Helvar News 2/2007 English

SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
2/2007
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SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
Editorial by Asko Kallonen
NEW GRANDEUR OF
THE VERKATEHDAS
ARTS FACTORY
Text: Juhana Päivärinta
CHEDI MILAN - LIGHT
AND ASIAN HARMONY
Text: Juhana Päivärinta
ENERGY SAVING AT
ULLEVÅL SYKEHUS
Text: Tanja Sundhall /
Münz Ålenius Nordic PR
ECO-DESIGN – ENERGY
EFFICIENCY AS
THE BASIS FOR LIFE
CYCLE THINKING
Text: Juhana Päivärinta
HELVAR NEWS
BACK COVER:
CONTACT INFORMATION
EDITOR
Ritva Lakkonen
[email protected]
LAYOUT
Markkinointitoimisto
Länsiviitta
Cover picture: Verkatehdas, Finland
Photograph by: Johan Stenberg
Index page picture: Chedi Milan Hotel
Every day news and media gives us new information how the environment around us is changing due to our own actions. Polar ice
is melting and polar bears’ living conditions are endangered while
giant hurricanes threaten everyday life of millions of people around
the world.
Due to the growing energy consumption the changes in nature are
assumed to do nothing but accelerate unless we carry out noticeable and fast changes in our actions. The European Union is highly
committed to the international energy saving targets and there are
several directives to enhance the energy efficiency.
Lighting is strongly incorporated into the three latest energy efficiency
directives; The Eco-design of Energy-using Products (EuP), Energy
Services Directive (ESD), and the Energy Performance of Buildings
(EPBD). As lighting is the major end-use category in the tertiary
sector, responsible for one-fourth of total electricity consumption, all
the energy efficiency improvements in lighting have a significant effect
in total. The ESD directive sets a 9% energy saving target for all EU
countries by 2016. To reach these targets it is not enough to carry
out energy efficiency plans in new installations. The growing need is
to renovate existing installations and gain remarkable energy savings
especially through up-to-date, energy efficient lighting systems.
People often consider energy consumption limitations are unpleasant
to follow and restrict their quality of life. When using well designed and
implemented lighting systems, we do not only improve the energy
efficiency but also increase the user comfort. These automated and
user specific lighting systems are also flexible to changes when office
space or other space divisions need to be reconstructed, lowering
reconstruction costs.
Where lighting systems are
concerned, the keys for
energy savings are already
in our hands. With our own
decisions and actions we
can immediately influence the
environmental development.
Asko Kallonen
Managing Director
NEW GRANDEUR OF THE VERKATEHDAS
ARTS FACTORY
Text: Juhana Päivärinta
The broadcloth factory, which was founded in 1895 in
Hämeenlinna, experienced its golden age in the 1930s.
The factory manufactured flocked woollen cloth, i.e.
broadcloth, which was used for sewing clothes. At its
peak in the 1950s, the factory had 1,300 employees and
120 mechanical looms. The factory’s operations ceased
at the start of the 1960s when the European wool industry went into decline. The City of Hämeenlinna acquired
the factory in 1978.
milieu. The factory can cater for events with over 1,700
people at one time.
After the operations at the factory came to end, the
premises served the needs of enthusiasts and professionals in the cultural sector, sports clubs and people in
vocational education, adult education and the local radio.
As a result of a major renovation and new construction,
the Verkatehdas Arts Factory has undergone a total
transformation.
Challenging premises to light
New beginning
The factory started its new life in 2007: a new, unique
culture and congress centre has been created within the
walls of the Verkatehdas factory. The complex is made
up of a 700-seat music and congress hall which can
be modified in a variety of ways, a conference centre,
restaurant and film centre.
The requirement in designing the lighting for the
Verkatehdas factory was to integrate the control of the
general lighting with the control system for the DMXbased theatre lighting. The challenging nature of the
design work was increased by the many different areas
in the multipurpose building, the lighting of which must
be adapted for numerous different uses.
“The Verkatehdas Arts Factory is a performance venue
right down to the courtyard. The lobbies and entrance
halls are also performance venues, and the music and
congress hall is a new construction. In cultural premises,
lighting designers themselves often have to determine
the basic parameters from the users’ perspective,” says
Erkki Hakanen, project manager at Projectus Team
Oy, who was responsible for the electrical and lighting
design.
