New Lighting Technologies Reduce Building Operating Costs by Nearly Half, Says Study

It’s common knowledge that in today’s world, the easiest way to reduce costs in any environment is by switching to more energy efficient lighting. While this is true, the process for selecting the most energy efficient lighting choices and control technologies depends largely on type of environment they will be illuminating.

Energy efficient residential lighting. Photo courtesy of techhomeelectric.com.

Factors that need to be taken onto consideration include whether the environment is indoors or outdoors; residential or commercial; the property size; and the amount of available natural light when deciding on the needs of an area.

To find out how much energy a commercial building could save by changing both its bulbs and control technologies, researchers from the National Research Council of Canada conducted a field study to determine what strategies would provide the best saving in an office building setting.

The yearlong study was conducted from the eighth to eleventh floor of a 12-story rectangular, curtain-walled building in Burnaby, British Columbia. The interior space was set up in a way that’s familiar to most office workers.

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