This project is designed to eliminate a significant amount of energy waste by automatically turning off lights in unoccupied spaces. The racquetball and squash courts at the ARC are currently on a single switch through our main building lighting control computer, and all of these courts have the lights turned on as a part of the facility opening procedures. They currently remain on until the building closes. These lights are also turned on during the overnight cleaning shift, resulting in a daily burn time of approximately 20-22 hours a day.

Our proposed project would entail retrofitting the 192 fluorescent troffers to a high-performance T8 system, and replacing the 96 existing recessed mercuty vapor fixtures with new compact fluorescent fixtures in the 12 racquetball courts. (The squash court lighting was upgraded during the recent renovation.) In addition to tl1e lighting retrofit, we will install occupation sensors in the 12 racquetball and 3 squash courts. The resulting system would be accessed via the existing master controls for all courts, which when ON, would allow the occupancy sensors to control lights in each court individually as needed. Our estimated energy savings from the lighting retrofit will be about 16,500 max watts.