Limitations of Simple Payback
• Better ways to measure cost effectiveness

New Fluorescent Lamp Technologies
• New T8 lamps - highest lumen high performance, extra long life, and reduced-wattage lamps
• T5 lamps, including reduced wattage versions
• T5HO lamps, including reduced wattage versions

Lamps That Will Be Eliminated in 2012
• Include most T12s and even some T8s
• May not be able to retrofit replace them then

New-Generation Fluorescent Ballasts
• High performance T8, T5, and T5HO ballasts
• Concerns with even new dimming ballasts

T8 vs. T5s & T5HOs
• Lumens, watts including ballasts, lumens per watt, life, mercury content, etc.

LED T8s
• Why high performance fluorescents are so much better
• Potential safety concerns

MODULE 2:  2 hours

Spectrally Enhanced Lighting
• Benefits of high color temperature lamps

Retrofit Strategies
• De-lamping
• Lamp for lamp

Disadvantages of Some Fixtures
• Parabolic troffers
• Indirect or basket troffers

Upscale Retrofit Kits
• More than just reflectors

High Performance Fixtures
• Curved lensed 2 lamp trofferss
• New generation of 1 lamp troffers
• Suspended indirect/direct fixtures

Task Ambient Lighting
• Good and bad task light systems


MODULE 3:  2 hours

Low Power Density Applications
• Open offices
• Individual offices
• Classrooms

Various Sales Models
• End-customers getting options or no options
• Retrofit companies providing unit prices and financials for each fixture and control type
• Benefits of independent lighting consultant and/or third party review

Product Purchasing
• Pros and cons of retrofit contractor or end-customer purchasing

Improve Financials
• EPACT tax deductions for end-customer or lighting designer
• Positive cash flow financing

MODULE 4:  2 hours

Sustainable Lighting Solutions
• Hallmarks of sustainable lighting
• Maximizing the use of daylight
• Responsible manufacturing processes
• Lamp Hg content
• Sustainable case studies

Re-evaluating Emergency Lighting
• Photo-luminescent way-finding signage
• Eliminating nightlights
• Keeping the lights on in an emergency
• NFPA and UL requirements
• Safety and security considerations
• Codes and legislation