The project on Retrofit Integrated Classroom Lighting System (R-ICLS) seeks to develop retrofit lighting solutions for classrooms to ensure that the luminaires, sensors, and controls work together to provide proper lighting for General and A/V requirements together with lighting for the white board. The project team will help develop and demonstrate various R-ICLS options that will give schools a "good", "better", and "best" way to combine state-of-the-art luminaires, lamps, ballasts, sensors, and controls into cost-effective, retrofit system solutions.

Finelite and the CLTC are key project members.

For the demonstration portion of this project, three different school sites were identified with classroom configurations that would allow appropriate testing of the R-ICLS optoins. An installation contractor was found, and the installations, including monitoring equipment, were completed before the fall 2008 school year began. Data collection and analyses has been ongoing.

The existing lighting layout consisting of three rows of 4-lamp, 4-foot, T12 fluorescent troffer style fixtures (4 units per row) and were replaced with three rows of 2-lamp, 4-foot, T5 fluorescent troffer style fixtures (4 units per row). These installations represented the “Best-Recessed” R-ICLS configuration. Images from the pre- and post-retrofit classrooms are shown above.