Tamco Case Study: How LED Lighting Helped Preserve History
LED lighting for residential, architectural, and outdoor applications is expected to reach $54.28 billion by 2022. But why is LED lighting the new preferred product over traditional counterparts such as incandescent lighting? Efficiency, reliability, and cost are just a few factors driving the LED market growth.
Learn how Tamlite IBLED high bay lighting saved instrumental maintenance cost and helped preserve the architectural history of Taylors First Baptist Church in Taylors, South Carolina.
SEWON
Creating a safer and more efficient work environment with LED lighting.
Korean based company, Sewon, operates in LaGrange, Ga. creating automotive parts for Kia. The unique setup of their facility created a difficult and costly process to maintain their lighting. The factory door is shaped in a long rectangle, with a moving arm sliding up and down the entire facility.
In order to replace the frequently broken metal halide luminaires, a large Scissor Lift would have to be brought in to replace the fixture. However, the moving arm that transports raw materials into the machines cannot operate causing the entire plant to be shut down. These constant, and costly, shutdowns were hurting the company’s bottom line.
The decision was made to use the IBLED high bay by Tamlite Lighting. These LED’s could be easily retrofitted into existing fixtures, making installation easy and swift. Increased illumination and better color temperature allowed for more productive and efficient work. The decreased downtime allowed the factory floor to operate daily without interruption.
Taylors First Baptist Church
LED retrofits reduced maintenance costs and downtime for this South Carolina church.
As one of the largest churches in the region, Taylors First Baptist Church has been active for 150 years. Their Worship Center housed 45-foot ceilings, making maintenance extremely disruptive and costly. The church needed an LED retrofit that would have enough output to provide ambient lighting from the 45-foot ceilings and ease maintenance costs.
To preserve the rich architectural history of the church, a lighting overhaul was not a possibility. Since removing existing fixtures and wires would harm the property, retrofitting existing luminaires was the only possibility. To prevent damage to the existing fixtures, all retrofitting would have to be from room side.
With such a challenging situation, Tamlite Lighting found the optimal solution for their budget. Installing the ARFK, with an estimated 50,000-hour life, would retrofit and integrate into their current system and would require virtually no maintenance. The ARFK produced ample lighting for the environment as well as cost much less than conventional lighting solutions to operate.
After the church’s success on their first project with Tamlite Lighting, Taylors First Baptist Church had another equally unique situation. The church’s recreation center was expanded to open memberships outside of their school and congregation, meaning higher traffic and no time for constant maintenance of their HID high bays. Being unable to a afford downtime in such a busy establishment, updating the lighting to LED was a necessity.
An important goal for the church was to increase overall brightness while reducing glare. A color temperature of at least 4000K, horizontal luminance greater than 500, and uniformity of luminance greater than 0.7 are defined as competition-level lighting. Achieving this goal without the additional fixtures was a unique and challenging situation.
By installing the maintenance free HBLED high bays, the lighting inside the gymnasium was increased by 40% making it possible for competitive play allowing the church to host more local sporting events.
With LED’s installed, Taylors First Baptist Church can schedule more events and open their doors to more community members without the risk of downtime, creating a win-win situation for all involved.