Barajas airport switches to LED lighting with Toshiba

To reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs, AENA has implemented LED lighting in the Terminals 1, 2 y 3 from Barajas airport. VIP rooms, Toilets and other rooms have been equipped with Toshiba Lighting LED technology, which will reduce a 62% electricity consumption and C02 emissions.

AENA has begun the implementation of LED lighting technology in the Terminals 1, 2 y 3 from Madrid-Barajas airport, in order to save on energy consumption and reduce the electricity bill and maintenance costs. The project, directed by Daniel Rodríguez del Río, engineer of the AENA Maintenance Division, has started at the Terminal 1.

The new points of light, installed by Eiffage Energía, will reduce a 62% electricity consumption and in a similar percentage C02 emissions. Specifically, in the VIP rooms of T1 and T3 they will have LED lamps Toshiba 8.5W, saving per year 107.748 kW/h and trimming 11.852 euros per year on the electricity bill. For your part, in the toilets, The lighting system has been designed by Ilumisa and includes Toshiba LED modules, achieving additional savings of 106.434 kW/h per year, 11.708 euros per year.

In the AENA offices and in internal rooms for airport personnel, the existing lighting will be disconnected at night and LED lighting will be installed. 9 Toshiba W for night lighting, achieving energy savings of 183.960 kW/h/year and economic savings of 22.235 year.

Less polluting lighting

They have also been installed 44 tubular skylights in the Terminals 2 y 3, in the commercial area, that will allow the lighting of these places to be 100% natural during the day when there are optimal weather conditions. This is achieved thanks to dome lenses located on the airport roof that capture sunlight and redirect it towards reflective tubes.. From here, as if it were a kaleidoscope, the light is sent to the desired place.

The installed natural light diffusers have built-in, besides, an LED ring that only lights up when, due to external conditions, the supply of sunlight is insufficient. This ring has a color temperature very similar to that of natural light and very low electrical consumption. The Madrid-Barajas natural lighting system blocks harmful UVA and UVB rays and eliminates thermal and acoustic transmission that is usually common in other natural lighting installations..

The new points of light, of higher quality, power and color, They have been installed both in passenger transit areas and in the AENA Aeropuertos offices and in other airport facilities.. With this Madrid-Barajas project it will consume 41.242 kilowatts less per year and will emit almost 27 tons less CO2, what a light bulb burning for more than 870 years.

The project will continue with the installation of signs and photovoltaic LED streetlights in the airport gardens.