Lighting the LED Revolution

“… we’re excited about expanding our LED installations for even greater energy and maintenance-cost savings,” said Chris Turletes, UAA associate vice chancellor for facilities and campus services. “We’re achieving better visibility and significant energy savings and anticipate significantly reduced maintenance costs for the life of the LED fixtures, which can be 25 years. We are standardizing on LED lighting in the applications where we can achieve these dramatic benefits.”

Project Highlights

• UAA began converting lighting applications to LEDs five years ago, starting with signage, specialty lighting, aisle lighting in lecture halls and theater stairway lighting.
• The university recently completed a parking lot pilot with seven fixtures from BetaLED, and is evaluating 14 BetaLED™ fixtures for parking garages and covered walkways.
• UAA is reducing its energy consumption for the parking lot and garage by approximately 60 percent, as compared with the high-intensity discharge (HID) lights that were replaced.
• The university is also evaluating LED lighting for recessed lighting in stairwells and mechanical rooms, walkway bollards and parking lot lights for the new Health Science Building.