Redwood Systems’ projects and customers span a wide range of industries, but share the common goal of optimizing opportunities to save energy and enhance productivity in the workplace. Below are project profiles of some highlighted deployments.
Data center/New Construction
Prineville, OR
Alfa Tech (MEP), Rosendin Electric (EC)
Delivers proven energy savings; real-time monitoring and alerts; Contributes energy efficiency, indoor environment credits in project's LEED Gold certification.
Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, has designed one of the most advanced, energy efficient data centers in the world in Prineville, Oregon. The 600,000 sq ft space uses innovations across Facebook's compute infrastructure, power architectures, and highly efficient evaporative cooling system to deliver a 38 percent increase in energy efficiency at 24 percent lower costs. The site has achieved LEED Gold.
With this strategic focus on energy efficiency incorporated into all aspects of their facility’s design, Facebook selected and deployed Redwood’s building-performance lighting system to gain ongoing energy savings. The system also incorporates Redwood’s built-in high definition sensor grid, giving Facebook the capability to monitor and receive alerts on temperature fluctuations and unexpected occupancy.
See how Redwood helped Facebook achieve LEED Gold at their Prineville Data Center:
Corporate offices, innovation lab/Retrofit
Palo Alto, CA
Lighting Application Sciences (Lighting design), Linc Lighting and Electric (EC)
Supports high sustainability goals company-wide; proven energy savings, reduced operational costs and an improved workplace environment.
SAP, the largest global business software provider, is a recognized leader in corporate sustainability having been the highest ranked software company in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index two years running. As part of a comprehensive energy retrofit at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California, they replaced fluorescent lights with LED fixtures powered and controlled by Redwood Systems. SAP saw instant and ongoing energy savings, reduced operational costs, and an improved workplace environment that they use as a showcase to highlight energy efficiency measures with their customers.
"Redwood enables SAP to maximize savings from lighting while providing data around space utilization and temperature mapping that give us the insight we need to intelligently operate our facilities." Larry Morgan, Head of facility Operations, SAP Labs; President, IFMA Silicon Valley.
“Redwood Systems is essential in helping us execute on our energy-efficiency efforts, while contributing to a state-of-the-art work environment at SAP Palo Alto. Between our investment in LEDs and light controls, we expect to achieve approximately $80,000 in annual operational savings and save 70 tons in carbon footprint each year." Peter Graf, Chief Sustainability Officer, SAP.
Learn how SAP is saving big. SAP Labs is maximizing LED energy efficiency and workspace productivity--while saving $80k annually.
Whitney Polcyn Architects (Design), IDeAs (MEP), New Age Electric (EC)
Provides an extensible lighting platform for implementing new advances in LED lighting control, management, and measurement; delivers proven energy savings, expanded control interfaces (via smartphone).
The new Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) conducts visionary advanced research for electronics and electric vehicles, with a focus on battery technology. Due to the significant power demands of a cutting-edge research facility, Volkswagen turned to Redwood Systems’ intelligent lighting control technology to power and control its LEDs. The VW-ERL facility benefits from Redwood Systems’ impactful blend of energy savings and innovative applications such as fine-grain occupancy sensing, daylight harvesting, and comprehensive dimming and scene control through smartphones.
“By partnering with Redwood to deploy an intelligent lighting system, we are now bringing a similar level of innovation to our facilities as we do to building cars,” said Dr. Burkhard Huhnke, executive director at Volkswagen Group’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL). “With Redwood’s flexible and efficient lighting platform we are able to add new functionality and simultaneously evaluate different approaches very quickly, accelerating our ability to deliver on our global environmental goals.”
“I was impressed with the simplicity of commissioning Redwood’s lighting system. Their innovative approach reduces the cost and time involved in installing and commissioning lighting,” said David Whitney, Principal of Whitney Polcyn Architects, the architectural firm for the project. “Working with Redwood Systems to develop a smartphone-based lighting control app for the ERL highlights the utility and flexibility of their control system, as well as their team-based approach.”
Corporate office space/Retrofit
Mountain View, CA
Gensler (Architect), Glumac (MEP), AMS Electric (EC)
Energy savings and space utilization data
Google, a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information, installed Redwood's building-performance lighting system in its headquarter's campus in 2010 and expanded to a second building in 2011.
Building efficiency headquarters/Retrofit
Milwaukee, WI
Energy savings and real-time energy dashboards to serve as showcase for deployment and provide means to fine-tune energy policies for maximum savings.
Johnson Controls, a global technology and industrial company with market leadership in building efficiency products and services, has deployed Redwood Systems' building-performance lighting solution in their Milwaukee corporate headquarters.
“The Redwood solution enables us to fully measure and verify energy savings from lighting and works very well for managing performance in an enterprise environment,” said Andrew DeGuire, vice president of strategy, Building Efficiency, Johnson Controls. “We are continually working to increase the amount and accuracy of occupancy and sensing data for use in Johnson Controls’ building management platforms. Redwood provides some important pieces to that puzzle.”
Demonstrates green technology leadership and sophisticated dimming control for greater energy efficiency.
