Acuity Brands Enhances Popular Lithonia Lighting TWH and TWP Luminaires with LED Technology

TWH and TWP LED outdoor wall-mounted luminaires deliver more than 100,000 hours of maintenance-free operation.

Acuity Brands now offers its popular Lithonia Lighting TWH and TWP outdoor wall-mounted luminaires with LED technology.

TWH and TWP LED luminaires are identical in size to their traditional counterparts and offer a familiar, classic appearance while delivering ultra-reliable, energy-efficient LED illumination. With an expected service life of more than 20 years, the TWH and TWP LED luminaires are virtually maintenance free and eliminate up to 12 metal halide lamp replacements. Designed to replace up to a 400W metal halide luminaire, the TWH and TWP LED luminaires offer up to 77 percent in energy savings and are capable of producing up to 6,700 lumens.

“The TWH and TWP LED luminaires are an excellent option when replacing existing traditional wall packs,” said Andrew Nowak, Lithonia Lighting Value Stream Manager, Building Mount Luminaires. “With a larger footprint than other wall packs, the TWH and TWP LED luminaires are able to conceal weathered wall stains and blemishes left by existing luminaires, while also making it possible for a seamless and gradual upgrade to an LED source.”

The TWH and TWP LED luminaires are available in 10, 20 and 30 LED configurations. Unlike some similar competing LED luminaires, which offer only bare LEDs behind a glass or polycarbonate outer lens, the TWH and TWP LED luminaires use individual LED primary optics that focus light on the outer lens of the luminaire and allow a larger percentage of the light to be delivered to the target area.

Available with a choice of two lenses, the TWH LED luminaire features a die-cast front housing and glass lens, while the TWP LED luminaire features a vandal-resistant polycarbonate lens, which makes the TWP ideal for lower mounting heights.

For more information on the latest in LED luminaires for outdoor lighting applications, please visit http://www.lithonia.com.

Luxury Condos Achieve Energy Saving & Aesthetic Goals with LED Lamps from Acuity Brands

Los Angeles-based 1100 Wilshire projects annual energy savings of $17,000 through the installation of more than 700 Acculamp LED lamps.

1100 Wilshire, a 38-story luxury condo high-rise in downtown Los Angeles, installed more than 700 Acculamp® ALSMR16 LED lamps from Acuity Brands to reduce energy and maintenance costs, while still achieving the same look and feel as the original incandescent lamps. Acculamp ALSMR16 LED lamps are ideal for indoor lighting applications where color, extended lamp life and efficacy are critical.

“The space looked the same, and I could not see the individual diodes from the LEDs, which was very significant,” said Gregg Evangelho, building manager at 1100 Wilshire for Action Property Management. “The LED lamps looked like a traditional source, but provided the energy savings we needed. Additionally, installation was incredibly easy, and we were thrilled to use our internal maintenance staff. It really was as simple as changing a light bulb.”

1100 Wilshire reduced wattage from 50-watts to 6-watts by installing the LED lamps. It anticipates approximately $17,000 in annual energy savings.

“The installation at 1100 Wilshire embodies the Acculamp promise of ‘look, performance, and confidence, and exceeded 1100 Wilshire’s criteria for the indoor lighting renovation,” said Seth Owen, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President, LED Lamps and Track Lighting. “The LED lamps contributed to overall building efficiency, while providing a quick return on investment.”

Acuity Brands Extends Leadership Position with High Lumen LED Downlighting Series from Gotham Architectural Downlighting

New Incito series of solid-state luminaires handle a wide range of lighting scenarios with up to 2,000 possible performance combinations.

Acuity Brands continues to demonstrate its innovation leadership with the introduction of the Incito™ LED open downlight series from Gotham Architectural Lighting. Incito is a new series of solid-state luminaires that combine the performance characteristics of multiple light sources and handle a wide array of lighting scenarios.

