BR Background Ashton Austin, located near the heart of downtown Austin, is a multi-family, luxury high-rise built during the city’s 2006-2010 skyscraper boom. The 36-story building opened in 2009 and stands 413 feet tall. It sits along the shores of the Colorado river and provides magnificent views of the nearby Hill Country and Lady Bird Lake. The Situation With many of the building’s common areas requiring 24- hour lighting, the Ashton maintenance team sought to reduce energy costs and at the same time take advantage of a local utility rebate program. The existing lighting relied mostly on inefficient legacy light sources and contributed to unnecessarily high energy and maintenance costs. After learning of the savings associated with LED lighting, the tenants also decided to

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