Auburn Logistics, U-Line,
and UPS Lighting Replacement
Auburn, WA

The parking lots and building exteriors at these 24-hour warehouses had dark lights of various colors. Lights in various shades of white, yellow, and gray reduce visibility and hinder depth perception. The poor lighting created safety risks for employees, trucks, and the thousands of packages moving through these busy warehouses every each day. Dim, dark lighting can create driving risks for the drivers of the dozens of large and small vehicles regularly entering and exiting these facilities. In dim lighting, millions of dollars in trucking assets and packages can become an irresistible temptation.

Now uniform, crisp, bright lighting illuminates the entire facility from the building walls to well beyond the fence perimeters. Even on the darkest, rainiest, winter night, visibility is excellent throughout their property. Drivers, trucks, and packages are safer and their work is completed more easily. Their bottom line is looking brighter, too! Their annual energy cost savings are significant.

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Solution

• Parking lots: replaced 45 400-watt pole lights with 150-watt LED fixtures and replaced 8 1,000-watt flood light fixtures with 320-watt LED flood light fixtures.
• Building exteriors: replaced 49 250-watt wall pack lights with 75-watt LED wall packs and replaced 9 250-watt wall packs with 50-watt LED wall packs
• Fence line: replaced 3 400-watt flood lights with 3 30-watt LED flood lights.

Savings

• Estimated project ROI: 2.7 years
• Rebate savings: rebates paid for 40% of the project costs
• Energy-efficiency savings. Their new LED fixtures use 67% less energy than their old high pressure sodium fixtures.
• Lower lighting maintenance costs. Their high-quality LED lights are expected to last approximately 10 times longer than their old lights. For the next two decades, they can safely budget a modest amount for their lighting maintenance.

Behind the Scenes

The new light fixtures could not be mounted to their light poles using the existing brackets. We had custom brackets designed and manufactured, then we installed their new LED fixtures on their existing poles. Making custom brackets and reusing their 45 light poles saved time, saved money, and kept 45 lamp poles out of the landfill.

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