SSLI Provides LED Lighting Solution at Protea Hotels Head Office
LED Lighting Distribution, solutions and services provider, Solid State Lighting International (SSLI), has supplied to the Protea Hospitality Group’s upgraded Head office Server Room their LED recessed lighting panels, thus providing an Energy efficient lighting solution with a reduction in heat load which is critical within the server room. This SSLI LED lighting product has helped in providing a comprehensive and scalable solution geared to address the Hospitality services Energy conservation programme.
Ross Blakeway, SSLI Africa agent, took responsibility for the implementation from initial briefing, where the company took the Protea Hotels IT decision makers through demonstrations of the products, through to the installation, of the requested LED lighting.
Protea Hotel Hospitality Group “visionaries” who drove the adoption of the LED technology were Ricardo Pollard Group IT Manager and Trevor Heuvel Protea Head Office Facilities Manager.
“Protea Hotels needed an energy saving, cost effective integrated lighting solution delivering enhanced performance, reduced heat load and lower maintenance over the current solution and was looking for a company with a good track record in this field,” says Blakeway. “The payback within 24 months and the total Energy savings over the life of one do not take into account the proposed 35% per annum Eskom tariff increases, the reduced heat load and low maintenance, which were all major requirements, especially due to the critical nature of the server rooms function at Protea’s head office, as was a requirement of high quality and efficacy.”
Protea Hotels opted for the implementation of SP120-30 54W LED recessed light panels networked with the DMX protocol allowing for a “Step up and step down” dimming, as well as rapid on/off and motion controlled sensor lighting within the room. For its installation, the company decided on a suspended light fixture approach as a result of the ceilings and IT Server equipment installation and configuration.
Ricardo Pollard, Group IT Manager at Protea Hotels said “The objective of this project was to maximize the benefits of LED lighting infrastructure for improved heat load reduction, energy savings, maintenance free up time and better performance as well as to be leaders in a proven energy efficient technology adoption. The LED lighting implementation will result in savings of R 7202.74 per LED light panel installed and we are already seeing significant benefits in line with the initial goals”.
“Protea Hotels and SSLI have formed a solid partnership. Not only did SSLI put forward the most cost effective solution, but the company’s strong LED experiences was also key in delivering this solution,” Ricardo Pollard concludes.