ASPIRIA CAMPUS, Overland Park, Kan.
RETROFIT TEAM
ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTOR: City Lighting Products Co.
MATERIALS
The 100-Watt high-pressure sodium fixtures that lit the garage stalls, as well as the metal halide lamps in the 130 coach light fixtures that lined the corporate campus’ parkway, were replaced with 27-Watt SYLVANIA ULTRA LED High Lumen lamps. The 32-Watt, four-lamp, surface-mount fluorescent lamps in the garage stairwells were replaced with 10-Watt SYLVANIA SubstiTUBE IPS LED T8 LED lamps. In all cases, the upgrades involved a convenient one-for-one replacement within the facilities’ existing fixtures.
THREE-THOUSAND, FIVE-HUNDRED SYLVANIA SUBSTITUBE IPS LED T8 LAMPS AND 6,800 SYLVANIA ULTRA LED HIGH LUMEN LAMPS: LEDVANCE
THE RETROFIT
Constructed as the world headquarters of a major telecommunications company in 1999, the campus contains 4 million square feet of Class A commercial office space spread across 20 buildings and 14 parking garages that can accommodate 14,500 vehicles. In July 2019, the property was purchased by Wichita, Kan.-based Occidental Management Inc. and has since been repositioned as a mixed-use complex.
Aspiria Campus Director of Engineering Gary Schlotzhauer championed the upgrade of the older fluorescent and high-pressure sodium lighting in the parking garages and parkway to high-performing, energy-efficient, long-lasting and easy-to-maintain LED technology.
“When we first took over, the lighting in our parking garages and along the campus parkway was dull, dingy and uninviting,” Schlotzhauer says of the low-bay HID fixtures that lit the garages and parkway and the T8 fluorescent lamps in the 28 garage stairwells.
Kicked off in March 2020 and completed nine months later, Schlotzhauer is delighted with the results of Aspiria’s upgrade. In addition to elevating foot-candle levels and creating brighter, cleaner, more uniform and more inviting garage spaces, he notes: “We were paying $4,800 a month for the labor to replace failed high-pressure sodium lamps throughout our 14 garages, so our upgrade to reliable, long-lasting SYLVANIA LED lamps delivered $60,000 in annual labor savings alone. In addition, the new lighting delivered nearly $210,000 in annual energy-cost savings. These combined savings enabled the project to pay itself back in less than a year.”
Schlotzhauer has additional plans for the Aspiria campus. “As we complete tenant build-outs inside of our buildings, we’re replacing everything with SYLVANIA linear LED lamps wherever we’re not installing new lighting fixtures,” he says. “We’ve installed over 10,500 SYLVANIA LED products on our campus to-date, even before this project, and are enjoying better quality light, performance, and energy and cost savings.”
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