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AFTER<br />
BEFORE<br />
CAMPUS<br />
ILLUMINATION
BEFORE<br />
AFTER
PINNACLE LIGHTING GROUP<br />
Outdoor lighting presents a wide array of intricate<br />
considerations, ranging from the pedestrian experience,<br />
recruitment and retention, to energy consumption. College<br />
campuses take on more complex issues when you take in<br />
account the well being of each student and faculty member.<br />
Campus designs embody institutional values and students,<br />
faculty, alumni and partners want to align themselves<br />
with institutions whose values mirror their own. The<br />
buildings and landscape have an enormous impact on the<br />
environment, and institutions can leverage real estate to<br />
reflect their core values.<br />
Some of the most important learning on campus happens<br />
outside the classroom—in the corridors, on the lawns, in<br />
the spaces in between. Designers are finding way to<br />
literally break down walls on today’s campuses, to<br />
promote increased transparency and encourage<br />
spontaneous interaction.<br />
Imagine the possibilities when the days are extended into<br />
the night, continuing impromptu academia, recreational,<br />
and personal human interactions. While lighting the way<br />
to support a great sense of safety and security for all<br />
pedestrians on campus and moving toward a sustainable<br />
lighting model, dramatically decreasing outdoor lighting<br />
energy consumption on campus is the way of the future.<br />
We understand these improvements call upon the<br />
generosity of patrons and donors. The goal of generous<br />
alumni donors is to “pay the school forward” for the<br />
benefits of one’s gift will impart to others. It has been<br />
our experience that donors want to position themselves<br />
as living, breathing, interconnected patrons instead on<br />
canonic, fixed, or stayed institutions and looking for<br />
innovative ways to further enhance their beloved alma<br />
mater. Creating an extended, safer, contemporary and cost<br />
saving green space for students and staff, with outdoor<br />
lighting, attracts forward thinking donors.<br />
Pinnacle Lighting Group is the leading college campus<br />
outdoor lighting specialist in the country. Let us design,<br />
install and maintain your state-of-the-art outdoor<br />
architectural and landscape lighting system.
ENHANCE THE<br />
BEAUTY OF YOUR<br />
CAMPUS AT NIGHT<br />
College Presidents understand the<br />
importance of first time campus visits<br />
from potential students. A beautiful<br />
campus can be the deciding factor in<br />
their college choice, often times “falling<br />
in love” with the campus itself when<br />
they first set foot on campus.<br />
Over the course of four years,<br />
undergraduates cross the campus<br />
thousands of times, reading books on the<br />
quad, meeting outside the library, and<br />
soaking up the atmosphere day or night.<br />
The artistry and beauty of emphasizing<br />
architectural features, coloration<br />
improvements, highlighting attractive<br />
landscape elements and illuminating<br />
your campuses trademark features with<br />
outdoor lighting, may provide that<br />
welcome touch of inspiration to make<br />
your campus their home for the next<br />
four + years.<br />
AFTER<br />
BEFORE
BEFORE<br />
AFTER
ENSURING THE SAFETY OF<br />
YOUR STUDENTS AND FACULTY<br />
Whether big or small, rural or urban, personal safety and security<br />
on campus are big concerns for students and parents across the<br />
country.<br />
On average, sexual assaults and other crimes are more likely to<br />
occur at night.<br />
As you know, in college, nightlife is very important in student<br />
life. Night classes, club meetings, and events occur at night, so<br />
night time traffic rate can be high and opportunities for students<br />
to attend many events. To reduce risks and increase their sense<br />
of security college students are encouraged to take many safety<br />
precautions from enrolling in self defense class, carrying a<br />
whistle or alarm, use an escort system, use safety apps on their<br />
phones, watch their drinks by never leaving them unattended to<br />
walking in only safely lit areas.<br />
Every school has a campus safety or security office, and part<br />
of each student’s tuition funds it. Let it be known your safety<br />
program goes above and beyond standard practices with<br />
strategic outdoor lighting and design plan to protect each<br />
student and employee by illuminating your campus throughout<br />
exposing safety compromised areas.<br />
According to the National Institute of Justice, improving lighting<br />
designs of parking lots, community streets, college campuses<br />
and other exterior areas can reduce crime and property offenses<br />
by 20 percent. This reduction is due to the offender perceiving a<br />
greater risk for apprehension as more adequate lighting makes<br />
them highly visible. One concern is making sure high risk areas<br />
are lit up correctly. Many campuses still use spot lights and flood<br />
lights to light up larger and specific areas. Have you ever found<br />
yourself correcting your eyesight to combat the spot lights<br />
after glare? For some the harsh lights can actually be painful to<br />
the eyes. In addition to light sensitivity, bright lights or glare<br />
can cause a temporary “blindness” where one’s central and<br />
peripheral vision is blocked or washed out by the brightness.<br />
Eliminating bright blinding lights improves your campus safety.<br />
You can’t identify an attacker if you can’t see them. Potential<br />
criminals also assume that enhanced lighting equates to the<br />
organization or residents investing more in their properties and<br />
thus investing more to prevent crime.<br />
By including outdoor lighting planning and installation as part<br />
of your security to your students and faculty, you can offer<br />
adequate safety around the clock.
ENERGY CONSUMPTION SAVINGS<br />
All campuses should be looking to dramatically decrease in outdoor lighting energy consumption. As campus users<br />
move between various nighttime destinations, it is important that lighting strategies are designed to connect space<br />
types with strategies that minimize energy usage and still keeping safety a priority. Replacing old lighting with new<br />
LED bulbs, can save up to 70% in electrical utilities expenses.<br />
BEFORE<br />
AFTER
RECRUITMENT<br />
Just like potential students, potential faculty<br />
and staff look at the overall experience<br />
of the campus experience. Recognizing<br />
a school that puts the safety of their<br />
students and faculty first, becomes high on<br />
the list of life/work benefits.<br />
In fact, good lighting design doesn’t just<br />
deter crime, it also improves productivity,<br />
morale, and health of employees, according<br />
to the American Psychological Association.<br />
“By investing in the health and safety of<br />
employees, organizations may benefit<br />
from greater productivity and reductions<br />
in healthcare costs, absenteeism and<br />
accident/injury rates,” according to the<br />
APA’s website.<br />
Well controlled, bright lights are essential<br />
to keeping workers and property safe while<br />
also improving productivity, morale and<br />
overall health.
DONORS<br />
Placing a dedication plaque on the<br />
wall of campus buildings is one thing,<br />
naming a nighttime designated area<br />
after the donor is quite another. Like<br />
naming a star after them. The beauty of<br />
the night sky is not for sale, but is free<br />
for all to enjoy throughout the evening<br />
with an outdoor lighting system.<br />
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“The Pinnacle team has truly transformed our<br />
beautiful, historic campus, by illuminating<br />
everything from our grounds to the top of our<br />
bell tower. Their expert lighting techniques<br />
highlight and enhance the architecture<br />
and grounds in a way that was completely<br />
unexpected. The fact that our campus will also<br />
be safer and more energy efficient is an added<br />
bonus. Their team worked seamlessly with our<br />
facilities staff, and we are grateful for their<br />
hard work and the beautiful finished product<br />
that will be enjoyed for years to come.”<br />
~Dr. Pamela Davies,<br />
President of Queens <strong>University</strong> of Charlotte<br />
888.338.0186<br />
pinnaclelightinggroup.com | info@pinnaclelighting<br />
4279 Roswell Rd., Ste 102, Atlanta, GA 30342