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BUPA pick up a Lux Award with the help of Dextra luminaires

Bupa take Lux’s ‘Client of the Year’ award at the Lux Awards in London.

The award was given as judges praised “an organisation whose lighting strategy goes beyond energy efficiency and the standards and embraces its potential to improve the wellbeing of its staff and patients”.

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Duncan Paxman (Dexretail), Martin Kilburn (Bupa) & Simon Allard (Dextra Lighting) celebrate the award.

Bupa has rolled out an LED lighting refurbishment programme to assist compliance with its Environmental 2020 policy to reduce energy consumption and carbon impact globally, while also improving the living and working environment.

BUPA UK has in excess of 300 care homes, including 63 multi-sites with over 90 beds, 34 two-storey sites with 50-80 beds and 33 sites built before 1900 (nine of which are listed properties). In addition there are 56 health centres and various hospitals, offices, factories and distribution centres. All have been surveyed with lighting upgrades proposed and actioned.

BUPA UK has created a £30m Energy Saver Fund (£50m globally) to spend on energy-saving schemes throughout its UK premises. The 2014/15 UK lighting budget is £6 million.

The overall results of all of its energy-saving initiatives will achieve a 20% BUPA UK energy reduction from 2009 figures by the end of 2015. LED lighting represents a significant part of this as it often consumes half the power of conventional products. BUPA UK consumes 16 million kW of electricity per annum. The BUPA UK roll out is unlike many other lighting refurbishments in that the operation runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. With 18,000 residents, their well being must be at the heart of product selection, planning and installation alongside the needs of the 21,000 staff.

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If you consider 75% of care home residents have a form of dementia, care must be taken to select products that will improve navigation, colour recognition and general well-being. To meet BUPA UK performance demands, the latest LED technology had to be used to gain the efficiency required to achieve a five-year payback. The bulk of the products selected are significantly more efficient than mainstream products in the LED market. Performance and reliability were the priority so even after payback was achieved enhanced benefits continue. This was important to BUPA UK as many of their properties are very long term investments.

Products offered on this roll out have also been optimised to be ECA compliant wherever possible to assist BUPA UK make use of the allowance as effectively as possible. During 2014, nearly 11,000 fittings qualified for the ECA.

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