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Lighting Retrofits in Commercial Buildings Bring Bottom Line Savings

Lighting Retrofits Commercial BuildingsAs a building owner or property manager, your chief concern is tenant comfort. But of course, improving your bottom line comes in at a close second. Fortunately, there is a cost-effective way to accomplish your goals: Lighting Retrofits. According to the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon University, a few well-placed lighting retrofits can reduce lighting electricity demand by an impressive 85%.

Energy Efficient Lighting Retrofit Solutions That Save Energy and Costs

Closed Space Control

Unoccupied rooms could be costing you more than you realize. Conference rooms, for example, are typically occupied just 30-70% of the time. Closed offices come in at 35%, while kitchens, copy rooms, and bathrooms can be as low as 10%. Now just imagine how much money you could be wasting by lighting these rooms – which account for roughly 25% of the typical office building – when they are unoccupied. The solution: Vacancy sensors, which have an economic return on investment (ROI) of 52%, a two-year payback and 13% light energy savings.

Daylight Harvesting

Daylight sensors can reduce the total lighting energy in medium-size office buildings by a whopping 70%. In deeper section buildings, daylight harvesting can save 10 to 35% of lighting energy. These sensors have an economic ROI of 21%, a payback of about five years and 30% light energy savings.

Task Lighting

With less than 50% of the average office floor dedicated to individual workstations, and with predominantly computer-based tasks requiring lower ambient lighting, Lower-Task Ambient Lighting can reduce the total lighting energy of a medium-size office building by up to 40%. Task lighting has an economic ROI of 32%.

Blind Management

The right Blinds can increase energy efficiency (reduce lighting energy by 32%), improve natural light control, and reduce glare. New blinds have an economic ROI of 5% and a payback of 19 years, but better blind management has a much quicker payback.

Smart Ballasts

Digitally addressable Dimming Ballasts with automated controls can help bring lighting power density below 1 watt per square foot. Such a project can reduce lighting energy by as much as 65% and carries an economic ROI of 15% and a payback of seven years.

Vertically Integrated Fixtures

The most expensive, yet more effective lighting retrofit available involves Vertically Integrated LED Fixtures with dimming and IP controls. Vertically integrated LEDs combine the lamp, ballast, and fixture as one item. These retrofits can reduce lighting energy by an impressive 85%, and carry an economic ROI of 18%.

Trust Your Building’s Maintenance to Crockett Facilities Services, Inc.

Call Crockett Facilities Services, Inc. (CFSI) to help you manage all of your commercial building’s facility maintenance needs. Whether you need lighting retrofits, HVAC repairs, retrofits, installations, preventive maintenance, energy management, custodial services, or a simple building assessment to help you with your 2015 budget planning, we can help. Since 2000, our customers have trusted us to run their commercial buildings, high profile government buildings, and mission critical data centers, giving them peace of mind. We can manage all of your building’s operational needs to simplify your workload and improve cost-efficiencies.

To learn more about Lighting Retrofits, please contact CFSI at 202.600.2787 or sales@crockett-facilities.com. As a commercial HVAC and mechanical contractor, CFSI’s MSCA STAR and GreenSTAR certified technicians help building owners, property managers, and facility engineers to sleep better at night with 24/7 service throughout Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC.

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Sources:

6 Lighting Retrofits with Dramatic Benefits, Buildings.com

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