Value Energy Solutions Completes Parking Garage Lighting Retrofit Project for AT&T Buildings

Lindbergh Center, the first transit-oriented mixed use development in Atlanta, features two fourteen story office towers that are adjacent to the Lindbergh MARTA Station. The Lindbergh Center parking decks are managed by Atlanta based, Lanier Parking Solutions, the largest parking management company in the Southeast.

Lanier Parking contacted Value Energy Solutions to determine what energy savings they could achieve by replacing and updating the lighting in their two enclosed parking decks. Value Energy Solutions completed a thorough analysis of the existing parking deck lighting and AT&Ts energy saving goals Value Energy Solutions recommended retrofitting the parking decks with over one eleven hundred 2-Lamp T-5 54wHO (high output) Vapor Tight Fluorescent lights. Lanier Parking selected a 40,000 hour (extended life) rated lamp to maximize their energy savings and reduce lighting maintenance costs.

AT&T has made energy savings and sustainability a significant corporate priority. They have established an Energy Scorecard to benchmark energy savings at all of their major facilities. A major focus of these facility improvements has been upgrading lighting and HVAC systems. The estimated energy savings from the Lindbergh Center lighting retrofit is an impressive 43% and the cost of the lighting upgrade will pay for itself in less than three years with an ROI of 34%.

Value Energy Solutions and Lanier Parking considered numerous relighting options and discovered the best lighting retrofit solution was using new fluorescent lighting technology. The Vapor Tite Reflector Series Linear Fluorescent fixtures used in the Lindbergh Center retrofit is the pinnacle of Vapor Tight Luminaries. They utilize T-5 lamping which provides better energy efficiency and equal or superior lumen output. Other Vapor Tight features include:

• Proven technology, refined to be more efficient than fluorescents of the past
• T5 Lampsmost energy efficient lighting technology in the fluorescent lighting industry for the cost.
• Surface mounted or may be suspended from ceiling
• Three piece design snaps together without any tools
• Reflector series to maximize light disbursement
• Polycarbonate materials which means corrosion, flame and vandal resistant
• Ideal for parking structures, warehouses, breezeways, canopies and schools

About Value Energy Solutions

Value Energy Solutions is one of the largest energy efficient lighting retrofitting companies in the United States. Realizing the need for building owners, property managers and facility engineers to find ways to conserve energy and cut their operating costs, Value Energy Solutions provides improved energy efficient lighting products as replacements for existing higher wattage fixtures. Value Energy Solutions was launched as a new venture by owners Dean Nations and Alan Carlquist as an expansion of their existing company, Value Lighting, Inc., a premier lighting wholesaler and distributor of lighting products.

The Value Energy Solutions lighting retrofit programs are offered for all commercial building types including Parking Garages, Warehouse/Industrial Buildings, Hotels, Retail Chains, Apartments and Office Buildings.

About Lanier Parking

Lanier Parking Holdings, LLC founded in 1989 is a diversified holding concern whose companies provide parking and transportation management services for hospital, commercial class "A" office buildings, hotels, worldwide events, sports stadiums, restaurants, theaters, entertainment complexes and convention venues throughout the US. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Lanier Parking Solutions is the largest provider of parking and related transportation services in the Southeast, with more than three hundred facilities in 48 cities.

Lanier Parking Solutions' emphasis on customer and quality service has allowed Lanier to grow and thrive in a very competitive environment. In addition to parking garage management, Lanier Parking provides consulting services to building owners and facility managers, innovative payment systems, construction, design and financing services and alternative transportation, traffic congestion and indoor air quality solutions.