Dextra reuses luminaires at education office
Lighting manufacturer Dextra has reused luminaires at the office of an education provider in the East Midlands while delivering energy savings of 60 per cent.
The company replaced the T5 fluorescent lamps and associated components with LED gear trays and wireless controls in the existing housing.
The 500 luminaires now benefit from daylight dimming and absence and presence detection.
The company said that upgrading the lights on site and adding controls ‘made the project feasible within the budget constraints, allowed for a quicker and easier installation and prevented hours of labour, mess, rewiring and distruption on site of the client’.
Dextra described the electrical contractor who carried the site work as ‘awesome’.
‘It has also helped the end client with their sustainability journey. By the time the project is complete, we will save a huge amount of new steel being required for new luminaires. Not forgetting an energy saving of 60 per cent and therefore, lower energy costs moving forward.’
Dextra operates a Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling service through its delivery fleet which are back filled with waste luminaires, reducing unnecessary journeys.
Over 95 per cent of equipment and products collected by Dextra Group are either recycled or reused.
The company has installed solar arrays generate power to support operational functions and manufacturing equipment and it exports approximately one third of the generated solar energy back to the grid.
In 2024, it generated a total of 1.4 million kWh.
Dextra Group has also initiated a number of carbon offsetting measures on an estate in Exmoor. They included changes to existing habitat management and a comprehensive carbon sequestration scheme.
Across its 900 acres the estate working with Defra, Natural England and other stakeholders, is planting additional trees which absorb carbon dioxide and create a ‘carbon bank’ at an equivalent rate of 1 tonne of CO₂ per tree over its lifetime.
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