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Go Outdoors is one of the UK's largest outdoor stores, stocking a wide variety of waterproof jackets, winter clothing, camping equipment, tents and more.
APW Lighting Consultancy Ltd was invited by Wireframe Studio Ltd, as a lighting consultant for the projects, to design the main shop lighting, WC's, changing rooms and staff areas.
Most stores so far have numerous skylights, so being Go Outdoors' lighting consultant, these skylights have been taken into consideration very seriously and with the aid of additional photocell operations incorporated within the luminaires, the additional daylight diming reduces the lighting levels from around 1000 lux to the specified 500 lux. This additonal photocell feature helps reduce energy consumption throughout the stores especially in the summer months, where the luminaires maybe off but still keeping the 500 lux as specified.
The luminaire that stood out above the rest for these projects was the Dexeco Verteco 4x80w T5. This versatile luminaire has a great LOR of 84% that helps keep the luminaires down to a minimum, but still having the ability to produce 500 lux as specified when placed between 6m and 9m with a uniformity of 0.6 throughout the stores.
It has been calculated that there would be a payback of around 5 years when using the above mentioned luminaire with photocells.
Ten projects have been undertaken so far, which include Bedford, Colindale, Worthing, Blackburn, Swindon and Clydebank, with a total of around 30 stores to be opened in the next three years.
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