Harrow Council

A smart‑controlled lighting upgrade across 200+ social housing blocks improved safety and compliance, using daylight sensors and dimming to cut energy use by over 80% while reducing maintenance and delivering brighter, more reliable lighting for residents.

Powerlite Fitzgerald surveyed 200+ housing blocks

Implemented comprehensive design covering emergency, standard, and dimmed levels.

Smart controls optimise
energy savings

80% Reduction
In energy saved

Background

Across more than 200 social housing blocks, ageing communal lighting was failing residents and stretching budgets. Lamp and emergency failures were leaving stairwells and walkways dark between maintenance visits — a safety risk and a constant source of complaints.

Statutory emergency lighting testing compounded the cost: monthly function tests and annual duration tests across every block meant hundreds of engineer visits a year, just to stay compliant.

Work undertaken

We designed and manufactured luminaires for over 200 social housing blocks at our Yorkshire HQ, improving safety and creating a more welcoming environment for residents.

Our solution paid for itself with the use of self-test emergency lighting. Allowing the council to check for faults via a dashboard without the need to send personnel to the site to manually test each emergency fitting.

Every installation was completed in occupied blocks, with no additional wiring required to upgrade the outdated fluorescent fittings to smart LEDs

Insights

Powerlite Fitzgerald’s upgrade improved safety, compliance, and lighting quality while reducing energy consumption by over 80%.

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