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I am submitting for my, or on behalf of another, organization for building(s) that have installed lighting systems that fall into one or more of the ILC’s Recognition Categories.
My organization has enrolled as an ILC Supporter and has actively supported the Campaign through programs or incentives that accelerate the adoption of advanced sensors or integration of lighting systems, through Participant recruitment and support, and/or through energy justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
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Recognition Categories
This category seeks to recognize installations of lighting sensors and controls used in ways that go beyond the norm of general occupancy, daylighting, dimming, and scheduling approaches. We're particularly interested in applications where sensors and controls are used to achieve greater energy savings, streamline operations, improve occupant comfort and experience, or simplify installation, commissioning, and operation of advanced or integrated lighting systems. Examples include:
  • Exemplary luminaire-level lighting control implementation
  • Exemplary networked lighting control implementation
  • Exemplary tunable white lighting implementation
  • Projects that use remote or bulk commissioning, wireless sensors and controls, power-over-ethernet, and other novel approaches.
Provide a clear written narrative about how your lighting system sensors and controls are going beyond the norm, the novel capabilities they provide, and the resulting outcomes (e.g., incremental savings, improved business operations, occupant satisfaction, etc.). Please highlight any features that make this project exemplary. Sites will be evaluated on the novelty of the approaches and the details provided regarding the benefits/outcomes.
Provide a clear written narrative about any measured or perceived benefits, including energy related outcomes and any non-energy related outcomes. Were there any possible incremental savings from the installation? Was there any technology in the lighting system that led to improved installation / commissioning / operation of the lighting system?

Please note the system type installed (LLLC, NLC, etc.), any building automation system or energy management information system platform used to integrate controls, and additional information deemed informative, including summary data quantifying energy benefits, business operation benefits, or occupant satisfaction (e.g., from formal or informal surveys).

This category seeks to recognize exemplary projects and solutions in installations less than 50,000 square feet in size. Advanced lighting controls and integrated lighting systems are not one-size-fits all; tell us how your small project has incorporated an advanced lighting system that works for the space and occupants. Examples include:
  • Buildings without building automation systems
  • Projects with a small number of light fixtures to control
  • No dedicated facility managers
  • Novel room control applications
Provide a clear written narrative about the facility and how your project has incorporated an advanced lighting system that works for the space and occupants. Please highlight any features that make this project exemplary.
Provide a clear written narrative detailing any measured or perceived benefits of the installation, including energy related outcomes and any non-energy related outcomes. What makes your choice of lighting systems beneficial for the occupants and the space?
This category seeks to recognize projects that integrate lighting controls with automatic receptacle controls or "smart" outlets to automatically power connected devices on or off. Using the lighting systems occupancy sensors and/or scheduling capabilities to turn off appliance loads when the space is vacant adds to the energy savings of lighting controls and can extend equipment life of the appliances. Plug loads ideal for this control scenario may include computer monitors, standing fans, coffee machines, and other loads that may be left on when spaces are empty.
Provide a clear written narrative about how your plug load device(s) interact and integrate with the lighting system. Sites will be evaluated on the number of plug load points (e.g., receptacles) that integrate with the lighting system and innovative approaches taken towards controlling the plug loads, or communicating about the plug loads controls (e.g., to occupants).
Provide a clear written narrative that highlights the energy savings from the plug loads. Was any analysis performed on the equipment to be controlled? Please include an estimated aggregate average of loads being controlled, and estimated number of controlled receptacles. Please note any building automation system or energy management information system platform used to integrate controls and include additional information deemed informative.
This category seeks to recognize innovative approaches to save energy and improve occupant comfort by managing lighting and HVAC loads together. For example, lighting controls can communicate with HVAC systems to indicate when a space is occupied or vacant in order to modify ventilation or temperature set points. If possible include information on the energy savings, the operation/occupant benefits, and the lighting role in HVAC.
Provide a clear written narrative about the building (e.g., layout, occupancy trends, etc.) and how the lighting controls interface with the HVAC system. Please note any building automation system or energy management information system platform used to integrate controls and include additional details deemed informative.
Provide a clear written narrative including information about energy savings in HVAC as a result of lighting system integration. Were the savings significant? Were deficiencies identified (e.g., improvement opportunities)? Include any energy or non-energy benefits for example: benefits to the operation of the building (e.g., to the facility manager) or its occupants' comfort. Submissions should include information about the spaces where the controls are deployed, how the adjustments to the HVAC system work (e.g., VAV boxes, bladders in the vents, thermostat setback, etc.), the number of lighting fixtures per HVAC points, and an estimate of HVAC energy savings resulting from the integration of the lighting system sensor data.
