Linby Colliery Welfare Football Club Floodlighting Installation Case Study
Project Overview: Established in 1892, Linby Colliery Welfare Football Club is one of Nottinghamshire’s oldest grassroots football clubs. With a proud heritage and strong community ties, the club recently embarked on a major upgrade to its pitch facilities with the installation of new LED floodlights and masts, delivered in partnership with Abacus Lighting. Originally proposed as a full turnkey lighting solution, the project was revised due to client funding constraints. While Abacus Lighting retained responsibility for the lighting system design, supply, and installation, the civils element was managed directly by the client and executed by contractor QTS, with Abacus offering technical guidance throughout.
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Abacus’s Scheduling Collaboration: While a typical Abacus-led turnkey installation of this size would typically be completed over 12 working days within a 3-week window (to allow for concrete curing), this project was extended to 6 weeks. This was due to QTS working free of charge (FOC) for the club and scheduling works around their other commitments—a generous contribution that helped make the project financially viable for the club.
Abacus required just 6 days on site to: Erect the six HL250 masts, head-frames, install all LED floodlights, complete commissioning and handover.
Project Installation: QTS, under client instruction and with Abacus technical support, managed all civil works including: • Excavation and formation of six concrete mast bases • Trenching for ducting • Installation of Abacus-supplied armoured cables and mast holding down bolts • Pulling cables through ducts and positioning bolts within concrete prior to curing Abacus Lighting: • Installation of 6 x HL250 masts and head-frames • Fitting of 14 x Challenger 1 LED luminaires • One control cabinet fitted
Abacus Lighting’s Key Installation Overview: Each mast fitted with 2 x 1500W Challenger 1 LEDs for the main pitch. The two far-end masts included an additional 1000W Challenger 1 fitting each to illuminate the warm-up/training areas. A new control cabinet was also supplied and installed by Abacus, with two independent switches for the pitch lights and the training area, with all final electrical connections, testing, and commissioning completed by the Abacus lighting team.
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