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Since its inception, the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) has grown from a founding group of five people to nearly 35 staff members and an affiliate partnership list of more than 50 companies, institutions, and organizations. This impressive growth prompted the Center’s move last July from its original location at 1554 Drew Avenue in Davis to its current, 14,000-square-foot facility at 633 Peña Drive. This new location is more than twice the size of its previous space, which enables the CLTC to accommodate multiple demonstration areas and provide more room for education, training, research, and development.
After completing renovations, the CLTC staff held an official open house on January 20, 2010, to celebrate the Center’s innovative accomplishments in the lighting-technologies industry and to showcase CLTC’s energy-efficient lighting-technology research.
More than 300 guests attended the open house, which included remarks from CLTC Director Michael Siminovitch, Chairman Karen Douglas of the California Energy Commission, UC Davis Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Bernd Hamann, and CPUC Commissioner Dian Grueneich. Among the attendees were lighting professionals, representatives of the California Energy Commission, California utility companies, architectural firms, lighting design companies, and other partners of the CLTC.
During the open house, guests toured the new facility and explored affiliate installations including lighting technologies for the office, home, and classroom, as well as for parking lots and garages, street lights, warehouses, and stairwells. Representatives from manufacturing companies were present to explain their technologies to guests at each demonstration area.
Three showcase exhibits were unveiled during the open house, which featured the future of residential, office, and exterior lighting. The Residential LED Lighting exhibit includes four different LED downlights in the kitchen exhibit, LED bathroom vanity fixtures, and LED ceiling fans. That exhibit also included pendant luminaires and sconces.
The Office of the Future exhibit demonstrated lighting solutions in a Herman Miller office scene that separated LED task lighting and overall ambient lighting to create optimal light distribution in an energy-efficient workspace scenario. The office scene also showcases multiple lighting control scenarios that emphasize the benefits of a well-designed task ambient system.
The Center’s Exterior Corridor exhibit included a plasma luminaire, three LED luminaires, an exterior induction/LED hybrid, a bi-level smart LED bollard, LED wall pack, and an LED barn light prototype. Most of the technologies on display are bi-level.
The California Lighting Technology Center’s open house was a success, and it served as an opportunity for partners of the Center to unite in their common goal of reducing California’s energy consumption through leading-edge lighting technology. In addition to forging these connections, the open house allowed the public to see CLTC’s growing accomplishments in lighting-technology research, demonstration, and education.
The future of energy-efficient lighting technologies has never been brighter.
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