Bay Centre, Pyrmont

In 2013, Prolume undertook a retrofit of Bay Center’s lighting system to significantly improve the facility’s energy performance. The project achieved a 56 per cent reduction on the building’s lighting load using state-of-the-art technologies.

The Building

Built in 2002, Bay Centre is a six-storey commercial office building in Pyrmont, NSW. It is located adjacent to Darling Harbour.

Prior to retrofit, Bay Centre was fitted with inefficient fluorescent, PLC and PLS tubes and halogen and metal arc lamps.

Project Scope

Prolume replaced 546 lights throughout the facility, adopting a number of techniques to achieve outstanding energy savings.

Where possible, like for like replacements were made, reducing operation costs and duration. For example, the building’s 1200mm twin 36 watt (105 watts circuit power) fluorescent batten lights were replaced with Australian-designed 1200mm 17 watt (16.5 watts circuit power) LED batten lights.

Consideration was given to the site’s harbourside location, requiring lighting with a high degree of corrosion resistance. The pre-works detailed facility audit determined the housing units installed in the original fit out were of a sufficiently high quality that only the running gear needed to be replaced with retrofit LED technology.

The advantages of this method include:

1. Maintained corrosion resistance;
2. Decreased environmental waste due to recycled light housing units;
3. Reduced financial cost demonstrating Adaptive Energy Solutions’ commitment to designing projects that are in the client’s best interests; and
4. Retained architectural integrity of the building due to minimised construction works.

Results