HIAL invests over £9 million in energy efficient runway lighting at Kirkwall and Inverness airports
Highlands and Islands Airports Restricted (HIAL) is to speculate £9 million in new vitality environment friendly Aeronautical Floor Lighting (AGL) methods at Kirkwall and Inverness airports as a part of an ongoing programme to take care of airport infrastructure that may even deliver environmental advantages.
Following open tender processes, contractors GMR Henderson have been awarded the contract to hold out the work at Kirkwall, with G&A Barnie chosen for the mission at Inverness.
The AGL system offers visible steering to pilots throughout touchdown, taxiing and take-off in darkness and when visibility is impaired resulting from adversarial climate circumstances. The brand new lighting will guarantee the airports can proceed to function safely and be compliant with Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) necessities. They may even cut back vitality consumption by as much as 80%.
The work has been deliberate to make sure there is no such thing as a influence on flights with little disturbance at both airport. Set to start in April, the work will proceed by way of to mid-September at Inverness, with Kirkwall resulting from full in October.
Graeme Bell, Inverness Airport Common Supervisor, stated: “The brand new lighting represents a major modernisation of our airfield lighting system and can contribute to decreased upkeep schedules whereas on the identical time lowering the airport’s environmental footprint.
“The vitality saving qualities of the brand new system will contribute considerably to lowering our vitality consumption at Inverness airport”. Kirkwall Airport Supervisor, Kimberley Fisher, stated: “Having this new LED AGL system in place not solely retains our runways secure and compliant with regulation, but additionally helps our work to be extra vitality environment friendly.
“The mission has been designed to create a seamless transition from the outdated to the brand new extra sustainable system with out impacting our companies.” Of the general determine, £5 million is being invested in Kirkwall and £4 million in Inverness.