Venues & Sustainability VMA Congress 2014

Benefits:

• Good for cool mood lighting
• Power usage is dramatically reduced as alternative would be 750W standard stage lamps
• Maintenance requirements are reduced.
• Extended lamp life: 500hrs (standard) vs. thousands of hours (LED)

Challenge:

• LED products do not emit light as 'warm' as traditional lights but with careful plotting & the right balance their Lighting Designer* overcame this issue

First impressions of performance outcomes include:

• Over 50% of the LED Screens assessed out perform projection systems.

• Greater variation between individual LED Screen models with performance ranging from 3.5 l/W up to 27 l/W.

Global Creature's production of King Kong is using a 12mm pixel LED screen that is 27metres wide and 8metres high.

This results in nearly 1,500,000 LED pixels emitting incredible light but requiring minimal power input to bring alive.

Are you eager to take the first steps in improving your energy impacts?

Before delving into the detail about what changes you can make to the way you manage your venue, we want to help you understand what your energy impacts are.

Not only will it help you benchmark your energy efficiency against other venues, it will also help us to begin building a valuable industry data set.

The more people that input their data, the more accurate the benchmarks will be in the long run!

Venues and Sustainability

VMA Congress 2014

Today

• Project Overview
• Energy Efficiency Opportunities: Performance Space
• Energy Efficiency Opportunities across the Venue
• HVAC
• Public Area Lighting
• Monitoring and Managing Energy Consumption
• The Greenhouse Gas Calculator for Venues

Project Overview

Project partners and industry sectors

Project will run from July 2013 through to June 2015 and will deliver:

This activity received funding from the Department of Industry as part of the Energy Efficiency Information Grants Program.

Venues

EC3 Global

Production Companies and Tours

Dynamic Eco-Solutions

Outdoor Events and Music Festivals

GreenShoot Pacific

• Interactive web portal to host Resources
• 3 x Online diagnostic tools to assess performance
• Fact sheets, Checklists, Operational guides, Best practice case studies,
• Call to Action campaigns
• Face to face and online workshops

Project Scope

Why should you do it?

• Australia wide
• Live performance sector

The Project will help the Live Performance Industry ...

• to manage risk of increasing energy costs
• by providing high quality, credible information and strategies to reduce impacts

Energy Efficiency....

• saves costs on energy consumption
• extends the life span of fittings, equipment and appliances
• reduces your environmental impact and conserves resources
• enhances your reputation and image (informal &formal)
• can open up sponsorship opportunities

This will be achieved by...

• gathering market intelligence on impacts
• researching industry relevant innovations
• delivering benchmarking reports
• Industry engagement with balanced operational and behavioural change programs

Energy Efficiency Opportunities:

Performance Space

Stage Lighting

Fact Sheet: Energy Efficient Stage Lighting

• introductory resource for venues and production companies

• outlines the basics of energy efficient stage lighting

• supports steps by technical professionals to integrate energy efficiency into venues and stages

Design Guide: Energy Efficient Stage Lighting

• for venues and production companies

• provides a more in depth overview of energy efficient stage lighting design opportunities
• lower wattage instruments
• dimmer to lower power supply/ low voltage lamps
• LED stage lighting
• lighting instrument comparisons

Global Creature's production of King Kong is using Eighty-six ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ profiles

Acknowledgments: Peter Mumford, Lighting Designer for King Kong

Image: King Kong, Global Creatures, Photographer: Jeff Busby

Perth Concert Hall changed their 2000w Fresnel lamps (Tungsten Halogen) to 120w LED (RGBAW)

Advantages of the LED RGBAW fittings

• 120w vs 2000w
• no lighting gels needed saving cost and time
• significantly less maintenance
• colour saturation and variation
• extended lamp life

Checklist Stage Production Lighting Design for Energy Efficiency

• supports integration of energy efficient design aspects into the lighting design of stage productions

• provides Lighting Designers with an easy to use list of considerations to achieve balance between energy consumption and visual artistic outcomes

http://www.broadwaygreen.com/green-lighting-guide/

LED Screens

The Rise of LED Screens on Performance Stages Fact Sheet covers:

• Comparison LED screens vs Standard Flats and Projection in terms of
• Pro's and Con's
• Lumens/watt

Energy consumption comparison

Projection equipment versus LED Screens

Case Study

Rechargeable Batteries for Microphones

Malthouse Theatre used to throw disposable batteries out after every show. By using rechargeable batteries they are saving money and reducing waste:

• 50-60kg of batteries to be recycled each year vs. below 20kg for the last two years
• $ 500-600 per season for disposables vs. approx. $500 as initial outlay for rechargeables lasting for at least 18 months

Still offer non-recyclable batteries as an option for outside hirers as some producers/production managers don’t trust the rechargeables, but they are trying to lead by example and encourage people to give it a try!

Rechargeable Batteries for Microphones

Benefits:

• Cost and waste reduction: On average, 1 rechargeable battery replaces 93 disposable batteries (if you use them until they run out)*.

• Throughout the product's life cycle rechargeable batteries have up to 32 times less impact on the environment than disposable batteries per 1kWh of energy produced (UNIROSS, 2007)*.

Challenges:

Perceived reliability and risk: The voltage of an Alkaline battery gradually reduces over time whereas with NiMH rechargeables the voltage stays at a steady voltage and then rapidly drops under the usable limit

• with Alkaline batteries the voltage can be measured before the performance to see whether it will last for a show

• with NiMH rechargeables, the voltage may be adequate but there is no indication how long it will last

*Source: Julie’s Bicycle 2011: Practical Guides Better Batteries

Image: King Kong, Global Creatures, Photographer: Jeff Busby

Energy Efficiency Opportunities:

...across the Venue

Public Area Lighting

HVAC

Design Guide: Retrofitting Options For HVAC Systems

LED Foyer Lighting

131 lights were replaced by LED lights in the Mackay Entertainment & Convention Centre (MECC) Foyer changing from 120W bulbs to 12W. Before the retrofit the foyer required a total of 14,320 Watts which has now been reduced to 1,637 Watts

Cost reduction of 89%

• Old bill $7,700 *
• New bill $880

Further Benefits

• LEDs are less service intensive
• LEDs produce less heat
• 50,000 tonnes less carbon emissions

*for 131 lights

The Guide addresses...

