Case Study
RAF Oldham
Dialight’s DuroSite ® LED Lighting Fixtures RAF Odiham is a front line support helicopter base just south of London and known in recent times as the home of the Chinook force in the UK. The base has many facilities for service personnel and dependents alike and a distinguished history going back to 1925. The Challenge Having started life as a multi-use barn, RAF Odiham’s 35-year old Building 140 H3 needed a radical lighting upgrade to turn it into a suitable facility for stripping down and rebuilding helicopters. The former barn was fitted 20 years ago with forty 400W SON high bays which were producing so little light that task lighting was necessary. Many of them failed every year and annual maintenance was running in excess of £1500. Targets for the lighting upgrade included increasing t