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Johan Stenberg
Studio Voitto Niemelä
The Verkatehdas Arts Factory is one of Europe’s largest
culture and congress centres created within an industrial
The Verkatehdas Arts Factory is intended to be a
culture centre for the entire nation. The comprehensive
programme offering was evident at the opening gala,
which featured internationally renowned Finnish artists:
pianist Olli Mustonen and the Helsinki Festival Orchestra,
and the rock group The Rasmus.
Lighting control as part of the electrical design
The Verkatehdas Arts Factory has a total of 30,000 square metres of space
available. The factory’s lighting control and lighting design includes the 700+
seat concert hall together with its lobbies, and the entire project comprises
around 10,500 square metres. This is one of the largest Helvar Imagine lighting control systems delivered to a site on land.
“Of the many lighting control systems available, we wanted to choose Helvar’s
system for the reason that its support and availability are close by in Finland.
Lighting systems of this size category have not been implemented before.
The system has to work with complete reliability,” emphasises Hakanen.
Lighting control from the users’
perspective
The lighting control system at the Verkatehdas Arts
Factory has been implemented using the Helvar Imagine
system intended for large premises. The Finnish distributor of Helvar lighting control products, Electrosonic
Lightinen, worked in cooperation with the Projectus
Team, supplied the equipment and consulted on the use
of the system.
The Verkatehdas Arts Factory’s technical manager,
Tommi Kantanen, considers the Helvar Imagine
system’s integrability and adaptability to be the most
important features in the general lighting control for the
culture and congress centre.
“Helvar’s Imagine lighting control system was chosen for
the Verkatehdas Arts Factory because of its considerable
adaptability. The system works well in lighting various
types of events, such as trade fairs, congresses, rock
concerts, chamber music events, product launches and
art exhibitions,” explains Hakanen.
The solutions in the Verkatehdas Arts Factory are diverse and will create
added value “in the long run”. Hakanen believes that the programming and
adoption of the lighting control has to be carried out as a separate assignment to the electrical contract, so the end users get the best benefit of the
comprehensive system.
“The design work for lighting control is still not too differentiated from the
electrical design in this project, in which every room requires an individual
design. The design for this is completely different than for an office building,
for example, where it is possible to use particular standard solutions,” says
Hakanen.
Helvar Imagine at the Verkatehdas
Arts Factory
The old structures
are reconditioned
and highlighted
with care.
“Helvar’s system is reliable, flexible in changing situations
and can be integrated with DMX-based theatre lighting
control systems. All in all, the project was interesting and
challenging. I believe that the use of the Verkatehdas
Arts Factory’s lighting control in various events will bring
a lot of joy,” says Hakanen.
“The requirement for the lighting control system was
that we could also control the general lighting from the
performance technology. The push buttons for the lighting are in the door frames, but in a performance event
the hall lights are controlled either from the DMX table or
by using the touch screen,” says Kantanen.
“Now, for example, the light fittings of the covered light
well are theatre spotlights equipped with lighting control.
The lighting control is used to create the desired lighting
and atmosphere for each situation. Integration with the
theatre lighting control was an important issue for us.
Helvar’s system can be used very effectively for a variety
of situations,” says Kantanen.
Photos: Johan Stenberg
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CHEDI MILAN - LIGHT AND ASIAN
HARMONY
Text: Juhana Päivärinta
When the goal is to offer the guest a pleasant, calm moment between the busy hours of work, the right
atmosphere is created not only with beautiful interior, but also with carefully designed and accomplished
lighting.
The Chedi Milan luxury hotel opened its doors to
customers in 2007. The hotel, constructed close to the
centre of Milan in a quiet residential neighbourhood,
is a short distance from Milan’s business and financial
centres. The strategic location of the hotel, in between
the Fiera di Rho and Fiera Milano City congress centres
at the heart of Italian culture, is ideal for business and
leisure travellers.
The Chedi Milan is one of the Chedi concept hotels
belonging to the GHM company - General Hotel Management Ltd - which operates throughout the world. It is the
first of its kind in Europe. The interior and atmosphere of
GHM’s hotels combine an Asian spiritual harmony with
western culture and high technology. The Chedi Milan
Hotel is an individual, luxury hotel designed to a high
class in a carefully considered location.
