UC Berkeley Relights Campus with Sentry Electric's LED Retrofit Solution

The directional light engine being utilized for UC Berkeley features a color temperature of 5000K, with a CRI of 80, flattering to people, objects, and structures. The rated life of 50,000 hours provides more than 10 years of maintenance free illumination.

Sentry Electric provided the University of California at Berkeley with 1,000 LED retrofit kits for its decorative post top luminaires. When fully deployed, the campus will have reduced their annual electrical demands by 744,600 kW, and the environment will have been spared 568 metric tons of CO2.

UC Berkeley's installation team is field retrofitting the SBP Battery Park tulip style luminaire with a top mounted, lensed LED array that provides either a Type V or Type II distribution. The installation process is being sequenced in phases, which balances labor costs with service. It insures that the campus remains illuminated during the project implementation phase.

The retrofitting of the luminaires with Sentry's LED solution offers a sustainable solution to UC Berkeley by: negating the need to build entirely new luminaires and minimizing the contribution of scrap waste into local landfills; reducing power consumption by 81 percent; eliminating the use of metal halide lamps, which contain mercury; decreasing the frequency of required luminaire maintenance, which impacts scrap waste due to lamp consumption as well as energy consumed in deploying maintenance vehicles; complying with RoHS requirements for restriction of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic components.

''Sentry Electric's association with UC Berkeley goes back many years, and we are proud to have provided the university with its mainstay decorative post top luminaire,'' said Shepard Kay, president of Sentry Electric. ''With the evolution of LED technology, we are honored to have been chosen as the provider of the next generation of lighting for this beautiful campus. We are able to deliver a luminaire that offers sustainability, performance, reduced operating costs and aesthetic value.''

The addition of LEDs to Sentry Electric's product line expands the company's presence in energy saving solutions. Customers may also benefit from the use of induction sources, electronically ballasted HID, and compact fluorescent.