Project News – Low energy lighting installation at A1 Football Factory

Co-owned and operated by Pontefract’s born and bred Ipswich Town and the Republic of Ireland’s very own Paul Green, the Football Factory brings the next generation of premium 3G football pitches to the area. With a 52,000 sq ft facility, currently hosting four state-of- the-art pitches, the Football Factory will be unrivalled in the quality and service it has to offer.

The football pitches were lit with 400w Sodium low bay light fittings, which had been poorly maintained; the lighting was orange coloured and in strips along the pitches. There was also no lighting control, so if only one pitch was in use, all the lights still needed to be switched on.

AES were asked to install low energy lighting; the existing lighting was replaced with new T5 light fittings c/w presence detectors, which meant that the lighting to the pitches automatically turns off if the pitches are not in use.

As well as improving the lighting levels, the new lighting also uses more than 50% less energy than the old sodium lights, and maintenance costs have also been reduced.