Trinity Presbyterian Church Completes LED Light Retrofit

Atlanta, Georgia –Redbird LED , an Atlanta, GA. firm that specializes in the design, manufacturing and distribution of energy efficient LED Tube Lighting for commercial buildings recently completed a LED Tube Lighting Retrofit for Trinity Presbyterian Church. The Church founded in 1949, has grown from less than 150 members to a congregation of more than 2000 members. In addition to providing the Christian Gospel to its growing base of constituents, Trinity Presbyterian Church is committed to being a steward of the economy and respectful of earth’s resources.


The Trinity Presbyterian Facility Department and Sustainability Committee has actively implemented a number of environmentally responsible programs including recycling programs, reduced use of cleaning chemicals and updating outdated HVAC equipment. The Church contacted Redbird LED to conduct an energy audit and thorough analysis of their lighting systems. Redbird Led recommended that Trinity Presbyterian Church retrofit their existing fluorescent lighting ( 150 watt) with more energy efficient LED Tube Lighting( 12 watt).

Trinity Presbyterian Church will receive many benefits from using LED Tube lights in their facilities. LED Tube Lights are more environmentally responsible because they contain no mercury, use less energy than conventional lighting and have a life span of more than 50,000 hours. The results are lower energy bills, reduced maintenance costs and no recycling concerns. Facility Manager Greg Hoopes was thrilled with ease of installation of the LED Lights, the energy savings and also the reduced cost and time needed to maintain lights.

IFMA Report Covers Energy Savings From Lighting Retrofits

Recently the International Facility Managers Association, IFMA published a very informative publication, Sustainability " How To Guide" Series- Lighting Solutions. The publication was written by Bill Conley, Managing Director of Pacific Building Care. The author discusses Retrofits in the chapter on Making the Business Case.The United States DOE has confirmed that lighting does provide the quickest ROI of any energy investment. In some cases this is less than a year.

Estimated Savings From A Lighting Retrofit www.commercialledretrofits.com

" A commercial building of one million square feet that uses T12 Fluorescent fixtures would require about 18.000 lamps or 4,500 fixtures. based on a cost of $ .10/kwh, the cost of the electricity would be approximately $348,300 annually. Retrofitting to T8 lamps with electronic ballasts could reduce these costs by 50 percent."

The author provides a chart with a comparison of retrofitting  with T8 lamps with different wattage and types of ballast. The largest savings is with 25W T8 with high efficiency electronic ballasts. The energy consumption per fixture is only 68W. This compares to consumption of 172w per fixture with the T12 fluorescent lamps.

To download your complimentary copy of the publication please visit www.ifma.org

More savings could be realized through a LED Light Retrofit. Redbird LED , an Atlanta based designer and manufacturer of LED Tube lights has recently released a new line of LED Tube lights that provide a high quality lighting source with a lower price point than other LED lights available. For more information on Redbird LED and the benefits of retrofitting your lighting please visit their website- www.commercialledretrofits.com.

Canadian Retailers Go Green By Retrofitting Lighting

Canadian retailers have gone to great lengths recently to tout their environmental and social policies, motivated by the economic benefits as much as by altruism.

Walmart Canada, Loblaw and Canadian Tire are among the big retailers trumpeting aggressive policies to save energy and minimize packaging. Some are even publicizing efforts to protect depleted fish species and ensure decent working conditions at their suppliers.

The companies may have the best intentions but there's also no denying that green practices are simply good business. Saving energy cuts costs, while touting policies to protect the environment strikes a positive chord with consumers and investors alike.

"The primary reason is that they have come to recognize that there are significant business benefits in doing so. It is not altruistic," said Mel Wilson, who heads the sustainable business team at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Calgary.

"It's not like people just woke up one day and their personalities had changed. They have recognized that this is good for business."

Walmart Canada, a subsidiary of U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, said last month that it stands to save about $140 million over the next five years through strategies aimed at energy reduction, waste diversion and its supply network.

Canadian Tire, the country's large automotive and household goods retailer, said last week that it would be among the first companies in the country to highlight its progress in its quarterly and annual reports.

"What we felt is that, if we ingrained it into the processes and how we do business, then sustainability in itself becomes sustainable," said Stephen Wetmore, the company's chief executive. "That's the way we've approached it, otherwise we didn't think we would have a long-term, viable approach to the environment."

Loblaw, the country's biggest grocery store chain, is working with environmental groups to ensure it only buys seafood that is sustainable and not at risk of depletion.

For most retailers, the simple cost of doing business is what has driven them to adopt the initiatives. With energy costs trending higher again, companies have looked to green forms of energy such as solar power to shave costs.

