HEADLINES
2,200 LIGHTS REPLACED WITH ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY LEDs
ASSISTED WITH APPLICATION TO PUBLIC SECTOR DECARBONISATION SCHEME
52,600 kg+ OF CARBON SAVED A YEAR
COVID-19 REQUIRED US TO CARRY OUT A THOROUGH DEEP CLEAN EVERY DAY
LIVE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT TO WORK AROUND SO ROOMS COULD BE USED SAFELY
| Project Title | Tadcaster Grammar School LED lighting |
| Client | STAR Multi-Academy Trust |
| Contractor | G&H Projects |
| Duration | 12 weeks |
| Value | c.£200,000 |
“This was a complex scheme that required a huge amount of attention to detail. G&H Projects delivered this to a very high standard from helping us at pre-grant stage and Covid-19 protocols to health and safety and an excellent installation.”
ROB HOLAH, ESTATES DIRECTOR, STAR MAT
OVERVIEW
Tadcaster Grammar School is part of the Sherburn, Tadcaster and Rural Multi-Acad- emy Trust (STAR MAT).
As part of its Estates Management’s departments drive to improve facilities as ecologically as possible, we were asked to project manage and deliver a large-scale replacement lighting scheme.
Spanning 38,000sqm, we helped the school identify the carbon savings that could be made by replacing its existing lighting system with LEDs.
We carried out a full audit of the existing system and provided calculations of the savings that could be made.
CHALLENGE
Given this large undertaking in a live environment, it required excellent project management throughout.
During school hours we could only work in non-occupied areas of which there were very few so the majority of our work was delivered out of the school day in evenings and weekends.
Working to a detailed plan and with ongoing liaison with the school’s Estates Management department, step-by-step we worked through the school to an agreed schedule replacing not only lights but old cabling too as it was discovered.
SOLUTION
Installing LEDs required us to remove ceilings tile covers and then reconstruct them every night and carry out a full Covid-19 standard clean so the classroom was safe for the following morning’s lessons.
This labour intensive approach was repeated throughout the 12-week programme and on most occasions required us to complete rooms or sections before finishing for the day.
RESULTS
Spanning 38,000sqm, we helped the school identify the carbon savings that could be made by replacing its existing lighting system with LEDs. The project was a huge success from a delivery and results perspective with the school now saving 52,696kg of carbon every year.
