Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI), through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, production, and distribution of lighting equipment and specialty products worldwide. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.[3]
Acuity Brands has spun off its specialty chemicals business effective November 1, 2008. The new company is known as Zep Inc. and is traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol ZEP.
To ensure that lighting control systems achieve their design intent, the lighting controls industry recommends a quality assurance process called commissioning. Commissioning ensures that the correct controls are properly installed and perform according to owner project criteria.
Benefits include user acceptance and satisfaction, higher energy savings, verification that the building and its systems perform as intended and full accountability for project participants regarding the quality of their work, which can reduce risk exposure across the design team. These benefits are so advantageous that
LEED now requires basic commissioning of lighting controls (and rewards advanced commissioning), and ASHRAE 90.1-2010 also requires it.
The challenge is that the term “commissioning” is used in different ways. ASHRAE produced Guideline 0-2005, The Commissioning Process, to provide a well-defined process for commissioning whole buildings. The Process includes definition of the owner’s project requirements (pre-design phase), creating a basis of design (design phase), verification and performance testing of building systems (construction phase), and turnover of a systems manual and training to the owner (construction/occupancy and operations phase).
To help lighting practitioners participate in commissioning and building commissioning professionals properly commission lighting and control systems, the Illuminating Engineering Society is currently developing a design guide on this important topic. This publication details the ASHRAE Commissioning Process and provides helpful guidance on how to incorporate lighting and control systems, including checklists and sample testing procedures. According to IES, this publication should become available during the summer of 2011.
Acuity Brands Controls understands the importance of ensuring that the installed control system satisfies the owner project requirements and design intent, and stands ready to support designers and installers throughout the construction process, enabled by product innovation. The nLight digital control system, for example, enables remote calibration and programming of sensors and time-based scheduled devices—simple, with no tools, no ladders. And LC&D, in addition to other technical support to help ensure the successful installation of its systems, provides
Lighting equipment made by the company includes indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures for commercial and institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. The company offers its lighting equipments to electrical distributors, retail home improvement centers, national accounts, electric utilities, utility distributors, municipalities, contractors, catalogs, and lighting showrooms. It distributes these products through independent sales agents, factory sales representatives, distribution centers, regional warehouses, and commercial warehouses
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is pleased to announce the availability of the Winona® Lighting Winline™ 607 LED Submersible Light, designed for decorative landscape applications. This architecturally designed luminaire received the Specialty Lighting Gold Level honor from Architectural SSL Magazine at LIGHTFAIR® 2011. For over 50 years, Winona Lighting has been recognized throughout the architectural design community, serving the commercial, retail, and institutional markets with a portfolio of high-quality and design oriented luminaires suitable for decorative, custom, asymmetric, and landscape lighting applications.
Part of the WinonaLED™ product family, the Winline 607 LED Submersible Light is an LED linear water-cooled submersible luminaire. Available in various color temperatures and in sizes from 30” to 54” in length, the fixture delivers up to 1840 lumens per foot. Its stainless steel end cap and pure copper center tube, as well as its high-impact UV resistant polycarbonate lens material, make it ideal for landscaping applications that require submersible luminaires. The Winline 607 LED Submersible Light incorporates a patent pending method called Cool Core Technology, used to keep the fixture from overheating. This technique moves water through a pure copper heat-sink, providing maximum cooling to the LEDs. Designed to be the most powerful, reliable and easiest to implement submersible LED luminaire, the Winline 607 LED Submersible Light is suitable for installations up to 3 meters deep.
“Since joining Acuity Brands in 2010, Winona Lighting continues to provide customers with technologically advanced lighting solutions that integrate luminaires and controls to maximize energy savings while delivering exceptional quality lighting,” said Ted Biesanz, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President and General Manager, Winona Lighting. “Our new Winline 607 LED Submersible Light, having already received industry accolades, continues the Winona Lighting tradition,” Biesanz continued.
All Winona Lighting products, including the new Winline 607 LED Submersible Light, are available nationally through the Company’s sales representatives and authorized distributors. For additional information, please visit the Acuity Brands and Winona Lighting websites and Acuity Brands’ YouTube Channel. You can also become a fan of Acuity Brands and Winona Lighting on Facebook® and follow Acuity Brands and Winona Lighting on Twitter®.
About Acuity Brands
Acuity Brands, Inc. is a North American market leader and one of the world’s leading providers of luminaires, lighting control systems and related products and services with fiscal year 2010 net sales of over $1.6 billion. The Company’s lighting and system control product lines include Lithonia Lighting®, Holophane®, Peerless®, Mark Architectural Lighting™, Hydrel®, American Electric Lighting®, Gotham®, Carandini®, RELOC®, Antique Street Lamps™, Tersen®, Renaissance Lighting®, Winona® Lighting, Synergy® Lighting Controls, Sensor Switch®, Lighting Control & Design™, DTL®, ROAM®, Sunoptics® and acculamp™. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Acuity Brands employs approximately 6,000 associates and has operations throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
Acuity Brands has spun off its specialty chemicals business effective November 1, 2008. The new company is known as Zep Inc. and is traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol ZEP.