Incito downlights feature top performance characteristics – lamp life, dimming capability, color, efficacy, and lumen packages – from multiple light sources in a single system, allowing designers to configure luminaires for a variety of ceiling heights from 12- to100-feet. The series also combines long-life LED technology, seamless dimming capabilities and numerous lumen packages, ranging from 2000 to 6500 lumens.

“The design team at Gotham has created a revolutionary LED platform combining the best attributes of quartz, halide and metal light sources for up to 2,000 possible performance combinations,” said Douglas Grove, Gotham Value Stream Leader. “The result is a dramatically increased variety of spaces – from retail stores and restaurants to hotel lobbies and auditorium theaters – that can be illuminated with greater precision and more freedom.”

Incito downlights deliver the energy efficiency and long life of solid-state technology, which results in both energy and maintenance savings over downlights using traditional light sources. It also provides system-wide control because every device in every zone or network is digitally addressable using nLight® technology from Acuity Brands. Incito downlights also offer ultra-smooth dimming capabilities from 100 percent to less than 1 percent standard.

Abundant lumen packages allow Incito downlights to work in many different spaces from atriums to lower corridors. Its diffused lighting, aesthetic appearance and color consistency complement the popular EVO® line of LED downlighting luminaires from Gotham. For more information about LED lighting and controls, please visit Acuity Brands and Gotham on the web.

 

Acuity Brands Introduces Highly Configurable, Energy Efficient D-Series LED Flood Luminaires from Lithonia Lighting

D-Series LED Flood luminaires offer more than 120 performance solutions, including a variety of lumen packages, mounting options and color temperatures for customized applications.

Acuity Brands introduces the D-Series LED Flood luminaires from Lithonia Lighting. This highly configurable family of LED luminaires for outdoor lighting applications is designed to replace 50W to 400W metal halide floodlights for significant energy savings. Specifically, the D-Series Flood Size 3 can save 73 percent in energy costs over 400W metal halides.

D-Series LED Flood luminaires feature advanced chip-on-board technology and reflector optics to create a controlled beam of light. Delivering between 3,675 to 13,750 lumens, the D-Series floodlights have an expected service life of more than 100,000 hours, or more than 20 years of nighttime use. They also maintain up to 84 percent of initial lumens throughout the duration of the product’s life.

“D-Series LED Flood luminaires offer the complete solution for flood lighting,” Brad Dobbs, Value Stream Manager, Lithonia Lighting, Outdoor. “These highly configurable luminaires allow users to customize their flood lighting through multiple lumen packages, optical distributions, mounting options and sizes – all while providing substantial energy savings.”

The D-Series LED Flood luminaires are available in three sizes with seven optical distributions and can be ordered in 3000K, 4000K and 5000K color temperatures. An array of mounting options also allow for flexible aiming methods for any application.

Sleek and compact, the D-Series LED Flood family is significantly smaller when compared to traditional counterparts. Offering a smaller footprint without sacrificing lumen output, the D-Series family blends into the environment it illuminates, creating a dramatic impact with minimal presence.

Multiple Acuity Brands Lighting Solutions Featured in Award-Winning Architectural Projects

Five design projects that received Architectural Lighting magazine’s Ninth Annual Light & Architecture Design Awards incorporated lighting solutions from Acuity Brands. These awards recognize lighting design excellence in residential, interior, exterior, whole building and exhibit lighting applications. Projects featuring Acuity Brands lighting solutions received recognition for outstanding and commendable achievement in the whole building and exterior lighting categories.

An independent panel of judges awarded prizes to the winning projects based on the complexity of the project program and the lighting solutions applied. This year’s panel of judges included renowned lighting professionals who are members of the Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Association of Lighting Designers.