"What is driving it is the mechanism that gets their cost structure and their energy costs down," said Bill Chisholm, a retail analyst at Toronto investment adviser MacDougall, MacDougall and MacTier.

"It's a bit of PR in terms of being green, but at the same time they are hoping to get their energy costs down."

Walmart Canada estimates it will save about $70 million in costs over the next five years just with its energy-savings plan including low-wattage light bulbs, energy-efficient cooling systems and solar panels.

Reporting by  The Vancouver Sun

Sponsor: Redbird LED has designed and developed new low cost LED Tube lights that offer retailers reduced energy  and maintenance costs. LED Tube lights also are environmentally friendlily because they contain no harmful mercury. For more information please visit their website, www.commercialledretrofits.com

Redbird LED Tube Lights Available through Atlantic Lighting

Redbird LED Signs Distribution Agreement with Atlanta- based Atlantic Lighting & Supply to Sell LED Tube Lights

Atlanta, Georgia (April 5, 2010, 2010) – Redbird LED, an Atlanta, GA. firm that specializes in the design, manufacturing and distribution of energy efficient LED Tube Lighting for commercial buildings announced today that it had signed a distribution agreement with Atlantic Lighting & Supply to represent Redbird LED in Atlanta.  Atlantic Lighting & Supply has provided lighting solutions for the Commercial, Industrial, Multifamily and Institutional markets since 1982. Their customers include Fortune 50 companies, commercial facilities, retailers, schools and churches.

Atlantic Lighting & Supply are certified distributors for some of the biggest names in the lighting industry and offer customers the most up to date lighting products and services. “Customers continue to face higher energy costs,” said Rob Edwards President of Atlantic Lighting & Supply. It’s no secret through the implementation of lighting upgrades; our customers can both reduce their energy cost and lower their maintenance costs. We are now providing a solution from Redbird LED that allows our customers to achieve both types of savings”

Redbird LED has recently launched a new parking deck lighting solution featuring their LED Tube lighting. The Parking Deck/ Low-Bay Lighting Solutions are available in 2-LED tube and 4 tube LED designs, in enclosed (vapor tight) configurations.  LED Tube Lighting offers numerous benefits to parking deck, warehouse and cold storage facility owners and managers including reduced energy consumption, brighter and more uniform lighting and lower maintenance costs.  Tube LED Lights also create a better customer experience, increase safety, improve the property appearance and contain no mercury or other hazardous material. Energy savings from LED Tube Lights vary by application, but typical reduction from conventional low bay lighting is 30-50%.

 Redbird LED has also recently launched a new educational website Parking Garage LEDS to inform parking garage owners on LED light applications and possible energy savings. The website, www.parkinggarageleds.com, features information on the benefits of using LED Tube Lights in parking garages and parking decks, Frequently Asked Questions, Expected Energy and Maintenance savings from replacing conventional lighting with LED Tube Lights, Company profile of Redbird LED, Case Studies, Technical Details and Purchasing Information.

About Redbird LED- Redbird LED Inc. is led by an experienced team of electrical, optical and mechanical engineers and project managers.   The Redbird LED team includes Licensed Professional Engineers (PEs), LEED AP accredited personnel, and staff has decades of experience in the design and operation of high volume, automated, electronic device manufacturing facilities. Redbird LED is committed to providing its customers quality LED lighting products and systems for both new construction and retrofits of fluorescents, metal halide and incandescent systems.

In addition to manufacturing and selling LED lights and luminaires, Redbird LED provides lighting design services, lighting cost analysis, and has the ability to produce custom luminaires in their in-house fabrication facilities. For more information please contact Jonathan Eppstein, President, at 678-733-2473 or visit the website www.parkinggarageleds.com Redbird LED is located at 1202 Gail Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30319, in Fulton County, metropolitan Atlanta.

City of Powell, Ohio Undergoing LED Lighting Retrofit

On March 23,  Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and the Ohio Department of Development named 28 projects to receive $15 million in grants as part of an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act program to promote energy efficiency.The City of Powell received $821,861 for a solar electric system and an LED lighting retrofit at the Municipal Building and improvements to its parks and recreation facility to save energy.
It is expected that the energy-efficient improvements will save at least $18,500 and up to $30,000 per year, he said.


The Municipal Building also will receive a major retrofit of its lights to support LED technology.

That includes the replacement of 315 fluorescent fixtures and 30 incandescent fixtures inside the building, as well as 33 high-pressure sodium fixtures around the outside of the building.

That part of the project will cost $160,369 and save on light-bulb replacement and maintenance, Fischer said.

"Lights go out (at the Municipal Building) every day. We have a service employee that goes around and replaces those lights, but once we buy the LED lights, we'll save on the cost of replacing lights, because those last years and years. We'll also be able to reassign that employee to something more productive, so it's a benefit to the city as a whole," he said.

