Mt. Pleasant Central School District, Thornwood, N.Y.
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School district officials had tolerated significant problems with shadows and darkness during nighttime sporting events held in their schools’ gymnasiums. Opposing teams complained about the unusually dark conditions. Coaches and physical-education teachers noticed disadvantages for the home teams. Night games were full of confusion because of the players’ inability to track balls and plays.
Ed Kear, the district’s facilities director, decided to explore some alternative lighting for the gyms. Kear replaced 50 400-watt lamps with LED-8030 150-watt replacements within the high-school gym and two elementary school gyms. “After considering material and labor costs, I decided to install the retrofit lamps,” Kear says.
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The Retrofit
The energy-saving retrofit lighting upgrade within the high-school gym alone saved the school district more than $8,000 per year. Coaches, teachers and other administrators agree the consistent nighttime gymnasium lighting has been a phenomenal transformation. School staff has noticed better total illumination and overall color when comparing the lights before and after. And the school district no longer receives complaints regarding its gym lighting.
Mt. Pleasant Central School District is so pleased with the easy change that administrators plan to upgrade the middle school and parking lot with Light Efficient Design’s lamps. “The installation was straightforward,” Kear notes. “We are very happy with the installation and performance of the Light Efficient Design LED-8030 lamps.”
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