the Tetra miniMAX.

Mr. O Swee Aun, Country Manager of GE Lighting Malaysia, elaborated: “It is exciting to work with a client like Tune Hotels who share our vision and commitment towards green technology. In today’s competitive business arena, adopting an energy-efficient and eco-friendly approach to lighting solutions will benefit our clients and their customers in the long term. While providing good quality illumination to meet our clients’ needs, we also look forward to offering them greater savings andat the same time, conserving natural resources. Given GE’s global presence and the breadth and depth of our range of products and technical expertise, we are a premier one-stop lighting solutions provider for all types of environments.”

Creating “Home Away from Home” Ambience for the Hotel Interiors:
The GE team aimed to create a comfortable and welcoming interior that would invite guests to relax and enjoy their stay at Tune Hotels, their ‘home away from home’.

For the three hotels, the LED Battens were installed at the Lift lobby, corridor, Toilet, room and bed pelmet.

The LED battens were used as the main ambient lighting. They were able to achieve the luminance level as required by the customer while providing greater energy savings and a more uniform lighting distribution effect as compare to conventional fluorescent lightings used previously.

GE LED Batten, with its simple appearance and compact structure, brings customers new experience of soft LED lighting. It offers a long life time of 45,000 hours, which contributes to greatly reduced maintenance and replacement costs. With the special optical design, the LED Batten provides more comfortable and uniform lighting effects for customers. In addition, the integrated design and three cove light bracket options make it more convenient for installation. LED Batten can be used in a wide range of general lighting applications, such as supermarkets, underground garage,home and display occasions.

Lighting for Distinctive Urban Landmarks
Each Tune Hotel tends to be the distinctive landmark of the city that it is in. To add a brilliant glow to the exterior façade and signage, the GE team specified the Tetra Sign age system that utilizes high luminance, energy efficiency LED that offers a consistent colour tone across the signage, enabling the true representation of the image of Tune Hotel. The high reliability of the Tetra Signage system also significantly reduces the maintenance cost of sign age, which tends to be at hard to reach areas.

The Tetra system provides for miniature channel letter lighting for logo letters and are also ideal for cove lighting, accent or border lighting for commercial buildings. The OptiLens maximizes the area of light coverage to produce outstanding uniformity. It comes with easy mounting and an over-molded design which protects the components from moisture. Users have a choice of a full range of colors including white, warm white, red, blue and green.

Reaping Returns and Reducing Environmental Impact
With GE Lighting’s new lighting solutions, Tune Hotels will enjoy estimated savings of 30-40% in terms of energy and maintenance costs. This translates to a payback period of approximately 1.6 years. From an environmental protection perspective, the energy savings is equivalent to eliminating 824, 999lbs of carbon dioxide car emissions per year, or creating 102.3 acres of new trees.