Environmental Design + Construction - January 2009 - (Page Cover3)

LUTRON ELECTRONICS SPOTLIGHT Lutron Tames Biggest Energy-User in Commercial Buildings with Expanded Quantum Total Light Management. PHOTO BY NIC LEHOUX Quantum total light management is making front-page news inside The New York Times Company where it is achieving a 70 percent savings in lighting electricity use in the company’s new headquarters — as compared to the ambitious energy-efficiency benchmark the 52-story building originally was designed to meet. “We designed our building to use 1.28 Watts per square foot of lighting power. With Quantum, it’s using only 0.38 — that’s 70 percent less,” says Glenn Hughes, director of construction for The New York Times Company during the design, installation and commissioning of The New York Times Building. “The energy usage savings is stunning.” It is estimated that the 70 percent savings in lighting energy usage — in an office space of 600,000 square feet — will generate an annual savings of about $315,000 for the Times Company. The environment benefits too: about 1,250 metric tons of CO2 emissions will be prevented yearly. “Office buildings and other commercial structures are consuming huge amounts of electric- ity in cities and towns all over — and lighting is almost always the number one reason,” says Eric Lind, director, Commercial Marketing for Lutron. “With energy costs continually going up, Quantum cuts the electric bill substantially and, in the process, helps the environment.” The need to curb commercial building electricity usage for lighting is acute. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, lighting alone accounts for about 40 percent of the typical office building’s electricity consumption, far more than any other source, including HVAC or office equipment. Quantum total light management utilizes a wide number of strategies to bring energy savings to a building: daylight harvesting; light level tuning; occupancy or vacancy sensing; load shedding; architectural load dimming; fluorescent dimming; high-end trim; switching; and scheduling. And Quantum increases comfort and productivity with strategies such as personal light control, scene and zone control, and controllable window shades. Quantum offers a new shade control strategy — Hyperion solar-adaptive shading — which automatically adjusts window shades based on the sun’s position to effectively manage the daylight in a building, reduce glare, and save energy. This solution provides a simple set-up, based on a building’s geographic location and user-specified sunlight penetration. Manual override of shade position is always available when desired. Quantum also offers unprecedented flexibility for building occupants. Quantum enables workspaces to adapt to changing requirements. Lighting and shading zones can be reconfigured without rewiring, making a space responsive to high churn rates. In addition, the Quantum system is scalable from small, standalone spaces, to whole floors, to the whole building or campus. Quantum is appropriate for a wide variety of commercial structures, whether new construction or retrofit projects. Interested in ending the wasteful electricity usage in your building? Visit www.lutron.com/quantum to learn more. www.EDCmag.com 67 http://www.lutron.com/quantum http://www.EDCmag.com

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