Light up my Whopper
07 September 2010
Burger King's first energy efficient restaurant shines with LED technology from Everlight.
Burger King has equipped its world first energy efficient restaurant, in Waghäusel, Germany, with LED lighting technology from Everlight Electronics.
The eco-friendly design allows for series production and global implementation, uses state-of the-art technologies, and renewable energy to power one-third of the restaurant's energy consumption. A key role in this context falls to long-lasting interior and exterior LED bulbs saving more than 55% of energy consumption annually compared to traditional lighting methods.
The parking area is illuminated by six 60W SL-Dolphin street lights in neutral white with Phoenix lighting pattern featuring a luminous flux of ca. 6,000 lm and a colour temperature of 5000 K.
The asymmetric wide view angle ensures high uniformity at pole heights of 6m-8m and is therefore suited for parking and roadway applications. Existing Everlight SL-Dolphin lights are now being shipped with a patented electronic ballast developed and produced in Germany that excels with various dimming options, a life span up to eight times that of other LED street light solutions or conventional street lights, a high temperature protection mechanism, and an efficiency of 93%.
The restaurant's guest area is equipped with red interior lights in Italian design using Everlight's A-Lamp (a typical bulb type) as light source. This implementation, achieved by German company E2, features a high uniformity of illumination due to the A-Lamp's glare-free light distribution.
The eight LEDs cannot be seen from outside, resulting in a very pleasant lighting effect, resembling frosted light bulbs. The A-Lamp's power consumption of 7.5W is more than 50% less than that of an energy-saving lamp with a comparable luminance of 18 W. Furthermore, in contrast to high frequency radiating energy-saving lamps, LED lights neither cause electro-smog nor do they contain mercury.
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