Milwaukee Area Technical College recently joined the LED Lighting Revolution by ditching the high-pressure sodium lights that previously lit up campus parking garage. The school upgraded a six-story, 900-vehicle parking garage, replacing high-pressure sodium lights with LED lighting products from BetaLED™.
 
More than 500 BetaLED fixtures now illuminate the garage located at North 8th and West State Streets on campus. Energy use for the garage’s lighting is reduced by 55 percent and the college expects to recoup $25,000 annually in maintenance costs savings over the 12-year life of the fixtures.
 
“MATC is committed to implementing new technologies that help us reduce energy use today as well as providing a clear path to help us stave off the effects of the electricity rate hikes we all anticipate,” said Vicki J. Martin, Ph.D., MATC interim president. “With help from Johnson Controls, this project serves as a demonstration of MATC’s commitment to ongoing sustainability initiatives and an example to our students and community of the significant steps we are taking to reduce energy consumption and our carbon footprint.”