Acuity Brands Sheds Light on a $125M West Coast Infrastructure Project
ATLANTA, Jan 11, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Acuity Brands, a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is proud to announce its contribution to a Port of Los Angeles marina multi-year renovation project using its Holophane(R) brand of luminaires. A combination of custom design capabilities and the ability to meet technical requirements and service capabilities were the deciding factors in the selection of Acuity Brands'(R) Holophane luminaires. For over 110 years, customers have been buying Holophane brand products, which provide energy-efficient lighting systems for a range of commercial, industrial and outdoor applications.
Located in San Pedro, California, the Port of Los Angeles ("Port") is a major container terminal on the West Coast, which together with the Port of Long Beach, forms the 6th busiest container complex in the world. Since 2004, the Port has made a substantial effort to work with local business leaders and the community to improve the waterfront, with plans for over 7 miles of renovation from the Vincent Thomas Bridge to the Federal Breakwater.
The $125M Cabrillo Way Marina improvement project, which includes construction of roadways, promenades, parking lots, parks, and substantial harbor improvements to the aging 40 year-old marina, is the largest piece of the Bridge to Breakwater masterplan undertaken by the Port. The project, which is now in its second phase, is scheduled to be completed in August 2011.
The unique Holophane Sitelink(R) poles, with patent pending TracPole(TM) and TracLoc(TM) systems, were first introduced to the Port in 2004 by Long Beach, CA-based Lighting Design Alliance. Because of the Sitelink poles' features and flexibility, the Port quickly adopted them as standards for roadway, pedestrian and decorative lighting, as well as for standalone signage. The Holophane design team worked closely with Lighting Design Alliance to develop a signature look and feel for the Port site lighting. The high quality look of the luminaires and poles, combined with fine details such as stainless steel "rigging" on the crossarms and a custom cast "Rope" design clamshell pole base, visually connect the waterfront walkways' lighting with the Port's 100-year history.
In addition to Holophane Pechina(TM) and GlasWerks(R) II Prague(R) luminaires, the Port also uses an historically-inspired Angel Light(TM) decorative luminaire, with a combination of fluorescent biax and metal halide lamping, fitted to the Sitelink pole. There are over a hundred Sitelink poles with Pechina, Prague or Angel Light units installed at the Port, making this one of the most extensive Sitelink installations in the United States.
Acuity Brands also provided hundreds of its Hydrel(R) brand in-ground metal halide lights for dramatic illumination of trees, and LED well luminaires for lighting signage and art installations at the Port.
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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(R), Holophane(R), Peerless(R), Mark Architectural Lighting(TM), Hydrel(R), American Electric Lighting(R), Gotham(R), Carandini(R), RELOC(R), Antique Street Lamps(TM), Tersen(R), Renaissance Lighting(R), Winona Lighting(R), Synergy(R) Lighting Controls, Sensor Switch(R), Lighting Control & Design(TM), DTL(R) and ROAM(R). Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Acuity Brands employs approximately 6,000 associates and has operations throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
About Lighting Design Alliance
Established in 1992 by Chip Israel, Lighting Design Alliance ("LDA") is an internationally-known, full-service lighting design firm. LDA's client base includes real-estate developers from around the world, corporate entities and leading architectural firms. With a diverse staff of in-house designers and support personnel, LDA provides innovative lighting design solutions, seamless digital integration, computer modeling, photorealistic renderings, and even full scale mock-ups that ensure a design will perform as intended.
About the Port of Los Angeles
The Port of Los Angeles, also called Los Angeles Harbor and WORLDPORT L.A., is a port complex that occupies 7500 acres of land and water along 43 miles of waterfront. The port is located on San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles south of downtown.
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Tom Pierce, 740-587-6189
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