The area of ​​Infrastructure of the City of Cartagena, directed by Jose Lopez, will carry out unproceso updating the set of elements of public lighting.
This, through two actions: supply LED type lights low consumption yacopio columns to renew those that are in worse condition.
This decision is mainly motivated by the conclusions resulting from the audit of street lighting by the Consistory that reflected the most pressing needs in this area.
The two contracts driven from the area Lopez will come to respond to an inherited problem due to an outstanding energy deficiency and an obsolete installation.
It is recalled that since Infrastructures, from recently, is already carrying out a process derenovación column.
Specifically, this initiative, which is in an advanced stage and has a total cost of about 30,000 euros, is allowing change 44 columns, other polyester, in the Eixample area and Garden City.
This action has endowed priority, for safety reasons, to those columns that are in worse condition.
IMPROVEMENT IN PUBLIC LIGHTING
The first of the contracts that will be bidding soon, will aim the collection of 206 columns polyester, removing, using this material, any risk of corrosion due to various factors such as the urine of dogs, as well as ensuring the security.
Similarly, new columns (from a height of seven meters), allow compatibility with trees, while initiating a necessary update process in the municipal lighting.
Similarly, the installation of protective forks on lampposts located in parking areas in battery enable better conservation of the column.
The action will lazona main scope of implementation of the Eixample, a place that has been revealed, with special emphasis this problem.
At first, it was limited to the most affected subsequently act on other sites in the municipal areas.
This contract will have a budget of approximately 102,000 euros tender (VAT included).
LED FIXTURE TYPE
The second performance, complementary to the first, is supplying LED luminaire type, plus installation, in the municipal street lighting.
Specifically, 525 type LED lights will be installed, under a contract that will have a tender budget of about 248,000 euros (VAT included).
The contract includes the supply of various models of light, which have their main destination in the Eixample sector.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
The actions of the local government led by Lopez are aimed at strengthening a policy based on an optimization of management and energy efficiency.
In this sense, the mayor, Jose Lopez, stressed that replacing bulbs with LED type lights will also have an impact on these goals, saving the municipales¿ coffers, continuing the intensive work of renovation of public lighting, among those found replenishing numerous points of light were turned off.
The mayor, finally, has welcomed the collection of columns for replacement by those who are in worse condition: is a necessary measure to ensure the safety and continue the necessary process of improvement in público¿ lighting.
CONTRACT MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC LIGHTING
The initiatives described, promoted by the Infrastructure area will have a boost with the upcoming contract award maintenance of public lighting for 2016 and 2017. In that contract, and among the improvements that can offer the seventeen companies competing for the same , are replacing conventional luminaires LED luminaires technology and replacement of metal brackets by brackets fiber reinforced glass fixtures, among other possibilities.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena