As part of California State University, Fullerton’s goal of becoming an all-LED campus, the university is installing LED lights in a six-level parking structure near campus, the roadway near the parking structure, and along the walkway from the parking structure to the campus. Occupancy sensors will be installed on most of the 151 fixtures in the parking garage because the lights have to be on 24 hours a day for commuter and residential students. When no one is in the parking garage, the lights will power down to a lower energy setting. Doug Kind, the university’s manager of commissioning and energy, compared the new LED lighting with an identical building powered with fluorescent lighting and found that the LEDs used 50% less energy than the fluorescent lights! Because the parking structure’s lighting was below California’s Title 24 Energy Code, $120,000 of energy incentives were granted to be used toward the project. In fact, the structure only consumes 20% of the amount of energy allowed in Title 24!
In the next phase of California State University at Fullerton’s project, the school will replace metal halide fixtures around campus with 1,000 LED fixtures over the next 18 months. The new LED lights will be installed on roadways, parking lots, pedestrian areas, and other streets around campus. One of the great features of these lights is that they will be controlled by a remote given to campus security, who can increase and decrease lighting in certain areas. For example, if there is an evening event, campus security can be sure the lights are at full power for guests on campus.
