Retail Plaza and Car Park Lighting
September 2018: Mahon Point Shopping Centre in Cork have refitted their external car park lighting from Metal Halide to LED. The existing lighting was replaced on a 1 for 1 basis. The original poles were retained and reused for the new lights. The car parks at Mahon Point have over 2000 car park spaces. These car parks are now illuminated using 34 of VeeLites SupraLED Luminaires – typically 1 light for every 60 car park spaces.
The previous lighting consisted of 4 x 400w Streetlights per pole, which used 1.8 Kws of electricity. The new lighting provides good quality white light and only uses 420w per pole, a saving of 76% in energy costs.
This aerial photo is courtesy of O’Callaghan Properties, who developed the Mahon Point Shopping Centre in 2005.
Typically, these high performance SupraLEDs are installed on lighting poles between 6m and 12m height. They are ideal for new projects because of their wide spread of light and consequent savings in poles, concrete bases, underground wiring, installation etc plus the end result of more free space afterwards to use for car park spaces. On refit projects such as Mahon Point, the SupraLED has the advantage that there will not be any dark spaces between the poles, as it is unlikely that any existing product is providing a wider spread of light. In this particular project, the lighting levels afterwards are more uniform (evenly spread) and easier for users, as eyes no longer have to adjust to high light levels under the poles and low lights between the poles. This is often an issue on car park lighting and one that the SupraLED is designed to eliminate.