This category seeks to recognize other ways in which lighting is integrating with building and business systems. Some examples include integrating lighting with
  • Electric grid, photovoltaics, and/or energy storage batteries (e.g., for the purpose of demand reduction, flexible load management, grid services, resiliency, etc.)
  • Asset management systems (e.g., using real-time location)
  • Space optimization / utilization (e.g., using occupancy sensor data to determine space usage)
  • People (e.g., employees, clients, etc. via indoor positioning/location services, etc.)
  • Enhanced daylight system (e.g., shade control)
  • Security systems (e.g., using occupancy sensor signal or gunshot detection)
  • Automated fault detection and diagnostics (e.g., to monitor component/device/system performance) to improve operation and maintenance in a building or outdoor lighting system
  • Other innovative approaches in lighting that do not fit within the above examples
Provide a clear written narrative about how the electric lighting system integrates with other equipment or provide novel features. Is the technology/integration seldom used and/or unique in its approach? If any educational or communication approaches were undertaken to support the adoption of these integrations by end-users, please specify them.
Provide a clear written narrative detailing any measured or perceived benefits of the noted integration(s), including energy related outcomes and any non-energy related outcomes.
This category seeks to recognize exemplary projects within horticultural applications that integrate lighting with HVAC, water, and other building systems to save energy, improve crop yield and quality, reduce the use of harmful chemicals or pesticides, and/or other non-energy benefits. Special consideration offered for greenhouses that provide food in areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, also known as food deserts.
Provide a clear written narrative describing the horticultural application, how lighting was integrated with other systems, and how the systems are integrated and controlled.
Provide a clear written narrative detailing any measured or perceived benefits of the horticultural integration(s), including energy related outcomes and any non-energy related outcomes. Please note any energy, water, or yield impacts observed from a prior installation, or any known differences between similar growth operations utilizing different lighting technologies/approaches. Sites will be evaluated based on the qualitative and quantitative data demonstrating the benefits of high-efficiency lighting and advanced sensors and controls in lighting.
This category seeks to recognize exemplary projects that have successfully deployed energy efficient germicidal ultraviolet (GUV) systems in buildings to reduce the spread of airborne pathogens (such as SARS-CoV-2) and improve indoor air quality. Examples include:
  • Projects that incorporate innovative GUV products or system designs that more efficiently and/or effectively disinfect air
  • Projects that successfully install GUV as a more effective and/or energy efficient alternative to increasing building ventilation, such as increasing ventilation outdoor air fraction or air exchange rate, reducing energy use and/or carbon emissions.
  • Projects that integrate GUV systems with other building systems or devices to optimize energy efficiency, improve health or safety, or other non-energy benefits.
Provide a clear written narrative describing the facility and the installed GUV fixtures. Highlight any energy efficiency features of the system using more efficient GUV technologies or controls, integrating GUV with other systems, and/or using GUV as an alternative approach to increased building ventilation.
Provide a clear written narrative detailing any measured or perceived benefits of the installed GUV system(s) such as energy savings, health, safety, or other business benefits.
This category seeks to recognize projects that use novel ways of maintaining, operating, or financing projects that are aligned with ILC technology areas of interest. Examples include:
  • Lighting installations that make use of service models (Lighting as a Service or Energy as a Service) to support ongoing system maintenance, optimization, and upgrades of advanced lighting systems to improve efficiency and extend the usable life of the system
  • Service and/or financing models that support ongoing system optimization of advanced lighting systems to realize energy savings and improved lighting performance
  • Alternative financing options that allowed for superior technology to be installed up front
Provide a clear written narrative describing the approach(es) taken for maintaining, operating, and/or financing the lighting system, alternatives considered, and how the selected approach(es) were advantageous and helped overcome any existing barriers to the adoption of an advanced lighting system. Does the use of the service model in the project support ongoing system maintenance, optimization, and upgrades of advanced lighting systems to improve efficiency and extend the usable life of the system?
Provide a clear written narrative detailing any measured or perceived benefits of the installation, including energy related outcomes and any non-energy related outcomes. Does the service model support ongoing system optimization of advanced lighting systems to realize energy savings and improved lighting performance? Did it allow for superior technology to be installed up front?
This category seeks to recognize projects aligned with ILC technology areas of interest that have successfully minimized their environmental footprint and impacts across the project lifecycle. Examples include::
  • Lighting-as-a-service (LaaS) and other similar approaches that extend product lifetime and support maintenance or improved End-of-Life outcomes (such as reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, and proper disposal of e-waste)
  • Projects or installations that support take-back programs or reuse or remanufacturing of integrated system parts or components.
