Located just outside Derby city centre, the new South Derbyshire Acute Hospitals PFI project includes complete refurbishment of an existing hospital, as well as construction of a new acute hospital. Construction work is being carried out by Skanska, with the company also taking responsibility for hard facilities management for 35 years. Whitecroft Lighting in their capacity as lighting designer/suppliers to the project specified Venture lamps for the exterior illumination.Venture's 400W, high output PulseStart lamps were chosen for the feature lighting around the entrances, using over 200 Whitecroft fittings. A combination of Whitecroft's striking Sirocco Spoke post-top fittings and wall mounted Euroflood mini floodlights utilising 150W Venture lamps have been used to visually enhance the entrance areas and pick out the architectural features. Marine IP67 ground recessed uplighters using 150W lamps have also been installed to provide narrow beam floodlighting on the exterior entrances.
In addition to this, Whitecroft has designed lighting for the roads and car parking to incorporate Venture lamps. Post-top Mistral luminaires are being used in these areas to provide effective, energy saving illumination with no light pollution.
Paul Cassidy, technical director of Whitecroft Lighting, commented "Every aspect of the lighting takes account of the ongoing facilities management requirements as well as addressing the visual and performance needs of the hospital".
Uni-FormTM Pulse Start lamps, designed by world leaders in metal halide technology Venture Lighting, produce a white light with excellent colour uniformity and improved optical accuracy. Venture now offers more than 350 metal halide lamps ranging from 50W to 2,000W, plus 11 different wattages of energy efficient Uni-FormTM pulse start systems for industrial and commercial applications.
