Three forward-thinking companies on the Isle of Man are revolutionizing their office lighting with the latest LED technology.

With the help of lighting manufacturer MHA Lighting, three companies with offices in Catalina Property Services' St. Mary’s Court, a 36,000 square foot commercial building in Douglas, are significantly reducing their lighting energy consumption – savings are estimated to exceed £300,000 (NT$ 14,000) and 850 tons of Co2.

The project recently scooped the ‘Best Practice in the Private Sector’ category in the Isle of Man’s Energy Awards 2013. The awards acknowledge the achievements of the Isle of Man businesses and public sector organizations that are reducing their energy consumption and improving efficiency.

With its low energy luminaries, MHA Lighting was chosen to replace all the existing fluorescent fittings in the St. Mary’s Court offices and lobby areas of Charlemagne Capital (IOM) Ltd, Nedbank Private Wealth Ltd and Tristao Services Ltd.

Catalina Property Services, said: “After discussions with our residents about rising electricity costs, increased pressures to reduce carbon emissions and ways to improve light levels in our building – we sought a lighting supplier who could deliver on our strict brief: To find a lighting solution that would improve light quality for our leaseholders, whilst significantly reducing St. Mary’s Court’s energy consumption and carbon footprint.”

The project saw a total of 227 TiLite (TL) luminaires installed in the offices and lobby areas of the three companies. This included 160 TL30/700, 53 TL24/700, and 14 TL20 fittings.

This has reduced combined annual lighting energy consumption at St. Mary’s Court from, 153,925kW/h with has an annual cost of £20,780 (NT$973 thousand) to just 55,053kW/h. Mutual annual energy bills have therefore been reduced to an average of just £7,432 (NT$ 348 thousand) per annum.

Through their low-energy LED Luminaries, MHA Lighting was also able to achieve a significant reduction in Co2 production for the offices, equating to product lifetime Co2 savings of 853 tons (an average of 55 tons per year).

The units have extremely low maintenance and will run for 60,000 hours of continuous use. With Charlemagne Capital’s 14, Nedbank Private Wealth’s 15 and Tristao Services’ 13 hour a day operations – the lights will not need replacing for 16, 15 and 18 years respectively.
This makes for additional savings on maintenance costs of £56,382 (NT$ 26.4 million) over the products’ lifetime – bringing total lifetime savings to £310,737(NT$ 14.6 million).

Catalina Property Services, added: “We are pleased to say that MHA Lighting has been able to offer a solution that delivered on all our collective goals.

 “By replacing the lighting in the offices of our residents with MHA Lighting’s low-energy LED fittings, not only are they seeing real cost savings on their energy bills – over £300,000 (NT$ 14 million) is expected, but the light color, output and uniformity is superb and the initial feedback is that staff are benefiting from the improved lighting levels. more follows… “

The installations have fully serviced warranties of ten years – this is three above the standard for similar LED lighting installations. The life of the driver used to power the units is 66,000 hours and after the useful life of the Philips LED, the individual residents will have a further 6,000 hours in which to determine whether to refurbish or replace the lights.