Case study · Residential estate · Electrical
Newland Gardens communal emergency lighting
Replacement of the communal lighting across the Newland Gardens estate in Hertford: more than 200 light fittings, all of them emergency lighting, with the annual three hour test now carried out by Eden.
Sector
Residential estate
Trade
Electrical
Location
Hertford
Scale
200+ light fittings
What we did
01
Communal emergency lighting
Every communal light fitting across the estate replaced, all of them emergency lights.
02
200+ fittings
More than 200 light fittings replaced across the site.
03
Annual testing
The annual three hour emergency lighting test, now carried out by Eden.
The project in detail
The brief
Multiple failures had been found in the communal emergency lighting across the Newland Gardens estate, so the fittings needed replacing.
Emergency lighting is not a fit and forget system. The battery inside each fitting is what keeps an escape route lit when the mains supply fails, and batteries weaken with age. Once failures start appearing across a site, replacement is usually more sensible than repairing fittings one at a time.
How we delivered it
Working closely with the managing agent, we selected a manufacturer that offers a five year warranty and parts that are simple to replace, which makes future maintenance easier.
That choice matters more than it sounds. When a fitting eventually fails, a spare part can be swapped rather than the whole unit replaced, which keeps the cost of looking after the estate down for the years after the installation.
The result
The building is fully compliant following the replacement, and we now carry out the annual three hour emergency lighting test. That test runs the fittings on battery alone for their full rated duration, which is the only way to show the escape routes would stay lit long enough for everyone to leave the building safely.
Alongside the annual test, BS 5266 expects a short functional test of every fitting each month, and both need recording in the emergency lighting logbook. For a managing agent that logbook is the evidence: it is what a fire risk assessor, an insurer or a resident's solicitor asks to see.
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