Eurotec Looop

In Moers, near Düsseldorf, Germany, parts of a listed former mining building have been gradually converted to Thorlux luminaires and lighting management over the last three years.

The Eurotec Looop building is the centrepiece of the Eurotec industrial park, with a total of 6,500 square meters of office and coworking spaces. The Art Nouveau building was transformed from a miners’ washroom and changing room into a modern office building 35 years ago.

The ageing lighting system, consisting of fluorescent tubes and halogen lamps from the 1990s, required updating. The new lighting system had to provide maximum efficiency and sustainability, and, if necessary, be easily expandable to other parts of the building. It was important not to alter the character of the publicly accessible areas or the large conference hall. Finally, the new lighting system had to be easy for the building manager to use, providing monitoring, reporting, and maintenance information for individual luminaires.

Thorlux Germany conducted a detailed on-site survey, and a new, SmartScan-controlled lighting system was agreed upon. The lighting in the large hall and two conference rooms was significantly upgraded, and surface-mounted fluorescents in the corridors were replaced with efficient recessed luminaires. All escape routes in the publicly accessible areas were equipped with Thorlux Lexi-65 emergency luminaires. Furthermore, for the office of a single tenant in the building, Thorlux found a customised solution with surface-mounted louvre luminaires and external sensors that form their own network and are not part of the general lighting system.

The switch from old, uncontrolled fluorescent tubes and halogen lights to future-proof LED lighting with wireless SmartScan lighting management has quickly demonstrated high savings in electricity consumption, costs, and CO₂ emissions.