Lighting in Design May-June 2015

Milan efficient, safe and eco-sustainable Milan, the second largest city in Italy, has reinvented itself to appear in a more efficient, eco-sustainable and safer light. It is the first large city in Europe to take the decision to upgrade, on a large scale, its road lighting to LED. AEC Illuminazione, which won the tender from the regional energy supplier (A2A S.p.A.), has installed 100 000 ITALO lanterns. Significant savings in energy and maintenance costs, state-of-the-art luminaire design and a dis- tinctly improved quality of light for the streets and lanes of the urban metropolis, won AEC lluminazi- one the contract. The ‘Milan LED’ project has prof- fered a 51,8% reduction in energy costs and a 31% general cost cutting. Milan’s city hall stands to save 10 million euros on energy in the first year alone. Milan has implemented a true city restyling so everything is in line with the most modern Smart City. When a city chooses LED luminaires,

it makes an ecological choice. LEDs have allowed Milan to obtain many advantages in terms of eco- sustainability: the city will release 23 650 less tons of CO 2 and use some 60 000 less lamps each year – this means that nine tons of RAEE refuse will be saved a year. In addition, all the mercury and other polluting materials used in the previous lamps have been removed. ITALO luminaires emit comfort and homog- enous light for ideal visual conditions. The use of new LED technology has led to an increase in reliability, safety and efficiency and the luminaires have completely changed the urban landscape of Milan in full compliance with reference standards on light pollution. The LEDs concentrate the light emission towards streets and pavements without any upward emission. www. aecilluminazione.com

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