Commercial, NYC

Customer: Vornado is one of the largest owners and managers of real estate in the United States with a portfolio over 100 million square feet in its major platforms, primarily located in the New York and Washington, DC metro areas. The company’s four major platforms include: New York City Office; Washington, DC Office; Retail Properties and Merchandise Mart.

Project Lighting Challenge: 1 Penn Plaza is the 2nd largest commercial property in Manhattan only behind New York’s famed Empire State Building. The imposing black glass tower stands above Penn Station, a major New York commuting hub connecting multiple subway, bus, train, and transit authorities. The building houses 44 high speed elevators to carry its 250,000 weekly visitors to their office destinations. Phoster’s challenge was to provide a custom LED-powered lighting solution to replace the elevators’ current halogen lights. The current system encourages tremendous maintenance costs in energy usage and lamp replacements – the Phoster solution was to match the lighting quality and output of the halogens while dramatically reducing energy usage and eliminating lamp replacement and maintenance costs.

Sub-Challenges:

• Energy Savings accomplished –> each cab was reduced from 500 watts of halogen light to 84 watts of LED Lighting
• All maintenance and lamp replacement costs have been eliminated to date (Nov. 2008), at 24 hour per day on-time the lights have been on for over 20,000 hours
• Developed an emergency back-up battery system which incorporates the existing battery (saving on retrofit costs) and which provides up to 25 times more light for 3 times the duration during power outages, insuring a greater sense of safety for the building’s tenants
• Design the system for optimal thermal dissipation and provide light in the cab while dissipating heat outside the cab thus providing a cool cab environment and additional HVAC savings.

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