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Cascades Swimming Pool

Connor Felstead • 16 September 2024

Gravesend upgrades the lighting in Cascades

Background

With energy costs ever increasing and public places recovering from the COVID shutdowns, lots of publicly accessible places, such as leisure centres and similar, are taking the correct steps to upgrade their lighting for both costing reasons, aesthetics, and compliance reasons.

Challenge

Lighting upgrades in swimming pools have several restrictions associated with them. All pre-existing lighting points have little or no wiggle room in positioning, so like-for-like swap outs with increased lumen outputs aren't always viable. As the levels of light at a swimming pool can be critical to life, as well as comfort, smooth lighting levels have to be achieved without being overbearing or blinding.

Solution

Mymesh allows a tailored approach to each individual light. High-lumen output high bays were fitted throughout the pool, in the same position as each of the replaced devices, and calibrated with Mymesh. Each device was fine-tuned via DALI dimming, so none of the devices were blinding to those who would be swimming while still providing ample light. All the while being energy efficient in comparison to the previous lighting. In addition, the emergency lights in the pool are also now installed with Mymesh, allowing them to be monitored without an onsite engineer being required.

Benefits

As each device could be tailored to the output of light, the same fitting could be used over the whole pool to ensure uniformity from an aesthetic point of view. The swapping of LED would allow vast energy savings while keeping the uniformity and reducing the maintenance costs.

The monitoring of the emergency lights would allow us to ensure compliance, as well as diagnose all faults without the need for an engineer. This, in combination with other factors, ensures maintenance costs are kept to a minimum.