Costain and Highways England | M1 Smart Motorway
Background
The M1 is a strategic route that carries high volumes of heavy goods and other vehicles, with drivers experiencing congestion and unreliable journey times at busy periods.
In 2014 the M1 junction 23a-24 was confirmed to extend the previously announced M1 smart motorway junctions 24-25 improvement to junction 23a (East Midlands Airport).
In total Highways England and Costain upgraded 7.5miles (12km), which started main construction in early 2017 and completed in late 2018.
Challenge
After Costain had completed an environmental exercise in 2016 the key issues to be considered were the air quality, noise reduction and protection for endangered species. They needed lights that were innovative, cost effective would, also reduce the emissions and noise pollution across the M1 Smart motorway project.
The Solution
We were invited to demonstrate the performance and reliability of our ProLight solar lighting tower as an alternative to the conventional diesel generator lights being proposed on the Hemington M1 site compound.
The ProLights are designed to operate year-round with zero site intervention. The outstanding performance of the ProLight during the trial period led to Costain approving the purchase of 3 ProLights for the M1 compound.
The units were delivered and have provided significant benefits, not least of which there has been huge diesel savings. Combined with the labour savings achieved and not having to continuously fill the units with diesel.
No human intervention is required to operate and control the ProLights, this can be done remotely via the Smart Remote Portal.
What our clients
have to say
The great thing about Prolectric’s ProLights is the solar lights have performed really well since we took delivery earlier this year. The LED lighting quality and the fact they produce zero noise and zero emissions makes them ideal for our Hemington compound. Being able to remotely connect to the Tower Lights ensures that they can be measured and monitored all year round making it easy for Costain to report on the huge fuel and carbon savings. In addition to measuring and monitoring, the control menus can be remotely accessed at any time so we can easily and quickly change the on/off settings as well as all the other menu options.
Sean AllenEngineer
We have approximately 50 Prolectric Solar Tower Lighting Units in use. We have a high level of confidence in both Prolectric as a business and the products they produce as well as the after sales service and support they provide. As an Approved Vendor, the growing number of units across the business has had the added benefit of removing a large amount of Diesel powered equivalents from the site. I would recommend Prolectric as I have found them to be both amenable and professional to deal with and look forward to doing further business with them in the future.
Richard ThompsonReliability Engineer – Infrastructure Utilities
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