Five of the award-winning designs incorporated Acuity Brands products including Lithonia Lighting®, Hydrel®, Winona® Lighting and Peerless® lighting solutions:

• The United States Institute of Peace, D.C.: Outstanding Achievement, Whole Building category. Incorporated lighting solutions from Lithonia Lighting.
• The National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York: Outstanding Achievement, Exterior Lighting category. Incorporated lighting solutions from Winona Lighting.
• The Martin Luther King National Memorial, D.C.: Commendable Achievement, Whole Building category. Incorporated lighting solutions from Winona Lighting.
• The UC Berkeley, School of Law South Addition, Berkeley, Calif.: Commendable Achievement, Whole Building category. Incorporated lighting solutions from Peerless.
• The Tenley-Friendship Library, D.C.: Commendable Achievement, Whole Building category. Incorporated lighting solutions from Hydrel.

“We would like to congratulate all 2012 Light and Architecture Design Award recipients,” said David Grimm, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President, Marketing. “We are honored that five of the winning projects incorporated either indoor or outdoor lighting solutions from the Acuity Brands portfolio.”

For more information about the Ninth Annual Light and Architecture Design awards please visit: http://www.archlighting.com/lighting-design/ninth-annual-al-light—architecture-design-awards.aspx.

Acuity Brands Expands Portfolio of LED Renovation Solutions with the Introduction of VTLED Relight Assembly Kits from Lithonia Lighting

Long-lasting LED technology results in reduced maintenance and disposal costs.

The Lithonia Lighting® VTLED Relight assembly kits from Acuity Brands, Inc. feature long-lasting LEDs with a service life of up 50,000 hours, reducing maintenance requirements and disposal costs compared to conventional lighting. The VTLED kits’ advanced LED light engine and driver consume less energy than older, less energy-efficient lamps.

VTLED Relight kits can be assembled completely below the ceiling plane. Universal end brackets and a one-piece plug-in light engine, coupled with a below-ceiling assembly capability, make the VTLED kits simple and quick to install. Kits are available in both 2’ x 4’ and 2’ x 2’ configurations.

“The VTLED Relight assembly kits are a high-quality, affordable, attractive and easy-to-install solution for lighting renovations,” said Dave Ranieri, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President and General Manager, Indoor Lighting. “The enhanced lighting experience from the VTLED Relight kits gives the appearance of a complete lighting redesign while using far less material and labor costs as compared with installing new fixtures.”

The VTLED Relight kits create balanced and uniform illumination by eliminating shadows and cave effects for an enhanced aesthetic appeal. The kit’s reflectors soften and distribute light into the space while minimizing luminous contrast between the fixture and ceiling. Sloped end plates provide a smooth transition between fixture and ceiling. Advanced optical film provides superior LED concealment and even illumination across the diffuser.

For more information please visit Lithonia Lighting on the web at http://www.lithonia.com.

 

 

New Eurotique Luminaires from Antique Street Lamps bring Euro-styling, long term reliability to outdoor environments

Family scaled fixtures offer visual appeal, design continuity
 
Popular Euro-styling and superior nighttime performance merge in Antique Street Lamps™ new Eurotique LED luminaires. The high performance fixtures offer design flexibility with striking “Munich” and “Hanover” styles in two different sizes and either post top or pendant mounting.

New Eurotique LED luminaires are family scaled to offer designers the opportunity to create attractive transitions from buildings to pedestrian gathering areas and streets. Multiple luminaire and arm combinations offer a choice of appearances to complement a range of outdoor environments.

“Eurotique luminaires were created to complement virtually any site plan, offering eye-catching shapes and dimensions to facilitate continuity,” said Ben Prichard, Value Stream Manager, Period Outdoor, Acuity Brands. “Modern LED optical assemblies combine exceptional long-term lighting performance and outstanding energy efficiency.”

The fixtures are available with four lumen packages to replace 70- to 175-watt metal halide luminaires. The LED optical system includes 49 and 63 LEDS driven at 350mA & 525mA, which allow strict control of uplight and light trespass to provide full cutoff and cutoff type performance. Individual LED lenses work collectively to provide asymmetric or symmetric distribution.

