Short Pump Town Center
The Short Pump Town Center was a newly renovated open-air shopping mall located in Richmond, Virginia. The day-time atmosphere was perfect, and the shopping center was ready to open. There was just one thing missing - the right nighttime lighting for safety and aesthetics.
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Total savings per year
Background
Brookfield Properties, a fully integrated, global real estate company, renovated The Short Pump Town Center, a premier open-air shopping mall located in the West End area of Richmond, Virginia. The updated center offers more than 140 stores and restaurants, and was designed to be a “community within a community.” The entire mall is pedestrian-friendly, featuring lush landscaping, heated pavilions, beautiful fountains, intimate seating areas, and even play areas for children. Brookfield Properties wanted to make sure that The Short Pump Town Center was the type of place that everyone in the community could safely enjoy.
Situation
Given the purpose for The Short Pump Town Center, it was important to Brookfield Properties to ensure that the mall was as safe in the evening as it was during the day. However, safety wasn’t the only priority, it was also important to improve the night-time aesthetics of the center. Brookfield Properties needed to incorporate an upgraded parking lot lighting solution that would lower energy costs, reduce maintenance costs, and improve light output to ensure customer safety. They came to Eco Engineering to help.
Solution
Eco Engineering performed the design and implementation for Brookfield Properties’ new parking lot lighting system. The new system features LED fixtures which significantly improved the photometric light distribution compared to the existing system. Prior to the upgrade, the parking lot at The Short Pump Town Center contained 137 parking lot light poles, each with four HID fixtures. Eco Engineering replaced each HED fixture with two, new LED fixtures. Additionally, the design allowed each new light fixture to be intelligently controlled. This meant that each fixture on a single pole could be set to operate at a different time, for example, one could be on during the operating hours of the center, while the other would operate only during off-hours from midnight until dawn. The controlled functionality of this system both maximizes energy savings and extends the life of the fixtures.
Energy Savings
Addressing the parking lot lighting in The Short Pump Town Center created a significant reduction in energy usage. This is particularly important given that parking lot lighting can often be overlooked as an area to improve sustainability.
- Approximately 171 kW peak demand reduction projected.
- Annual consumption savings estimated at 459,684 kWh annually – the equivalent of removing 81 combustion engine passenger cars from the road annually.
Incentives
The new lighting system delivers cost savings in terms of both energy consumption and maintenance costs.
- $3,137 monthly energy cost savings.
- $530 reduction in monthly maintenance costs.
- Total annual savings will exceed $44,000 per year.