Abbot Beyne School
Staffordshire school saves over £18,750 a year on lighting costs with LED upgrade
Carbon footprint reduced by nearly 68% with interest-free Salix funding and hand dryer replacement saves another £900 annually
Case study
SaveMoneyCutCarbon managed and won a Salix funding application, leading to our project team fitting nearly 1,500 lights and fittings, as well as replacing 7 hand driers with energy efficient models.
As a result, the savings for the school are over £19,671 annually, and reductions to their Carbon footprint of nearly 68%.
The payback for this project is 7 years.
The Client
Abbot Beyne is a large thriving secondary school in Burton upon Trent with two distinct sites.
The Staffordshire school has 800 students enrolled and was recently given a very positive review by Ofsted. The school manages 19 hectares overlooking the River Trent, with Years 7–9 predominantly based at the Evershed site and Years 11–13 based in the Linnell site.
The Brief
The school wanted a better working environment for staff and pupils by improving the lighting throughout and was also determined to reduce both energy consumption and maintenance costs.
At the same time, Abbot Beyne wanted to contribute to efforts to help the environment by reducing its carbon footprint, through reduced consumption of lighting power.
The Solution
SaveMoneyCutCarbon was asked by the school to carry out a full survey and make the business case for LED retrofit. The detailed preparatory work involved specialists to specify options for the suspended fittings.
The project was put out to tender and SaveMoneyCutCarbon won the contract on the basis of its exceptional experience in the education sector and pricing.
Working with the school management, SaveMoneyCutCarbon drew up detailed schedules for the installation team – all fully DBS checked – and then managed the installation throughout, ensuring minimum disruption.
As well as the LED lighting upgrade, the school took the opportunity to replace aged and inefficient hand dryers in both sites with eco models that reduced power consumption by up to 80.8%.
Salix application
SaveMoneyCutCarbon also successfully managed the Salix funding application process that provided an interest-free solution, with repayments covered by savings in energy costs.
The team fitted a total of 1,459 lights and fittings, including LED panels, LED linear battens, high bays, bulkheads and outdoor wall lights from trusted manufacturers such as Thorn, Ansell, Ledvance and Signify (Philips).
SaveMoneyCutCarbon works closely with top lighting companies because well manufactured LED lighting has a working life of 50,000 hours with little or no light degradation. Cheaper versions lack quality control, often meaning high failure rates and poor light quality.
The fluorescent tubes that were replaced typically have a lifespan of 8,000 hours and provide increasingly poor light quality as they age. The school was having to replace these regularly.
The long lifespan of LEDs not only reduces maintenance costs but also the amount of waste going to landfill.
Staff and pupils also benefit from quality LEDs being flicker-free, which provides much better conditions for working and learning, particularly for those prone to headaches or other symptoms which can be associated with poor lighting.
This project was completed in February 2022.
Annual energy savings of 68%
Salix Interest Free Funding with a 7 year payback