The hotel Adlon Kempinski of Berlin bets by the solutions LED of GE Lighting

With the aim to reduce his broadcasts of CO₂, the famous Hotel Adlon Kempinski (Berlin) has selected the lamps LED of GE Lighting to substitute the lamps halógenas of his 382 rooms and suites. This new lighting LED reduces the consumption of power in 80% regarding the previous installation and offers a significant saving in terms of maintenance thanks to his long useful life of 25.000 hours.

The Hotel Adlon fixed the aim to turn into one of the first hotels in implementing a politics of sustainable development and of environingingmental consciousness. A skilled team in ecology and environingingment studies opportunities for the hotel with the aim to reduce his broadcasts of CO₂ and the environingingmental impact. In this line, Thorsten Kluge, technical director of the hotel, looked for a solution LED effective that allowed to substitute the lamps halógenas of 382 rooms and suites.

The Hotel Adlon Kempinski worked to find the most reliable solution and effective, that allow so much maximizar the saving of power like reducing to the minimum the costs of maintenance. “They were very clear to the hour to fix the expectations of the new system of lighting that looked for”, says Oliver Voges, Key Account Manager in Obeta electro, the distributor commissioned of the project. "In addition to being synonymous of quality and reliability, the new solution of lighting had to fit in the aesthetics of the hotel without engaging the appearance and the characteristics of original design. We have tested a big variety of products during several months before opting by the solution that better adapts to the needs of the hotel.”

Thorsten Kluge Selected the solution of lighting of GE that better adapts to the requirements of quality so much of the hotel as of his guests. “We have had to fulfil with two important criteria: in the first place, the new lamps have to provide a quality of upper light that reinforce the atmosphere of the Adlon. On the other hand, we looked for a product that was compatible with the electrical installation and the existent infrastructure to facilitate the replacement during the periods of high occupation, keeping the costs. All this have found it in the lamp LED MR16 7W of GE Lighting that it has convinced us totally by his characteristics”.

The lamp LED Power Smart MR16 of 7W of GE is regulable and ideal for the replacement of lamps halógenas of 35W and 50W. Available in several temperatures of colour, have an useful life of 25.000 hours and his durability is five higher times that the solutions of lighting used previously.

From principles of year have installed in the Hotel Adlon Kempinski a total of 7.000 lamps LED of GE Lighting, that will reduce the consumption of power in 140.000 kWh to the year, what means a saving of until 80% compared with the lamps halógenas previous and a reduction in the broadcasts of CO₂ of the hotel. Besides, the LED MR16 7W of GE have an useful life of 25.000 hours of operation and a durability five greater times that the solution of lighting used previously. All this means that the costs of maintenance of the Hotel Adlon have reduced and that with these savings, the new installations will fund in a year.