Spain. To reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs, Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, changed the lighting in three of its terminals for LED lights.
The company in charge of the project was Toshiba, which reported that the first areas to be intervened with the replacement of the luminaires were the VIP rooms, as well as in the services and offices.
The VIP rooms now have 300 8.5W LED luminaires, instead of the 50W halogen ones it had previously and the offices were installed 9W lamps. In addition, as part of the savings program, offices will have to turn off the lights at night when there are no staff working.
44 skylights were also installed in two of the terminals, which will allow the lighting of these places to be 100% natural during the day when there are optimal weather conditions.
Barajas' new lighting, which also includes photovoltaic LED street lamps in the airport gardens, is due to conclude next May.
According to Toshiba's estimated data, with the new LED lighting Barajas airport will be able to save about 62% of lighting consumption and CO2 emissions in the same percentage. In total, the air terminal will save 820,000 kilowatts per year and emit 532 tons less CO2.
