Chicago-Area School District Lights Up its Learning Environment with LED Luminaires
Chicago-Area School District Lights Up its Learning Environment with LED Luminaires
2 PagesCASE STUDY / DISTRICT 59 www.acuitybrands.com Page 1 The Challenge During the spring of 2014, Community Consolidated School District 59 in Arlington Heights, Illinois – a suburb of Chicago – decided to make changes to improve the overall learning environment in its schools. After considering the positive impact new lighting could have on students and teachers, Superintendent Art Fessler was excited to get behind the project. Classroom by classroom, the school district planned to make a dramatic change with new lighting. The schools throughout the district were using T8 fluorescent fixtures, which needed to be updated for controllability and light quality. Providing teachers with control of the classroom environment was a top goal of specifying a new lighting and controls s
