PROJECT GALLERY
At Lind Equipment, we know jobsite lighting and power. And we know how to maximize LED technology to best serve the construction industry.
Our award-winning LED temporary lighting solution is the result of groundbreaking engineering coupled with decades of experience that has completely changed the game on lighting up jobsites. Our customers include some of the most respected contractors across North America who are leading by example in their dedication to sustainable building practices.
To date, the Jobsite360 community of contractors has collectively saved over 900M kilowatt hours!
PROJECTS AND CASE STUDIES
TWZ Group
Centre Block - Parliament Hill
Ottawa, ON - Canada
PCL Construction
Ice District
Edmonton, AB - Canada
Clark Builders
NAIT Productivity & Innovation Centre
Edmonton, AB - Canada
Ledcor Group
Tsawwassen Mills
Tsawwassen, BC - Canada
Zenith Systems
Amazon Ohio
Columbus, OH - USA
Custom Electric
Amazon YYC4 Warehouse
Calgary, AB - Canada
Harbridge + Cross
Anishnawbe Health
Toronto, ON - Canada
PCL Construction
Calgary Cancer Centre
Calgary, AB - Canada
Cleveland Electric
CHOA Hospital
Atlanta, GA - USA
Sun Valley Construction
Concrete Pour
Tucson, AZ - USA
IES Commercial
Elementary School
San Antonio, TX - USA
Beltline Electric
Gallatin Data Center
Gallatin, TN - USA
Paul Durham Electric
Natomas Crossing
Sacramento, CA - USA
J.W. Didado Electric
Sherwin Williams
Cleveland, OH - USA
PCL Construction
True North Square
Winnipeg, MB - Canada
Bana Electric
UBS Arena
Elmont, NY - USA
Fisk Electric
VA Hospital
San Antonio, TX - USA
Vader National Electric
Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, OH - USA
NAIT Productivity & Innovation Centre
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is a leader in technical training and applied education. In September 2018, they officially opened their newest facility, the Productivity and Innovation Centre (PIC) to support their mission to be one of the world’s leading polytechnics. At approximately 17,650 square metres (190,000 square feet), this state-of-the-art purpose-built space is one of North America’s largest innovation spaces.
Adopting the Jobsite360 was a simple way to substantially reduce carbon emissions while also delivering meaningful benefits on the jobsite.
The PIC is progressive in another way: during its construction, the team moved away from traditional – and inefficient – jobsite lighting.
On the Jobsite: Existing Inneficiencies
Traditional temporary lights are a habitual choice for many construction crews. But these lights have significant downsides. They compromise safety because compact fluorescent and metal-halide bulbs contain mercury and toxic heavy metals. Workers can be exposed to these toxins when bulbs break. Furthermore, these lights emit UV radiation and can be a burn hazard since they get extremely hot. Traditional lights waste energy through excessive power consumption. Compact fluorescent and metal-halide lights also waste time. Upon start-up and re-start, they are slow to warm up and cool down; in fact, it is common for power disruptions on the jobsite to result in lighting-associated downtime, a clear loss in productivity that can impact the project schedule. Finally, bulb breakage and burnouts have a negative effect on both time and cost because they require expensive labor for maintenance and cause project downtime.
The Alternative
In a continuing effort by Clark Builders to incorporate sustainable practices into all aspects of the building, they partnered with Vallen, a leading supplier of industrial goods, to adopt Lind Equipment’s Jobsite360 lighting system during the construction phase. The Jobsite360 replaces all traditional bulb-based temporary construction lighting with state-of-the-art, purpose-built LED lights. The Jobsite360 specialists at Lind Equipment reviewed the project floorplans and provided the Clark Builders project team with an optimal temporary lighting layout, which included a full savings analysis and bill of materials. Clark Builders and the NAIT project team found this service to be a valuable tool to evaluate the cost-benefit considerations for the project.
Lind Equipment’s Jobsite360 lighting system reduced energy consumption by 80% and saved more than $30,000 in energy costs alone over the course of the project. The Jobsite360 lighting system paid for itself solely on this project. The lights themselves have an estimated service life greater than five years (at 24/7 usage), which means Clark Builders will further increase their ROI by reusing the lights again and again on multiple future projects.
Labour savings on the PIC project were quite significant. Installation time was decreased with simple plug-and-play daisy-chaining capabilities, and fewer LED lights were required overall. LED lighting’s dramatic reduction in energy demand translated into fewer temporary circuits needed to run the lighting, and with no bulbs to change, maintenance activities were eliminated.
A Sustainable Solution
The environmental impact of the project was reduced by saving more than 200 metric tons of CO2. With the lights being reusable for future projects, the Jobsite360 temporary lighting did not produce any of the landfill or hazardous waste that is typical with traditional bulb-based temporary lighting.
Utilizing Jobsite360 lighting on the PIC benefited the entire project team and all stakeholders. For NAIT, such innovation in environmental sustainability fits the current approach to all campus projects. “New renovations are going to LED lighting as a permanent install, so taking that same efficiency initiative for temporary lighting also makes sense,” pointed out Greg Topinka, Director of Capital Projects, PIC.