Lighting System Audits
MAC Solutions qualified lighting professionals will gladly perform a lighting system audit or survey your facility. Utilizing a Measurement & Verification (M & V) procedure, we manually inspect every lighting fixture to determine accurate levels of output. Thereafter, we provide a comprehensive lighting system analysis of your facility's existing lighting system, pinpointing precisely where energy consumption can be reduced and/or optimized. It is important to remember that each facility's potential savings with energy efficient lighting is different and is ultimately influenced by a number of factors, including energy management.
- Factors Affecting Lighting
- Age and type of fixture
- Size and quantity of fixtures
- Type of ballast
- Environmental degradation
- Number of lamps per ballast
- Current utility rate
- Size and hours of the facility
Choosing an energy efficient lighting system is not an easy task, and that is where our expertise will benefit you. Customizing a plan to fit your individualized needs and delivering the best value to our customers are our utmost concerns. MAC Solutions will gladly determine if your business is eligible for rebates, grants and tax incentives. These compensations encourage our customers to invest in energy efficient lighting equipment through subsidy or the financing of a portion of the total cost with the benefit of a dollar to dollar tax deduction.
Computer Analysis
Specialized software allow us to render the light levels in any room. Once the figures are loaded, our software provides recommendations for lighting enhancement, energy saving lighting and controls.
The Lighting audit
A lighting audit is the simplest and most effective way to evaluate the current lighting system and identify methods of reducing long term operating costs. Many building owners may ask, "Why do I need a lighting audit? I have a reflected ceiling plan or "as-built" drawings when the building was completed".
Unless the building has just been finished or is very young, a building owner or facility manager can't know if the existing system matches what is on older plans. Providing a lighting audit gives building owners the tools necessary to understand their current lighting system. Facility managers now have the information needed to advise those with investment decisions about the potential of the energy efficient system improvement.
The Audit Process
- Fixture count (by type) of every lighting fixture
- Room by room
- Hallways
- Common space
- Fluorescent fixture type analysis
- Lamps per fixture
- Existing lamp type
- Existing ballast type
- Voltage
- Are fixtures dimmable?
- Incandescent fixture analysis
- Existing lamp type
- Existing fixture type
- Voltage
- Are fixtures dimmable?
- High-intensity discharge (HID)
- Type and wattage
- Existing ballast type
- Does light source fit application?
- Can the existing system provide energy savings?
- Task-specific light-level readings
- Room specifics
- Height of ceiling/fixtures
- Color of floors and walls
- Length and width of room
- Open office area with partitions
- Single use office
- Occupancy sensors present
- Hours of operation (may have to use general assumptions for common use area)
- Financial considerations
- Cost of electricity (per hour and demand)
- Existing cost of current products being purchased
- Does the customer have the manpower to complete the project?
- Does the customer have the capital to complete the project, or is financing required?
- Would the customer do the project if the payback warranted it?
- What are the payback requirements?
illuminating opportunities for cutting edge energy efficient lighting solutions