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solutions will be the standard on virtually any campus, and LEDs will be integral in every space.”
All of this control makes the energy- saving technology even more efficient. LEDs allow colleges to participate in Demand Response (DR) programs offered by their local utility. With DR, a school may be called on to curtail its energy use during high-use peak hours, often for
a cash incentive. Well-controlled LEDs can help shave that peak without losing functionality.
They can also change color temperature within a single luminaire to create various environments and effects. “Teachers and administrators now have the option to customize the learning area to produce a more cohesive learning environment,” says McCullough. He points to a study from the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which proved that robust morning light improves sleep and mood as well as lowers stress in office workers. “Providing educators with the ability to ‘warm’ the color temperature of the lighting in the space has the potential to aid calming or settling actions for students just as tuning the light to a ‘cooler’ color temperature containing more blue light could potentially help with focus.”
University of Colorado Boulder Bridges the Night
LEDs were the right solution for Richelle Reilly, campus landscape architect for the University of Colorado Boulder. She was tasked with replacing two pedestrian bridges washed out by flooding in 2013. The structures serve as an important pedestrian thoroughfare, logging 3,000 crossings during the busiest hours. Without them pedestrians were detoured to a path a quarter mile away at the edge
of campus. An inconvenience for sure; students were put off by the hassle and often chose driving over walking.
Replacing the bridges gave Reilly the opportunity to address issues created by the traditional illumination solutions.
Pedestrian poles lit the path well, but
they spilled unnecessary light on the graduate housing complex below. They also beamed light directly up into the night sky, a problem as the corridor is one of the busiest bird migratory paths in the city.
Reilly abandoned poles entirely, instead
embedding LEDs in the bridges’ hand rails. Attached to a sensor, the lights go dark when no one is around. Once a pedestrian approaches, the path is illuminated with safe light levels that do not spill into the residential complex below or the dark night sky above. CPM
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