  • Projects that use luminaires, controls systems, or other integrated lighting components that feature modular or replaceable components, allowing for upgrades and modifications while the integrated lighting systems remain in-place.
  • Projects that use specific sustainability goals or criteria, and transparency documentation or labeling to determine the selection of the specified luminaires, controls systems or other integrated lighting components.
Provide a clear written narrative describing the has approaches taken to minimize environmental footprint while providing an efficient and healthy lighted environment that aligns with the ILC technology areas of interest. Describe any sustainability approaches that address improved circularity or life cycle approaches, reduced carbon, reduced material health impacts or other novel approaches.
Provide a clear written narrative detailing any measured or perceived benefits of the sustainability approaches, including energy related outcomes and any non-energy related outcomes. This could include extended useful lifetime of luminaires or integrated equipment, carbon savings, luminaires reused/recycled, or sustainability goals achieved.
This category seeks to recognize advanced projects which successfully incorporate energy justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (JDEI) practices which may include siting, installation, contracting, or procurement. Projects must be aligned with ILC technology areas of interest. Examples include:
  • An installation of an advanced lighting system in a building or site that offers benefits to local disadvantaged communities (e.g., offers education on the energy savings approaches, a plan for donating or sharing cost and energy benefits with local communities, etc.).
  • The project or installation team included a community liaison, an approach to community engagement, and/or an approach to restorative justice in the design plan.
  • The project or installation included technical assistance and support in the commissioning phase for small building owners or managers.
  • The project or installation supports community resiliency (e.g., can be used to offset burdens expressed in community, especially during extreme adverse climate events).

Please include any information that you can, and we’ll be happy to follow up with a discussion to find out more or to clarify any questions you may have.
Provide a clear written narrative describing the how the lighting project has successfully incorporated energy justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (JDEI) practices.
  • Does the project team implement effective DEI plans or protocols, does this project or team uncover new DEI gaps or opportunities, was there a DEI approach taken in the procurement or application of the lighting or lighting integration?
  • Does this project center the voice of marginalized people, as experts of place, does this project co-create with community, does this project bring the communities voice into the design process?
  • Does this project improve the resiliency of disadvantaged communities or adjacent communities?
Provide a clear written narrative detailing any measured or perceived JDEI benefits of the lighting project, either quantitative or qualitative.
Supporter Information
Supporter Recognition
This category seeks to recognize ILC Supporters who advance and encourage novel applications of controls and sensors that facilitate the integration of lighting with other building systems. Examples include:
  • Innovative utility programs designed to support adoption of advanced/integrated lighting systems
  • ILC partner recruiting through newsletters, webinars, blogs, or other mechanism that support the ILC and its goals
  • Referrals and number of ILC Partner joins due to the Supporter’s efforts
  • Technical assistance provided for the development of recognition submissions on behalf of ILC Participants
  • Other support for advanced controls and lighting integrated with other building systems for improved energy and building performance
Provide a clear written description of program including start/end dates – please include pilot demonstrations if applicable, or description of contributions to the Integrated Lighting Campaign.
Provide supporting data such as number of buildings/systems impacted, energy savings calculated/measured, outreach efforts on behalf of the ILC, participants/projects recruited to the ILC, etc.
This category seeks to recognize Supporters for efforts to support and encourage the use of advanced lighting that also support Energy Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (JDEI). Examples include:
  • Organizations or individuals offering high quality jobs that are accessible to those in disadvantaged communities (DACs) through workforce training programs or other pathways
  • Organizations or individuals who prioritize accountability to local communities by signing Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) or by otherwise contributing towards equitable outcomes of surrounding communities, minimizing burden, or decreasing environmental exposure to toxins or dangerous chemicals.
  • Organizations or individuals who show a thoughtful and considered JDEI approach to company-level plans and protocols (e.g., internal/corporate environmental, social, and governance policies) that is based on research and data and showing actual or planned impact.
  • Organizations or individuals who are able to increase access to low-cost capital in DACs.
  • Organizations or individuals who increase clean energy jobs, job pipeline, and job training for individuals from DACs.
Provide a clear written narrative describing the how the lighting project has successfully incorporated energy justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (JDEI) practices. Detail any measured or perceived JDEI approaches and benefits, either quantitative or qualitative.
Provide supporting data such as program manuals, website links, quantitative data, and testimonials.
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