• what to consider before retrofitting?

• typical equipment upgrades

• energy saving devices that can be retrofitted to existing HVAC systems

Fact Sheet: Improving Lighting Efficiency in Public

Areas of Live Performance Venues

Least effort/ investment

Level 1: Reduce usage

Level 2: Change lamps

Level 3: Use lighting controls/ automation systems

Level 4: (Re)Design lighting to suit the task

Level 5: (Re)Design building to utilise natural light and design elements for lighting

Most effort/ investment

Image: MECC Foyer

Managing &Monitoring Energy Consumption

Sub-metering and Energy Efficiency

Sub-metering can help you in identifying...

Image: Brisbane Powerhouse

• areas where energy performance is poor
• opportunities to save energy
• energy consumption of individual performances

Energy Efficiency Implementation Checklist for Venues

• The purpose of this checklist is to prompt venue managers to consider implementing energy efficiency measures across their venue

• further resources help to understand and implement measures given in this checklist

Design Guide: Managing Peak Demand in a Live Performance Venue

Lighting Innovations at the Savoy Theatre, London

Energy Consumption in Theatres

• the first entirely electrically-lit public building in the world

• the first venue in the world to house a wirelessly dimmed retrofit LED dim-to-zero lamp

• Savoy's wireless control system (ArcMesh) makes a 90% energy saving

• Network charges explained
• Access (connection fee to network)
• Consumption (quantity and time)
• Peak demand and Capacity Charges (Max. amount of electricity used during the billing period)

• Understanding Peak Demand
• When did the peak take place?
• Why did the peak occur at that time?
• What contributes to peak demand?

• Peak Demand Reduction
• Rescheduling loads
• Load shedding
• Power factor correction

London’s theatre industry’s carbon footprint: 50,000 tonnes a year

• a remote switch for the houselights was installed at the Stage Door to ensure that the system is switched off completely every night – saving energy still further

• The Savoy Theatre demonstrates that properly designed, good quality LED equipment continues to have a place in the public realm, without compromising output or, indeed, the audience experience

STAPLES Center Arena, Los Angeles

Green Theatre - Greater London Authority, 2008

• AEG owned arena hosting more than 250 events & 4 million guests each year
• 1st U.S. arena to achieve ISO 14001 certification for an environmental management system (EMS)
• a variety of conservation measures through its EMS reduced electricity consumption by 12%
• replaced almost 3,000 halogen fixtures throughout the facility with LEDs, saving nearly $80,000 per year—2% of total energy costs
• it uses variable-speed drives on all air handlers and one chiller

Managing Energy Consumption

• Estimations suggest that....
• up to 90% of heating, ventilation and air conditioning building control systems are improperly configured
• costing industry over £500 million in additional energy costs per year in the UK

• A building management system (BMS) can reduce energy costs by up to 10%!

Carbon Trust, 2007

BMS and HVAC

Image: Frankston Arts Centre

The Frankston Arts Centre has recently upgraded their Building Management System (BMS)

Before:

• No adequate control of HVAC for individual venue areas
• Limited to a simple on/ off functionality

After:

• Flexibly schedule HVAC system from a web-based interface for different venue areas suited to event bookings schedule
• Configure holidays and temporary exceptions for HVAC operations with a start and end date.
• Increased control helped HVAC usage to be reduced by an average of around three hours a day.

In Progress:

• Integration of their event management system with their BMS, which will enable the BMS to automatically program the HVAC according to the event schedule without the need for manual control

Information Kit: Building Management Systems (BMS) for Live Performance Venues

• Why a BMS is important for Energy Efficiency

• How a BMS works

• What building services can be managed with a BMS
• BMS and HVAC Systems
• BMS and Lighting Control Systems

• Key Benefits of a BMS
• Control
• Comfort
• Maintenance
• Monitoring

• Key Issues with existing BMS
• Lack of Staff Familiarity
• Lack of Monitoring and Data Logging
• Lack of Maintenance and Optimisation
• Technical Issues

• How to get the most out of your BMS

CALLING ALL VENUES

Use the LPA GHG Estimator Tool for Venues:

Compare your venue’s overall energy consumption with that of other venues.

• If you have sub-metering installed in your venue, you can benchmark the energy consumption (kWh) of your performance space(s) with other venue’s performance spaces across Australia similar to yours (visitor numbers, climate zone, size (m2)).

• The venue’s GHG Estimator will provide you with key performance indicators such as

• CO2/m2
• $/m2
• kWh/m2

http://calculator.liveperformance.com.au/

In the future, Management Guides around the following themes will be developed:

• Energy Efficiency Policy
• Sub-metering systems
• Integration of Energy Efficiency into technical inductions
• Building a business case for your board or sponsors

Suzanne Daley

Project Manager Director Policy & Programs, Live Performance Australia

greener@liveperformance.com.au

Mark Olsen

Project Consultant, EC3 Global

mark.olsen@ec3global.com

Lisa Erhart

Project Consultant, Dynamic Eco-Solutions

lisa@dynamicecosolutions.com.au

Stay Connected….

greener@liveperformance.com.au

@LivePerfAust

http://www.liveperformance.com.au/greener_live_performances/overview