The hotel has a total of 250 rooms and suites furnished
in a uniquely elegant Asian style, of which the largest
is the 150-square-metre Penthouse. The glamorous
interior design and furnishings of the rooms combine
peaceful colours with a spiritual atmosphere of Asian
well-being and beautiful natural materials. The rooms
are equipped with modern high technology, such as
individually adjustable air conditioning, a plasma TV and
a fast broadband connection.
be adapted in a number of ways. Helvar Imagine was
chosen as the lighting control system, which controls
the lighting in the hotel’s lobby, restaurants, conference
rooms, gym and swimming pool area through a centralised system. The light fittings mainly use halogen lamps,
in addition to which fluorescent lamps and special luminaires with Helvar EL-sc ballast range are used.
Polis Engineering wanted Helvar as
its partner
Polis Engineering wanted Helvar as its cooperation
partner in the Chedi Milan project because they have
extremely good experiences of previous cooperation
with Helvar’s experts from the Mediaset Conference
Center project that was completed in Milan by one
of Italy’s largest private TV companies, the Mediaset
Group.
Helvar’s and Polis Engineering’s cooperation and mutual
confidence is successfully continuing. Polis Engineering has the next new hotel project for the GHM hotel
chain, and Helvar, with its lighting control systems, is
also involved in the project. The new project will be
completed in December 2007.
The work of top designers
GHM uses the world’s most creative professionals
as designers for its hotels. The experienced and
eminent Italian design company Polis Engineering was
responsible for the entire Chedi Milan hotel construction
project. The lighting design was an especially important
part of the overall project.
Facts:
The vast majority of loads are halogen
lamps, around 200 fittings using fluorescent lamps, specified and adopted with
200 Helvar EL-sc ballasts (special fittings).
Helvar IMAGINE system used
The well-known, extremely experienced and internationally recognized Australian lighting designer Nathan
Thompson and his design office The Flaming Beacon,
located in Melbourne, Australia, were responsible for
the lighting design of the Chedi Milan Hotel. Thompson
has been working in the field of lighting since 1975, and
has designed lighting for other hotels in the GHM chain
outside of Europe.
• 300 channels
• 2 Imagine Routers
• 5 Touch Panels
• 10 Panels.
• Centralised control
Areas controlled with Helvar systems:
Lobby, restaurants, conference rooms,
gym, swimming pool.
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Chedi Milan
Polis Engineering and Thompson worked in close cooperation on the Chedi Milan project, the aim of which was
to create a wonderful lighting effect in the hotel that can
ENERGY SAVING AT ULLEVÅL SYKEHUS
Text: Tanja Sundhall / Münz Ålenius Nordic PR
The total renovation of Ullevål University Hospital provided a real boost. Not just in terms of the workplace
environment for patients and the thousands of employees. But installing a brand new lighting system in a 120
year old hospital is a major challenge. And if this challenge can save NOK 24 million, it is well worth every single
working hour. Helvar was chosen for the project because of its flexible customized total solutions. The new
installation is expected to be ready on September 28, when the energy-efficient lighting system will brighten
Ullevål as never before.
The hospital is also Oslo’s biggest energy consumer with
a total of 113 gigawatt-hours per year, which was also
given special consideration during the total overhaul of
the hospital. Much has been said in recent years about
energy optimization and energy savings by replacing
lighting systems in Norway. When it saw the substantial
potential savings that a new installation at the hospital
would offer, ENOVA, a public enterprise owned by the
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy,
became a partner and paid for much of the renovation
project.
Ullevål University Hospital saves 82
percent of energy costs
The hospital renovation committee commissioned Erik
Kristoffersen from Vanpee Norge, Helvar’s Norwegian
distributor, to carry out the project in partnership with
E-Co Tech, Byggoperatören, and ENOVA. The goal of
the project was to cut energy costs while providing hospital employees with a more pleasant workplace. The
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renovation included a laboratory
project, which is currently controlled by Helvar’s lighting system.
“Renovating old buildings and
modernizing their energy systems
can offer enormous gains and
numerous opportunities. Our
goal was to cut the hospital’s
total energy costs by 82 percent
compared with consumption by
the old lighting system,” says
Erik Kristoffersen, Vanpee Norge.
“And we have succeeded in
doing so. This has been an exciting project to work on since we
got to test new technological
solutions and see that they also
work in reality. Helvar’s lighting
system was chosen because the
company delivers total solutions,
develops customized systems,
and because other systems are
not as flexible as Helvar’s.”
Customizing an old building to meet current needs not
only saves energy costs for the entire building, it also
leads to reduced carbon dioxide emissions in the long
term, which benefits our environment.
“Anything is possible with today’s technological solutions
and you can customize lighting to work differently for
different types of needs,” says Mr. Kristoffersen. Previ-
Ullevål University Hospital
lighting system:
Helvar has provided Ullevål University
Hospital with eight Digidim lighting routers,
130 Digidim multisensors and 90 Digidim
input modules.
