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When Surrey Sports Park, one of Europe’s premier sites for sport, health, wellbeing and leisure, needed an upgrade to its existing lighting, Thorn Lightingcame up with a perfect solution.<\/p>\nWhen Surrey Sports Park, one of Europe’s premier sites for sport, health, wellbeing and leisure, needed an upgrade to its existing lighting, Thorn Lightingcame up with a perfect solution.<\/p>\n
Utilising a variety of Thorn\u2019s luminaires, a scheme was designed that is compatible with today\u2019s technology and that can be easily upgraded.<\/p>\n
Surrey Sports Park is the permanent training base of Harlequins Rugby Club, Sure League netball team Surrey Storm, British basketball league club Surrey Heat, and UK top-\ufb01ve swimming club Guildford City. The facilities include a 50 metre 8 lane swimming pool, a 120 station gym\/strength and conditioning area, 6 squash courts, two large exercise studios\/conference rooms, spinning studio, a 1,000 seat arena, three arti\ufb01cial pitches including 3G turf and changing\/multi-purpose rooms. There is also on-site accommodation with en-suite rooms, extensive catering facilities and event delivery services.<\/p>\n
The overriding factor in the brief for the lighting solution was to upgrade to energy e\ufb03cient, low maintenance LED lighting whilst improving the overall illumination of the facility using funding recouped from the energy savings obtained. The use of Thorn\u2019s Glacier II, modern and e\ufb03cient decorative LED pendant luminaires in the reception has created a bright and vibrant space. Glacier II is a high performance luminaire (91-124lm\/W) with a long, maintenance-free lifetime of 50,000 hours that o\ufb00ers an e\ufb03cient alternative to HID pendants.<\/p>\n
Thorn\u2019s Area\ufb02ood Pro with a special coating for harsh atmospheres was chosen for the illumination of the swimming pool. A low-energy, low-cost LED alternative to HID \ufb02oodlights, the IP66 rated Area\ufb02ood Pro is highly e\ufb03cient (>110 lm\/W) and has a substantial 100,000-hour lifetime for both the LED (L90B10) and drivers (Ta25\u00b0C). Area\ufb02ood Pro o\ufb00ers high class-leading optical performance and control with minimal spill light in a compact, lightweight design. Duoproof, a range of sealed, IP65 rated, recessed \ufb02uorescent luminaires and Chalice LED downlights have been installed in the swimming changing areas to creating the ideal ambience.<\/p>\n
Duoproof and Chalice have also illuminate the general changing areas along with Omega LED, a versatile \ufb01tting with a slim 12mm pro\ufb01le and a UVstabilised opal acrylic di\ufb00user so it will retain its clean look. The IP44 rated Omega LED provides excellent glare control (UGR<19\/22) and is easily retro\ufb01tted, whilst maintenance is signi\ufb01cantly reduced by the 50,000 hours\u2019 life.<\/p>\n
The studios have been lit using IQ Wave, Thorn\u2019s next generation smart recessed LED luminaire which focuses on intelligent controls, optics, design and installation. Distinctly di\ufb00erent to \ufb02at panels, IQ Wave bene\ufb01ts from a modern wave design, providing great lighting quality, high user comfort and a communicative environment for the activities taking place in the studios.<\/p>\n