Why Invest in a Lighting Study? (Video Interview)
Published November 2016
Sweet Harvest facility manager, Brian Pleschcourt talks about his experience with an aging and inefficient lighting system, and tells us how the Lighting Redesign Study process worked for his facility. Read the interview now.
Why did Sweet Harvest decide to replace the lighting in your facility? What were the issues you faced and what were some of your company’s goals for the lighting project?
“We knew it was time to replace the lighting in the facility because we had a lot of older existing fixtures with lamp failures and also with ballast issues. We had a general yellowish tint to the building. We wanted to improve the lighting and the quality of lighting for our employees’ productivity and safety. Also, to support our green initiatives toward saving energy.”
What solutions were evident in the study that you may not have been able to realize without that first planning step of an Investment Grade Audit?
“We saw with the motion sensors and controls on the lighting that we could save more energy. Sweet Harvest foods has a commitment to reducing our carbon footprint and we take that very seriously. We were able to take out the length of the project – as far as payback – a little longer knowing we were making good decisions, environmentally sound decisions. [These were] decisions that would save us money in the long run.”
In your opinion, what were the benefits of the lighting study process?
“One of the benefits to the lighting study was that we were able to look at new technologies in the existing building. That [part of the study] allowed us to reduce the amount of fixtures in the layout, lighting exactly to what our needs were going to be. There’s no guess work. Everything is calculated and engineered.”
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