The city's parks and recreation offices, 260 Village Park Drive, will receive upgrades such as better insulation, window and thermostat replacements and light sensors for outside lights, which together will cost about $38,000.

"It's an older structure and it needs a lot of upgrades," Fischer said of the parks and recreation facility.

The city was granted funding for most of its wish list. It would have liked to install a geothermal heating and cooling system in the Municipal Building, Fischer said, but that technology was not covered in the parameters of the grant.

"We'd like to get a completely energy-efficient building by using the technology available," he said, adding there may be another grant in the future that the city could pursue to continue those efforts.

Industrial LED Lighting Retrofit Website Launched

Redbird LED announces the release of new marketing campaign and website industrialledretrofits.com.

Atlanta, Georgia (April 2, 2010) –Redbird LED today announces the launch of the marketing campaign Industrial LED Retrofits. Redbird LED is an Atlanta, GA firm that specializes in the design, manufacturing and distribution of energy efficient LED Tube Lighting for industrial buildings and warehouses. Lighting is one of the largest expenses that industrial building owners and facility engineers face. Industrial buildings are usually lighted 24 hours a day, seven days a week or 8,760 hours per year. Retrofitting the fluorescent lighting in an industrial building with a newer technology- LED Tube Lighting will provide dramatic savings.

Redbird LED has recently launched a new industrial building LED retrofit lighting solution featuring their LED Tube lighting. These Lighting Solutions are available in 2-LED tube and 4 tube LED designs, both in exposed (open) and enclosed (vapor tight) configurations.  LED Tube Lighting offers numerous benefits to industrial building owners and managers including reduced energy consumption, brighter and more uniform lighting and lower maintenance costs. Energy savings from LED Tube Lights vary by application, but typical reduction from conventional industrial building lighting can be 30-50%.  Retrofitting older lighting with newer LED Tube Lighting is considered to be the easiest step towards saving energy costs.


Redbird LED is located at 1202 Gail Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30319, in Fulton County, metropolitan Atlanta.  For more information and to review their line of Industrial Lighting Solutions please visit  www.industrialledretrofits.com or call 678.733.2473

Holiday Inn Project Includes LED Lighting Retrofit

Green Overhaul by Michael Maher Located in the D.C.-metro area of Gaithersburg, Md., the B. F. Saul Company Hotel Division’s two-year, $9 million Holiday Inn renovation project began in 2007 as part of the hotel chain’s worldwide campaign to re-launch its brand with a more contemporary image, showcase improved quality and drive consistency. The project included a complete upgrade of the hotel’s exterior and substantial improvements to the interior, all guided by the Holiday Inn “Our Big Green” mission of conserving resources, reducing and recycling waste, and examining the latest in sustainable building methods and products. Numerous ecologically oriented construction strategies were implemented in the overhaul of the 300-room, 35-year-old hotel. “We conducted this renovation with a clear-cut focus on our very real commitment to protecting the environment for future generations, as well as the long-term good of the community,” said Melvin Nichols, the hotel’s general manager.  As part of a complete exterior upgrade and substantial interior improvements, the project incorporated a variety of environmentally responsible and recycled materials, as well as water- and energy-conserving products. “The intent was a soup-to-nuts employment of the latest in sustainable construction,” said Jim Walent, AVP/capital asset manager at B.F. Saul Company Hotel Division. “From low-VOC paints and coatings, to recycled material-based carpet and wall coverings, to low-flow bathroom fixtures and LED lighting, we looked at all the ways to advance the hotel’s structure well into a sustainable future.” One of the largest and most notable project components in the area of energy efficiency was a complete window replacement initiative. Seeking a window solution that provided a combination of high energy ratings, modern aesthetics and improved sound abatement, B.F. Saul Company approached REHAU for advisement on the latest in commercial curtain wall window systems. “The Holiday Inn Gaithersburg project included aggressive goals we felt were ideally achieved by employing our latest REHAU-Polytec 50 hybrid curtain wall system, which we’ve recently introduced into the North America commercial construction market from Europe,” said Mike Maher, Eastern region commercial sales manager, windows and doors, a For Fullarticle please visit-http://www.sustainablefacility.com/copyright/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000792459?view=print t REHAU .     Michael Maher is Commercial Sales Manager - East Region at REHAU. He has been with REHAU in Leesburg, Va., for 30 years and has more than 25 years of experience in the vinyl window and door industry, currently leading REHAU’s efforts in North America with green building technologies to assist owners, architects, engineers and general contractors in combining an energy-efficient envelope featuring high-performance openings with radiant heating / snow & ice-melt solutions that are sourced with geothermal technology.