Other fixture features include the following:

• Quick disconnect light engine for convenient installation and maintenance
• Corrosion resistant hardware,
• Added standard surge protection
• Eurotique luminaires offer exceptional life, with LED L70 values greater than 70,000 hours under typical operating conditions. The fixture is CSA listed for wet locations.

Both the Munich and Hanover styles are available with flat or sag glass lens and with smooth, ringed or fluted ballast housing. The luminaires are offered in black, dark bronze, dark green, verde green, natural aluminum or white, and with custom select and custom match colors. The luminaires are adaptable to virtually any outdoor application, from town squares and city streets to schools and universities, parks and recreational areas, and hotels and resorts.

For further details about new Eurotique luminaires or any of Antique Street Lamps line of decorative outdoor lighting solutions, visit www.antiquestreetlamps.com or call 1-800-410-8899.

Acuity Brands Joins Volunteer Initiative to Build Green Schools

Phoenix schoolhouses will be LEED certified and feature Acuity Brands Smart + Simple Solutions for School Lighting

As part of its initiative to promote and deliver high-performance school lighting, Acuity Brands, Inc continues its support of the Green Schoolhouse Series, which has broken ground on its second project in Phoenix.

The self-described “studio-themed” addition to the Orangewood School is a state-of-the-art schoolhouse, designed to achieve Platinum status under the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Orangewood School is a K-8 school in the Washington Public School District.

“Acuity Brands is proud to continue to be a flagship sponsor to help create schoolhouses in Arizona,” said Tim Hogan, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President for Education Solutions. “Our Smart + Simple Solutions integrate electric lighting, daylighting, and controls to both improve the learning environment and help reduce the overall long-term cost of the structure.”

The 6,000 square-foot “studio-themed” school features the full breadth of the Acuity Brands lighting and controls portfolio, including advanced indoor and outdoor lighting using both LED and traditional high-efficiency fluorescent light sources, together with integrated controls.

Acuity Brands provided Lithonia Lighting®, Mark Architectural Lighting™ and Peerless® general indoor ambient luminaires, as well as Gotham® and Winona® Lighting architectural and accent lighting. Lithonia Lighting and Hydrel® outdoor LED solutions enhance visibility for occupants before and after school hours. And, Sunoptics® skylights are integral components of the lighting and daylighting harvesting design strategy.

“The building maximizes functionality and minimizes energy use through Sensor Switch®  controls, sensors and switches, enabled by nLight® technology, that integrate the building’s lighting and control operations,” said Hogan. “The school also features Lithonia Lighting emergency and exit lighting and RELOC® modular wiring products.”

“Studio” is the second in the series of green schoolhouses that features lighting and controls solutions by Acuity Brands. The program strives to educate students and community members about the importance of sustainable living and building practices. The building features a STEM-devoted (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) classroom, rainwater harvesting capabilities, interactive white boards and an indoor/outdoor amphitheater.

The state-of-the-art school facility was designed by the architecture firm Emc2 Group Architects Planners, PC, with construction being completed by Kitchell. Engineering services are being provided by Heideman Associates, a Zak Company; Larson Engineering; and Olsson Associates.

 

 

Peerless Enters Direct Ambient Market with Peerless Mino LED Luminaires

New 2’ x 2’ luminaires offer energy efficiency, comfortable optics and modern aesthetics.

Acuity Brands, Inc. is delivering high quality direct ambient LED lighting with an architectural focus through its new product Peerless® Mino by Peerless Lighting. A suite of three distinctive 2’ x 2’ direct ambient LED luminaires, Peerless Mino luminaires mark the initial entry of Peerless into the direct ambient LED market.

“Our Peerless Mino product features the same quality optics that have long been hallmarks of our indirect luminaires,” said Meggan Kessler, Peerless General Manager. “In surveying the market, we saw that the accelerated integration of LEDs into architectural recessed luminaires was taking priority over visual comfort. With Peerless Mino, we’ve bridged this gap and proved LED lighting can be as kind-to-the-eyes as it is energy efficient.”