Vanpee Norge will program the system,
which is expected to be completed on
September 28, 2007.
ously, all lighting was turned on at the same brightness
and at the same time. Today’s systems feature motion
and presence detectors, allowing the lighting to be
turned on and off automatically when people enter or
leave a room or department. Some sensors also detect
daylight and automatically lower lighting throughout the
facility, so that certain departments have more or less
lighting during different times of the day.
Customer surveys for two years
To ensure the success of the energy optimization project
at Ullevål University Hospital the entire project will be
monitored for two years. Several customer surveys will
be carried out, with the first planned for early October.
“I feel that having quality controls for a completed project
further raises the bar for the entire project,” says Mr.
Kristoffersen. “Now we can really find out how the facility is affected by the energy optimization project, what
advantages and challenges may have been encountered
during a two-year period. In terms of work for a hospital,
at times it can be difficult to carry out such an extensive
renovation project if patients are included in the picture.
In Ullevål’s case the department that was affected had
no patients. Of course the personnel were affected, but
the entire process has been very smooth – far beyond
expectations.”
Aerial view of the Ullevål University Hospital area
Facts: Enova
Enova, a public enterprise owned by the
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and
Energy, was officially created on June 22,
2001, to promote environmental choices
and the rational use of energy and oil, and
to proactively stimulate market players to
achieve energy policy goals.
ENOVA supports projects that costeffectively promote sound environmental
choices. The Norwegian state has
earmarked a fund of NOK 5 billion (about
EUR 650 million) to carry out these initiatives.
Ullevål University Hospital
Ullevål Hospital, just outside Oslo,
Norway, opened on September
5, 1887. The entire facility was
built then as a pavilion hospital with associated psychiatric
hospital, general hospital, and
isolation infirmary. Today, 120
years later, the reception pavilion
has become a museum, while
Ullevål has become a University
Hospital and can proudly say that
it is one of the biggest hospitals
in Norway. The hospital campus
currently consists of 300,000 m2
with a broad spectrum of buildings, ranging from the nineteenth
century to ultramodern high-tech
installations. Several renovation
projects have been carried out
over the years, along with expansions and new construction of
the hospital’s many departments.
Everything is joined today by
bridges to facilitate mobility for
patients, visitors, and the 8,100
employees.
Customized solutions improve the
entire environment
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The hope for more people to
discover energy optimization
It is often due to ignorance about the many modern
high-tech lighting systems available in the market that
many property owners do not decide to implement
similar energy-saving measures. Now Vanpee Norge
and Erik Kristoffersen hope that the market recognizes
the great potential savings associated with an energy
optimization project.
“Operating costs for lighting were cut by 82 percent and
we can offer the same opportunities for future projects.
We hope that more hospitals, schools and other facilities invest in modern lighting with customized control
systems, both in total renovation projects and new
construction. Since lighting, along with heat and ventilation represents such a large energy cost, energy optimization can give property owners a competitive edge in
future purchase and sale situations.”
ECO-DESIGN – ENERGY EFFICIENCY AS
THE BASIS FOR LIFE CYCLE THINKING
Lighting tips
from the Norwegian government’s Enova
and Frode Olav Gjerstad, program coordinator ENOVA: (source www.enova.no)
Text: Juhana Päivärinta
• Public buildings can realize great savings
potential by replacing old lighting
systems in both renovation and new
construction projects
• Total solutions using lighting components
that provide lighting the right way at the
right time can reduce energy costs.
• Investing in new technology and a
brand new lighting control system with
energy efficient lights and bulbs makes
economic sense.
• Use efficient light fixtures with good
optics and high efficiency
• Customize lighting controls with motion
and presence detectors, and daylight
sensors.
• Take advantage of daylight as much as
possible!
The European Union aims to minimise the environmentally harmful effects
caused by products from the electrical and electronics industry for the duration of the products’ entire life cycle. As part of the implementation of the
EU’s environmentally oriented Integrated Product Policy (IPP), new directives
for reducing environmental impacts are being drawn up. Helvar is actively
involved via trade organisations in the preparatory work of the sector’s environmentally positive EU directives.
Basic ecological principles as part of product
design
Product design typically involves comparing various alternatives from perspectives such as functionality, costs and quality. The aim of the EuP Directive,
Eco-design of Energy-using Products, is to integrate the ecological design of
the product as part of the product design process.
