Horsell Electrics wins award from BAE Systems Maritime

Horsell Electrics are proud to announce it has received the Bronze Award in the BAE Chairman’s Awards 2012 in the category of ‘Supporting Our Total Performance Culture’ for its involvement in the project ‘White Light Goes Green’. BAE Systems’ prestigious ‘Chairman’s Awards’ were established in 1996 and annually recognise employees, partners, and customers for outstanding effort and achievement. The program honours innovative ideas, actions, and behaviour that further the company’s values while delivering benchmark performance. The category ‘Supporting Our Total Performance Culture’ rewards the efforts of employees & partners who best represent the company’s commitment to maintaining a culture that promotes positive values in every aspect of its business. Nominations reflect engagement with and promotion of BAE Systems’ culture of Total Performance. Horsell Electrics assisted the BAE project team in designing a lighter, more robust, portable and energy efficient replacement luminaire for their temporary 110v fluorescent site lighting. The lighting is used during the fabrication of ships for task lighting by welders, painters and electricians etc. The solution consisted of an IP65 fully polycarbonate non-corrosive luminaire, with the latest energy saving multi-voltage T8 LED Tubes which also reduce Mercury heavy metal usage, a LED emergency lighting option and protected high strength Neodymium magnets to attach to the ship superstructure for ease of installation and movability while not damaging painted surfaces. This design offered the benefits of a 50% weight saving, a luminaire more robust than the ABS bodied version they were currently using, a reduction in potential accidents as the LED tubes are durable unlike the glass fluorescent tubes which would easily shatter and savings of 70% on energy consumption, 70% on carbon and 70% on CO² making it a truly GREEN solution.