An Illuminating Guide To Site Lighting

Date: 23/05/22

In a seasonal country like the UK, with such changeable weather from one day to the next, site lighting on construction sites is an essential part of site design. Good site lighting needs to help your helps your team to SEEE:

• Safety – providing enough light for all site staff to move around safely at all times of the day and night, regardless of the position of the sun or the weather conditions.
• Effectiveness – providing enough light to work effectively, to a high standard, across all parts of the site and all job roles.
• Efficiency – providing that light in a cost-efficient way that ensures safe, effective working while reducing energy bills and cutting fuel costs.
• Environment – delivering a safe site environment, while protecting the global environment from CO2 and other emissions.

Ticking all four boxes

Most site lighting designs will tick the first two boxes easily. However, with energy bills increasing rapidly, they don’t always manage the third. Running your construction site lighting off the grid has become significantly more expensive in recent months as electricity prices have soared. At the same time, the change in red diesel regulations, combined with rising diesel prices, has pushed up the cost of on-site generators. Running cost effective site lighting on today’s sites is harder than ever.

As for the fourth box, considering the environment may not be your first priority when you are trying to balance the books in the face of spiralling site costs. However, legislation means you have to take action to reduce emissions or face expensive fines.

The solar power solution

When it comes to lighting design, only solar site lighting can tick all four boxes and help you SEEE better. Solar site lighting is every bit as safe and effective as traditional lighting, while also delivering significant cost savings. It also helps to protect the environment and helps you meet tough emissions targets at the same time.

At Think Hire, we provide a comprehensive range of solar site lighting, designed to operate safely and effectively in all kinds of environments. Let’s take a look at some of our most popular solar site lighting solutions.

• Solar LED access point lighting – designed to illuminate walkways, stairways and paths, this system includes PIR motion detectors to ensure that access points are always safely lit when they are needed, without wasting energy when they are not.
• Solar compound lights – commonly used for areas such as car parks, roads and other access/egress areas, solar compound lighting can cover an area of 400m2 from a single solar powered unit.
• Solar tower lights – for larger areas, the solar tower light can illuminate 2400m2 from its 8m vertical mast, delivering 8hrs of light 7day a week in spring, summer and autumn and 5days a week in winter.
• LED floodlights and base lights – though not directly solar powered, these units have been designed to work very efficiently, using a fraction of the power of conventional lighting. They can be run off a solar power generator for maximum efficiency.

SEEE more clearly with Think Hire

The Think Hire team have been designing and supplying solar site lighting right across the UK for years, working on sites of all sizes with all kinds of different demands. Our unique expertise can help you to SEEE better on site, reducing both your operating costs and your environmental impact, without compromising safety or effectiveness.

If you’ve been hit by the energy crisis and the change in red diesel regulations, then we can help you get your project back on track and back on budget. To find out more, get in touch with our team today and see how easily and effectively solar site lighting could work for you.

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