Qualcomm Atheros, a semiconductor company for wired and wireless communications technologies, selected Redwood Systems for a renovation of their Executive Briefing Center at their San Jose headquarters. They were interested in demonstrating green technology and advanced controls as part of a destination area for its most important customers, investors and partners, The installation includes the latest in LED technology coupled with intelligent lighting controls. By selecting Redwood Systems, Qualcomm Atheros is realizing significant energy savings and will reduce its overall carbon footprint.
“Qualcomm Atheros is committed to using technologies that make our headquarters one of the most attractive and green workplaces around,” said Stephanie Mattson, director of global facilities for Qualcomm Atheros. “Working with Redwood Systems to improve the efficiency of our lighting is one way that we are leveraging the latest products to reduce our impact on the environment and improve our bottom line.”
Remote Data Center / Renovation
Stamford, CT
G3 Architecture (Architect), Triad Consulting (MEP), E-J Electric (Electrical Contractor)
Energy efficiency, remote monitoring dashboard of facility motion, temperature, and traffic patterns, customized alerts for out-of-range temperatures or unexpected access in high value areas of facility.
Jefferies, a global securities and investment banking group, has a new, state-of-the-art data center and included Redwood Systems to both power and control the LED lighting and provide building intelligence in their facility.
"The Redwood Platform was particularly compelling because of its unique combination of advanced dimming, occupancy-sensing, and fine-grained temperature sensing”, said Carlos Hanco, Global Head, Critical Systems Infrastructure, Jefferies. “Having all of these capabilities in one system provides a low-cost way to both save energy, and monitor, measure, and report on our data center space.”
Data center/Renovation
Mountain View, CA
Supports achievement of LEED Platinum status.
Fenwick & West, a national law firm specializing in life sciences and technology, has deployed Redwood Systems in their Tier III LEED Platinum data center. Fenwick has experienced energy savings from lighting of 90% since installing Redwood and achieved a PUE under 1.2. Redwood is also present in conference rooms in the main office area and is integrated with a third-party conference room AV system.
Read how Fenwick & West gained efficiency with Redwood in this article in Consulting-Specifying Engineer
Commercial office space/Renovation
Marin County, CA
Energy savings, remote management, reduced maintenance costs, competitive edge in commercial real estate market.
Managing 59 million square feet of Class A office space nationwide, Equity Office selected Redwood Systems for a commercial tenant upgrade based on superior energy savings, remote management capabilities, and insight into fixture health.
Redwood Systems new upgrade provides Equity Office with a comprehensive lighting control solution that not only reduces unnecessary electricity use, but also increases building value by making it more attractive to prospective tenants. Features such as alerts, light level reporting, and real-time remote monitoring of fixture status allow Equity Office to reduce maintenance costs by diagnosing many performance issues remotely, saving on-site maintenance visits to properties.
Corporate offices/Retrofit
San Jose, CA
DGA (Architect), Alfa Tech (MEP)
Centralized dashboard, accurate, detailed energy reports and comprehensive control.
This technology leader and provider to the LED market selected Redwood Systems to support their commitment to environmentally sustainable operations. Their centralized dashboard includes a custom-developed feature that tracks energy consumption versus standard fluorescents and provides Applied Materials with unprecedented metrics and control over their systems.
As a manufacturer of some of the world’s most widely deployed solutions for producing LEDs, Applied Materials has an acute understanding of the environmental impact a large, global company can have. For their internal LED deployment, they were particularly compelled by Redwood’s ability to provide very accurate, detailed energy reports to measure performance and compare that performance against what the standard fluorescent baseline would be in their rollout.
Corporate HQ/Renovation
Washington, DC
RTKL DC Associates GHT (Architect/Interior Designer), Chartered Consulting Engineers (MEP), Forrester Construction (GC), Power Services (EC) Varia Systems (LV), Advanced Power Controls (Integrator)
Maximum energy savings from lighting, ability to measure and verify power usage, space utilization data, integration with building management systems.
AtSite is a leading Building Solutions Company that delivers high-performing buildings and spaces offering holistic solutions that lower costs, increase efficiencies, and deliver better environments for people. AtSite is using Redwood for its LEED Platinum Washington, D.C. headquarters to improve energy efficiency and building insight.
“Redwood Systems’ building-performance lighting platform is a strategic asset in our comprehensive offering. Redwood’s ability to monitor and measure power usage and provide data on space utilization makes it ideal for maximizing energy savings, thus optimizing facility resources. Redwood’s product marries lighting controls and building intelligence, which not only made it a perfect choice for our Headquarters, but also a best in class solution to recommend to our clients.” Davor Kapelina, President & CEO, AtSite, Inc. http://www.atsiteinc.com/
Office Space/Retrofit
San Jose, CA
City of San Jose
Energy savings
The City of San Jose is using Redwood to control lighting and save energy across more than 10,000 square feet in its Facility Operations Administrative Building. San Jose chose Redwood as part of a move to make the city more energy efficient as well as showcase technology innovation in the heart of Silicon Valley.
