CORB21 - " ON THE WAY TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY" - THE TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECT.Corb21 practically consisted in setting the high school on the path of energy efficiency by rethinking the lighting of the school's work rooms.
Over the weeks, many partners, impressed by our students and their willingness to act, have joined our project, including the
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris Malaquais, or major distributors of electrical equipment such as
SONEPAR or
SYLVANIA, who sponsored our project as part of the
Mosaïque de Talents (Mosaic of Talents) competition organized by
Plaine Commune and the Ile-de-France region. We have also received the support of professionals from the local economic fabric such as
DIGILAMP, who were pleased to assist us and give advice.
What began as a mere co-facilitation tutorial turned into a transversal and multidisciplinary project that largely broke through the school walls. We went to Lyon to visit the international Led lighting trade show "
Lighting days" and were invited by the
Sonepar Francobelge group to their trade show,
SIDEC, at the Parc des Expositions in Versailles. On this occasion, Sonepar offered us a subscription to
APPLUX, their new application dedicated to Application Lighting, which proved very useful for setting up the future lighting of classrooms.
After five months of hard work, in May 2019, we conducted a proper audit of the electricity consumption of the school's "lighting" department and were able to recommend several technical solutions in order to engage the school in a true intelligent lighting approach, taking into account the technical, regulatory, human and time constraints.
We finally opted to change the school's lighting stock. We were about to switch from the very expensive and energy-consuming fluorescent tube to a Led solution.
This involved about 3000 lamps and 88 work rooms.
Our theoretical studies and tests in real measurements led us to believe that
we could make a substantial saving of 19k€ per year.
We presented our work to
Mr. Rihet,
Eco-Responsible High Schools Coordinator - Operations Department - General and Environmental Studies Department of the Ile-de-France region.
He defended our project so that
real size tests could be carried out at the high school on control rooms. The work has now been completed and we are starting the measurement and feedback phase to the region.
Should the Corb21 forecasts come true, the region will launch a call for tenders to change the whole of the high school's lamp park to Led... stay tuned ! For your information,
Corb21 and our two key partners Sylvania and Sonepar received 3 eco-responsibility awards at the final jury of Mosaïque de Talents in June 2019.
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