The Peerless Mino luminaires – Recessed, Surface and Pendant – deliver energy efficiency, quality optics, advanced engineering, controls compatibility and application flexibility in a stylish, contemporary form. The luminaires are ideal for use in open and private offices, retail stores, hotels, schools and other interior environments.

Inspired in part by modern abstract paintings of the late 20^th-century, Peerless Mino luminaires embody the same dynamic interplay of positive and negative space found in these works. Subtle gradient shadowing appears along the perimeter of the Peerless Mino lens surface when illuminated. As Peerless Mino luminaires are viewed from different angles, these sophisticated abstractions shift in appearance, adding drama and distinction.

Featuring a dimmable, modular and easily upgradeable LED light engine, Peerless Mino luminaires have been engineered to achieve uniform color consistency within 2.5 MacAdam ellipses, while delivering L80 performance for an expected 50,000 hours (12 to 15 years assuming typical usage patterns)*.

Compared to typical 2’ x 2’ fluorescent troffers, Peerless Mino luminaires are approximately 25 percent more efficient, initially delivering 93 lumens per watt. In a 60’ x 40’ open office, Peerless Mino luminaires spaced 8’ by 8’ on center generate 39 foot candles of illuminance on a 2.5’ work surface, while consuming a frugal .62 watts per square foot. With this kind of operational efficiency, commissioning Peerless Mino luminaires may contribute toward a building qualifying for the LEED® green building certification program.

The luminaires in the Peerless Mino suite are specifiable as nLight® enabled for additional energy savings opportunities. In the Peerless Mino Recessed model, an optional built-in nLight module allows for easy Cat-5 “plug-and-play” connectivity with nLight control and sensor systems. A stand-alone Sensor Switch® nLight module can be ordered, for installation above ceilings or inside walls, in connection with the Peerless Mino Surface and Pendant models. With the nLight module option, a digital lumen management feature can also be specified to maintain constant lumen output, extend the longevity of the LED diodes and achieve additional energy savings of approximately 10 percent over the luminaire’s lifetime.

The Peerless Mino Recessed luminaire installs seamlessly into 2’ x 2’ T-grid or screw slot grid ceilings and is also well suited for use in hard-surface applications. The Peerless Mino Surface luminaire is designed for installation into hard-surface ceilings and walls. The Peerless Mino Pendant luminaire can be suspended from all ceiling types.

Peerless Mino luminaires are IES LM-79 tested, CSA/CUS listed, FCC certified, DesignLights™ Consortium qualified, and feature a Lighting Facts® label under a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

All Peerless luminaires, including Peerless Mino, are available nationally through Acuity Brands sales representatives and authorized distributors. For additional information, please visit the Acuity Brands and Peerless websites.

* Actual performance may differ as a result of end-user environment and application.

Kevin Leadford Presenting at 2012 LED Lighting Evolution Conference

Kevin Leadford, Vice President of Innovation with Acuity Brands Lighting, is speaking at the SID LED Lighting Evolution Conference at Display Week 2012, presented by IMS Research in Boston, Mass. on Wed., June 6.

Leadford’s presentation addresses solid-state lighting alternatives to replace fluorescent troffers. He will provide a historical perspective of troffers, giving context to the various types by distinguishing how they are used and why.

“By looking at the history and evolution of troffers, we can discuss some key issues that have been important in the past and identify emerging trends,” Leadford said. “SSL lighting has cost and performance benefits, but the potential for new styles and form factors is also significant.”

The Lighting Evolution Conference: From Sapphire to Lumens will make its debut at Display Week 2012 at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center. The goal of this event is to allow global industry leaders throughout the supply chain to explore the cutting edge innovations that will shape the future of lighting and backlighting. Lighting Evolution: From Sapphire to Lumens will feature keynotes and presentations from industry leaders, lively panel sessions and plenty of time for networking.

Visit the IMS Conference site for more information.