LEDs Magazine, a sister publication of EC&M, recently honored the winners of its seventh annual Sapphire Awards, which recognizes innovative products in the lighting industry. New this year, LEDs Magazine, in partnership with the Lighting Controls Association (LCA), honored four winners of the Design Excellence Awards, which recognize “innovative use of lighting controls, with consideration to the complexity of integration, ease of commissioning and installation, implications for energy usage, and value-added features such as automation, monitoring, and data,” according to the magazine’s original report.
The four Design Excellence Award winners are:
Design Excellence in Networked Lighting Controls Award for LLLC. Lighting controls partners McWong International, Sacramento, Calif., and Silvair Inc., jointly submitted a Class A office building project based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, in which Bluetooth mesh played a significant role in the design, implemented by Energy Management Collaborative (EMC). McWong, Silvair, and EMC implemented a luminaire level lighting control (LLLC) solution to serve the project, which features 17 stories and nearly half a million square feet of commercial and real estate space.
The team installed 3,685 control-integrated luminaires throughout 43 separate areas, which were divided into 708 discrete zones, for maximum flexibility of control scenarios based on tenant needs.
Design Excellence in Networked Lighting Controls Award for Automation. Power Design Engineering implemented a project on its own campus based in St. Petersburg, Fla. The FUSE building, which is 70,000 sq ft and has three stories, incorporates a variety of space functions: open plan, enclosed offices, lighting and control showroom, food services, and more. The company had strict energy goals of 0.65W/ft2; at completion, it had a final total connected lighting load of 0.56W/ft2 with all lighting loads set to 100%.
The judges commended the project’s automation of shading, lighting, communications, and audio/visual systems, and more via a lighting control and automation system, along with the use of data and analytics for daylighting.
Design Excellence in Networked Lighting Controls Award for Energy Management. Gottesman Associates, based in Toronto, was honored in this category for its work at the Ontario Association of Architects headquarters. The association’s renovation goal was to achieve net-zero carbon, according to the Architecture 2030 Challenge targets set in 2020.
Upon completion, the project not only complemented the building’s original architecture but also resulted in an average operating load of approximately 0.1W/ft2, with an approximately 75% reduction in energy compared to pre-renovation levels.
Design Excellence in Networked Lighting Controls Award for Integration. AECOM, based in Cleveland, was selected to illuminate the 2,000-ft-long Glover Cary Bridge, which traverses the Ohio River, connecting Owensboro, Ky., to Indiana. The scope of this project was to effectively illuminate the bridge’s façade with LED luminaires that feature RGBW channels along with a $2 million budget, the ability to allow the U.S. Coast Guard to turn on/off the lights, remote programming of multiple dynamic/static scenes, and synchronization of the controls to music.
The project ultimately accomplished these integration goals while surpassing the energy goals of ASHRAE 90.1.
For more information on these projects and additional Sapphire Awards winners, view the original report from LEDs magazine.
