Washington Federal Building, Bellingham

Lobby – Cool (blue) light setting

Lobby – White (bright) light setting

Lobby – Warm (yellow) light setting

Washington Federal top floor: Whatcom Center for Philanthropy offices

Conference room with tunable LED troffers

Prism TLC-4000 Series Tunable Task Lamp

Whatcom Center for Philanthropy

Human comfort and productivity, along with energy savings, were primary goals with this complete LED commercial office space retrofit. Occupied by three collaborating philanthropic organizations, United Way of Whatcom County, Chuckanut Health Foundation (CHF) and Whatcom Community Foundation (WCF), this 100% human-centric lighting project exhibits beautiful color tunable fixtures throughout all spaces allowing the inhabitants full control over their lighting environment. 2020 LED provided the human-centric lighting design which included tunable (color adjusting) LED troffers and tunable LED task lamps for each desk.

Highlights

Energy Reduction	89%
ROI	4360%
Simple Payback	5 months
Annual Savings	$10,853

Detail

Customer Goals	Human Comfort and Productivity
Market Type	Commercial Office Space
Project Type	Retrofit
Building / Project Name	Whatcom Center for Philanthropy - 100% Human Centric Lighting
Project Location	Washington Federal Building, Bellingham WA
Product Type	Color tunable LED office fixtures
LED Fixtures	Sigma Luminous 2x2 tunable LED troffers
LED Lamps	Prism LED tunable task lamps
Controls	Sigma Luminous wall touch controllers, vacancy occupancy controllers
Year Complete	2014
% compared to conventional	90% savings over 19 year lifetime operation
Simple Payback (Energy Savings)	5 months (compared to new conventional fluorescent troffers)
Utility	Puget Sound Energy
Rebate - % of total	46%
Total Energy Conservation Incentives	$16,259 (PSE rebate: $9,313, $6.946 CEC incentive)
Other Benefits	Human centric health benefits, tunability, energy savings, aesthetics, maintenance