Energy | Hyde Park Towers

Category: Energy

Topic: pumps, motors, lighting, fans, energy consumption, car parks

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Hyde Park Towers
  • 32 storeys
  • 15 years old
  • 174 apartments
  • completed 1995
  • approximately 550 residents
  • basement  parking levels
  • 2 lifts
  • plant rooms
  • heated pool, spa, sauna and steam room
  • gymnasium
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Hyde Park Towers undertook an exercise to reduce energy consumption.

They looked at every source of common property power usage and embarked on a programme of:

  • upgrading every downlight in the building (approx 700) to long life energy saving globes, saving $4,500 in the first year
  • installing timers on each level to reduce the times the lights were on. Many of them had been on unnecessarily 24 hours a day.
  • reducing the number of fluorescent tubes in light fittings in the car park by 50% while still maintaining lighting standards
  • examining the  efficiency of all pumps, fans and boilers and in a lot of cases installed devices to reduce the speed of the equipment thus reducing consumption
  • investigating the length of time fans and motors were running ,and in most cases reduced the time.
  • In addition to the savings achieved by replacing the downlights, a reduction of approximately 20% in total consumption resulted.