Application: Commercial

Location: Symantec Technical Support and Customer Service Center, Springfield, OR

Product: PENTRON^® T5 HO System, Xtreme System T8 Lamps, DULUX^®L and DULUX^® T/E, TRU-AIM^® TITAN IR MR16, & CAPSYLITE IR^® PAR38

Design Team: HOK Burgess of Seattle, architect; HOK Interiors in Los Angeles, interior designer; HOK in San Francisco, electrical engineer.  L.H. Morris in Eugene, OR, electrical contractor.  Jim Benya, PE, FIES, IALD, LC, from Benya Lighting Deisgn in Portland, OR, lighting consultant. 

The Situation

The lighting goal for the Symantec technical support and customer service center in Springfield, Ore., was to demonstrate sensible, cost effective and highly energy efficient lighting in a practical, everyday project.  The building, which is over 200,000-square-feet, includes open offices areas, private offices, conference rooms, multipurpose and training rooms, and hardware and software laboratories.  It also includes videoconferencing areas and the necessary support spaces such as a café and exercise rooms.

The design team included the architect, HOK Burgess of Seattle; the interior designer, HOK Interiors in Los Angeles; and electrical engineering from HOK in San Francisco.  Lighting and electrical work was performed under a design-build electrical contract with L.H. Morris in Eugene, OR.    Jim Benya from Benya Lighting Design in Portland, Ore., was the lighting consultant and worked closely with the design team and the electrical contractor.

The Sares Regis Group developed the building for Symantec, the world leader in Internet security.  It is a modest two-story structure with a central skylight atrium.  The lighting budget was originally based on troffer lighting, but a modest budget increase was provided to enable a highly energy efficient design.

The Solution

For open office lighting, SYLVANIA’s PENTRON^® T-5 HO lamps are used in high performance indirect lighting systems providing 30-footcandle levels.  The outer rows of luminaries nearest the windows are automatically dimmed by daylighting controls using SYLVANIA QUICKTRONIC^® PHO-DIM ballasts.  This system provides the highest available performance in general up-lighting at extremely low cost.

SYLVANIA’s Xtreme T8 lamp and ballast system is used for private office lighting, also providing 30-footcandle levels throughout each space.  Since motion sensors control every private office and all other small rooms, the PROStart PSX ballast ensures long life, even when frequent switching occurs.  Undercabinet lights use this low ballast factor Xtreme ballast to ensure the lowest possible use.

Common areas are illuminated using “sign light” luminaries and industrial-style pendant lights.  The sign light luminaries also employ the Xtreme T8 lamps and ballasts, as do all T8 general lighting systems throughout the building.  The system plays an important role in reducing the power of all T8 lighting systems by 19 percent compared to ordinary T8 lighting systems.  The industrial style pendants use DULUX T/E IN 57-watt triple tube lamps.

DULUX T/E IN downlights, DULUX L wallwashers and SYLVANIA TRU-AIM TITAN IR MR16 lamps are found in the café.  A combination of light sources also are used in the main video seminar room.  Indirect lighting and wallwashing employ DULUX L lamps, TRU-AIM TITAN IR MR 16 downlights and CAPSYLITE IR^® PAR 38 speaker key lights.  Video teleconference rooms use DULUX L 55-watt lamps.

In a simple aesthetic gesture, custom pendant lights are suspended at each end of the central atrium.  Designed in yellow slump glass with natural aluminum frames, these luminaries feature SYLVANIA Xtreme ballasts and lamps, just like the rest of the building.

About 20 percent of the interior lighting systems are automatically controlled for daylight, and motion sensors manage all small spaces.  Preset dimming systems are used in the video seminar, training and video teleconferencing rooms.  Actual lighting energy use is approximately 50 percent of the amount permitted by the Oregon Energy Code thanks to the advanced SYLVANIA lighting systems.

“This was one of the most enjoyable projects I have been associated with.  A creative and open-minded architect, an owner interested in energy efficiency, an exceptional lighting design-build contract and a utility willing to help us fund automatic daylight control all came together.  It was a wonderful teaming effort,” said Benya, PE, FIES, IALD, LC.

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