To ensure that lighting control systems achieve their design intent, the lighting controls industry recommends a quality assurance process called commissioning. Commissioning ensures that the correct controls are properly installed and perform according to owner project criteria.
Benefits include user acceptance and satisfaction, higher energy savings, verification that the building and its systems perform as intended and full accountability for project participants regarding the quality of their work, which can reduce risk exposure across the design team. These benefits are so advantageous that
LEED now requires basic commissioning of lighting controls (and rewards advanced commissioning), and ASHRAE 90.1-2010 also requires it.
The challenge is that the term “commissioning” is used in different ways. ASHRAE produced Guideline 0-2005, The Commissioning Process, to provide a well-defined process for commissioning whole buildings. The Process includes definition of the owner’s project requirements (pre-design phase), creating a basis of design (design phase), verification and performance testing of building systems (construction phase), and turnover of a systems manual and training to the owner (construction/occupancy and operations phase).
To help lighting practitioners participate in commissioning and building commissioning professionals properly commission lighting and control systems, the Illuminating Engineering Society is currently developing a design guide on this important topic. This publication details the ASHRAE Commissioning Process and provides helpful guidance on how to incorporate lighting and control systems, including checklists and sample testing procedures. According to IES, this publication should become available during the summer of 2011.
Acuity Brands Controls understands the importance of ensuring that the installed control system satisfies the owner project requirements and design intent, and stands ready to support designers and installers throughout the construction process, enabled by product innovation. The nLight digital control system, for example, enables remote calibration and programming of sensors and time-based scheduled devices—simple, with no tools, no ladders. And LC&D, in addition to other technical support to help ensure the successful installation of its systems, provides
Lighting equipment made by the company includes indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures for commercial and institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. The company offers its lighting equipments to electrical distributors, retail home improvement centers, national accounts, electric utilities, utility distributors, municipalities, contractors, catalogs, and lighting showrooms. It distributes these products through independent sales agents, factory sales representatives, distribution centers, regional warehouses, and commercial warehouses
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is pleased to announce the availability of the Winona® Lighting Winline™ 607 LED Submersible Light, designed for decorative landscape applications. This architecturally designed luminaire received the Specialty Lighting Gold Level honor from Architectural SSL Magazine at LIGHTFAIR® 2011. For over 50 years, Winona Lighting has been recognized throughout the architectural design community, serving the commercial, retail, and institutional markets with a portfolio of high-quality and design oriented luminaires suitable for decorative, custom, asymmetric, and landscape lighting applications.
Part of the WinonaLED™ product family, the Winline 607 LED Submersible Light is an LED linear water-cooled submersible luminaire. Available in various color temperatures and in sizes from 30” to 54” in length, the fixture delivers up to 1840 lumens per foot. Its stainless steel end cap and pure copper center tube, as well as its high-impact UV resistant polycarbonate lens material, make it ideal for landscaping applications that require submersible luminaires. The Winline 607 LED Submersible Light incorporates a patent pending method called Cool Core Technology, used to keep the fixture from overheating. This technique moves water through a pure copper heat-sink, providing maximum cooling to the LEDs. Designed to be the most powerful, reliable and easiest to implement submersible LED luminaire, the Winline 607 LED Submersible Light is suitable for installations up to 3 meters deep.
“Since joining Acuity Brands in 2010, Winona Lighting continues to provide customers with technologically advanced lighting solutions that integrate luminaires and controls to maximize energy savings while delivering exceptional quality lighting,” said Ted Biesanz, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President and General Manager, Winona Lighting. “Our new Winline 607 LED Submersible Light, having already received industry accolades, continues the Winona Lighting tradition,” Biesanz continued.
All Winona Lighting products, including the new Winline 607 LED Submersible Light, are available nationally through the Company’s sales representatives and authorized distributors. For additional information, please visit the Acuity Brands and Winona Lighting websites and Acuity Brands’ YouTube Channel. You can also become a fan of Acuity Brands and Winona Lighting on Facebook® and follow Acuity Brands and Winona Lighting on Twitter®.
About Acuity Brands
Acuity Brands, Inc. is a North American market leader and one of the world’s leading providers of luminaires, lighting control systems and related products and services with fiscal year 2010 net sales of over $1.6 billion. The Company’s lighting and system control product lines include Lithonia Lighting®, Holophane®, Peerless®, Mark Architectural Lighting™, Hydrel®, American Electric Lighting®, Gotham®, Carandini®, RELOC®, Antique Street Lamps™, Tersen®, Renaissance Lighting®, Winona® Lighting, Synergy® Lighting Controls, Sensor Switch®, Lighting Control & Design™, DTL®, ROAM®, Sunoptics® and acculamp™. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Acuity Brands employs approximately 6,000 associates and has operations throughout North America, Europe and Asia.