Eco-design, i.e. ecological product design, aims to take into consideration
the product’s environmental impacts over the entire life cycle in the product design phase. Taking environmental matters into consideration at this
stage is easiest and most cost effective.
The fascinating museum presents
practises of the past science
Eco-design aims to reduce the use of natural resources, the waste
created and emissions into the air, water and soil. Other aims include
reducing energy consumption, optimising the product’s working life,
improving recycling and minimising the use of harmful substances at
every stage of the product’s life cycle.
Helvar has undertaken consistent ecological product design and
significantly reduced the use of harmful substances in its products
beyond the RoHS directive requirements. The most significant environmental impacts of lighting are caused during the use of the
products. Therefore energy efficiency is emphasised in Helvar’s
products without neglecting other environmental aspects.
Ullevål University Hospital
According to a life cycle analysis, the energy consumed
during the use of Helvar’s products corresponds to at
least 98% of the environmental impacts during the
entire life cycle (Tampere University of Technology,
TUT, life cycle analysis). The production stage or
end-of-life stage are therefore insignificant.
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“The life cycle analysis reveals that the
in-use phase of electricity consumption
cause over 98% of the environmental
impacts of Helvar products during their
entire life cycle. The energy consumption
of the products during the use can be
reduced using lighting control and presence detectors,” says Leena Tähkämö, the
engineering student who carried out the life
cycle analysis at TUT.
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• During the entire life cycle the
environmental impacts of electronic
ballasts are almost 20% smaller
compared to magnetic ballasts.
• Lighting control can reduce the energy
consumption by over 50%. This figure
is greatly dependent on the type of
premises the products are installed
in, the amount of external light, the
types of lighting control levels and the
utilisation rate of the premises. The
environmental impacts of the energy
consumption are dependent on
how the electricity is produced. The
abovementioned examples are based
on the average energy production mix
in the EU area (EU25).
“Through ecological product design, the energy
consumption during the use of the products can be optimised to a minimum. In addition to this, the importance
of lighting control will be emphasised during the product’s life cycle in office and street lighting, particularly,
if significant energy savings are being sought,” explains
Markku Norhio, Helvar’s quality manager.
Helvar is involved in the ELEDFE** research project,
which is focusing on improving the exploitation of life
cycle analyses in ecological product design. The other
companies involved in this project are e.g. ABB BAU
Drives and Vaisala. The aim is to develop a system to
integrate environmentally friendly product design to be
part of the product development process and environmental management system.
** ELEDFE – The reliability of the life cycle assessment in the
electrical and electronics industry to promote environmentally
favourable product design.
Helvar distributor meeting 2007
Helvar provides excellent coverage of the global lighting
business market area through its own sales operations
and an extensive complementary worldwide distribution
network. These partners are both committed and capable of serving their local markets in the most effective
ways possible.
In order to continuously develop the partnerships and
co-operation between Helvar and its distributors, the
Helvar European Distributor Meeting took place in
Finland on September 13th and 14th.
14 partners from all over Europe were represented.
Topics covered in the two-day meeting were Helvar’s
strategy, market trends, co-operation development and
various informative product issues.
The meeting proved highly valuable for both Helvar and
the distribution partners. There were excellent possibilities to share opinions and gather feedback. Throughout
the gathering the spirit of the participants was enthusiastic, fervent and showed great mutual commitment
to the business. For the distributors it also provided a
valuable opportunity to network with each other.
Altogether the distributor meeting was a great success
and one factor accelerating Helvar towards the growth
target of the company. Life cycle process and the
factors involved
Helvar invest in Russia
Helvar has traditionally been a strong key player in the
lighting industry within the Russian market area, where
we have a leading position in the ballast business. Over
the years we have also accomplished several distinguished lighting system projects; the State Hermitage
Museum in St. Petersburg is just one example of the
solutions and level of expertise we can offer.
At the beginning of 2008 Helvar will take a significant
step closer to the growing lighting business in Russia by
establishing our own representative office in the heart
of Moscow.
The aim of the Moscow office will be to serve the
Russian luminaire manufacturers and current distribution partners even more effectively than today. The other
purpose is to create a stronger co-operation network
in the Russian Lighting System business. The recently
launched Commercial System product range with
expanded features has a key role to play when further
developing Helvar’s strong position in this important
market area.
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Director of Representative Office Ilpo Heikkilä is
confident about the lighting business in Russia
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Johan Stenberg
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