Cree Lobby: Results

Guests walking into Cree’s visitor lobby immediately notice brightly colored tubes of LED lights creating constantly changing color patterns. Next they notice the large TV display – lit by LEDs, of course – behind the receptionist’s desk. They may not notice the new LED recessed can lights throughout the lobby because they produce high-quality, uniform lighting similar to the incandescent lamps they replaced.

We replaced the lobby ceiling lights in two areas:

Reception desk – Eight ceiling lights replaced

Waiting area – Twenty-six ceiling lights replaced

The new LED lights generally achieved average energy savings from 21 to 71 percent, compared to the non-LED fixtures they replaced.

Potential cost savings are increased by the lower maintenance and disposal costs made possible by the long service life of LEDs (targeted at 50,000 hours) and by the fact that they do not contain mercury or other hazardous materials requiring specialized disposal.

Here are the details:

* Renaissance Lighting EVO can lights can operate at multiple light levels. Their energy-demands range from 41 to 15 W. The savings calculations are based on both these high and low levels.

Cree also added LED fixtures from Avtec, Inc. to illuminate a display wall, but we have no precise energy-consumption figures from the replaced fixtures to allow us to calculate energy savings.

Fixture Manufacturers

Avtec, Inc.
6 Industrial Drive
Cahokia, IL 62206
www.avteclighting.com

Cree LED Lighting Solutions, Inc.
617 Davis Drive, Suite 100
Morrisville, NC 27560
www.creells.com

Renaissance Lighting
480 Springpark Place, Suite 900
Herndon, VA 20170
www.rllight.com