Day venue becomes Day/Night venue in record 60 days for ICC Championship
Jaipur, November 3, 2006 - Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh Stadium has joined a prestigious list of day/night venues for international cricket matches in India after successfully hosting six matches, including the second semi final between West Indies and South Africa on November 2nd, during the ICC Champions Trophy 2006. As day turned to dusk, each of the six matches basked in the newly installed bright stadium lights.
GE Consumer & Industrial, India provided lighting solutions to the stadium using energy-efficient lighting design, fixtures complete with lamps and appropriate aiming and alignment of each fixture as per the lighting design. Europic, a proprietary, sophisticated lighting application package of GE was used to design efficient and effective lighting.
The stadium is being lit with 360 fixtures of 2KW advanced Metal Halide Lamps specifically designed for sports lighting with a total power consumption of 850 KVA. Each lighting fixture was individually and manually aimed at a pre-designed target-point on the field using a gun-telescope mounted on a jig, which is clipped on to the fixture. The project was completed and ready for the ICC Champions Trophy 2006 in a record time of 60 days, almost half of what is the typical duration for such installations for lighting of cricket stadiums.
Samir Inamdar, President & CEO -- GE Consumer and Industrial, India Region said, "Lighting design for stadia -- especially cricket stadia -- is a very complex design challenge which needs to take into account a large number of parameters like the size and shape of the stadium, the height and depth of stands, other environmental constraints and still provide for the uniformity of light distribution on vertical and horizontal planes while ensuring glare-free colour rendering for on-ground and TV audiences and also for Third Umpires. We are delighted to have achieved all of this while ensuring 10% more energy efficiency for the Sawai Man Singh stadium at Jaipur."
Horizontal illuminance and vertical luminance are key factors for a good game of day/night cricket. The lighting solution designed by GE focused on appropriate illumination, both on the ground and in the air. This is especially important when the ball is hit high up in the air. Vertical illumination of about 50 meters is essential to keep the ball in view for the fielder and spectators on ground and on TV. Colour rendering of light using metal halide lamps ensured high quality illumination and uniform light distribution thus ensuring a better game of cricket.
A combination of "spot" and "medium" beam width varieties of sports lighting fixtures, designed by GE Europe, was used for illumination, thus ensuring adequate lighting on ground and vertically. The combination of "spot" and "medium" light also reduces glare, ensures uniformity and minimizes spill light. Unlike conventional designs that use external reflectors, the design of fixtures used by GE for the Sawai Man Singh Stadium has internal reflectors thereby minimizing spillage and avoiding glare. GE Consumer and Industrial's lighting solution also specified the position of the poles, their location, and the angle of the head frame. The head frame is positioned at an angle of 15 degrees to the vertical to ensure less glare.
The solution provided by GE includes 90 sports lighting fixtures of 2 KW each - mounted on each of the 4 high masts (poles). In total, 360 sports lighting fixtures of 2 KW each were provided, 10% less than conventional lighting solutions that use 400 fixtures for stadium lighting.
"Our lighting solution is 10% more energy efficient while providing better quality of lighting than conventional stadium lighting solutions," said Mr. Inamdar. "The lighting was so designed as to minimize spill light, thus reducing the light pollution and requiring less fixtures to achieve the required illuminance level."
Other Sports Lighting installations by GE Consumer and Industrial in India include the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, the D.Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai and Saifi Stadium in Itawah, UP. The international venues illuminated by GE include the football stadium in Daejeon City, Seoul which hosted the 2002 World Cup.
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