Lighting the Conway High School Retrofit

A school lighting retrofit involves more than the fixtures in a classroom. Corridors, administrative areas, existing energy use, and the academic calendar all belong in the project brief. Malmstrom White's Conway High School project in Conway, Arkansas brought those considerations into one lighting analysis and retrofit scope.

The completed project's portfolio describes a consistent specification across classrooms, corridors, and administrative space. It also documents a fixture inventory and energy baseline, utility rebate research, and installation sequenced around the academic calendar.

Beginning with the existing lighting

Malmstrom White's no-cost lighting analysis identified aging fixtures and projected the energy savings of a full LED conversion before the district committed to a scope. The project highlights also include a district-wide fixture inventory and energy baseline audit.

That sequence gives the retrofit a defined starting point. The existing fixtures and energy use informed the proposed conversion, so the specification could be considered alongside the system it would replace.

For a school team preparing for a similar conversation, an inventory of the spaces and existing lighting is a useful place to begin. Conway High School's published scope connects that initial review to both instructional areas and the corridors and offices that support the school day.

Carrying a consistent specification across spaces

The retrofit covered classrooms, corridors, and administrative areas with a single, consistent specification. The portfolio also identifies CRI 80+ fixtures specified for classroom and instructional space.

These details describe the project at two levels: an overall approach across the building and a fixture requirement for instructional areas. Together, they show how a school retrofit brief can account for several kinds of space while keeping the specification coordinated.

The project page includes the existing project photograph and scope highlights. It provides a reference for discussing the areas included in the retrofit without assuming that every school has the same layout or lighting needs.

Including rebate research in the analysis

Utility rebate eligibility was researched as part of the no-cost analysis before the district committed to the project scope. The energy savings described in the portfolio were projections used in planning; the page does not publish a measured savings total or a rebate award amount.

For this project, the documented point is the timing of that research. Existing lighting, projected energy use, and potential rebate eligibility were considered during the analysis stage, alongside the proposed LED conversion.

Malmstrom White lists lighting analysis and lighting installation as the services delivered for Conway High School.

Scheduling around the academic calendar

Installation was sequenced around the academic calendar to minimize disruption to instructional time. That scheduling consideration sits alongside the fixture specification in the published scope: the project needed a plan for both the lighting and the work in the school.

For school teams organizing a retrofit discussion, the Conway High School project offers several useful starting points:

• Identify the classrooms, corridors, offices, and shared spaces in the scope.
• Review the existing fixture inventory and energy baseline.
• Discuss fixture requirements for instructional space.
• Include utility rebate research during the analysis stage.
• Bring the academic calendar into installation planning.

View the Conway High School portfolio project to see its photograph and scope, or explore Malmstrom White's lighting services in Conway. To discuss a school lighting analysis and retrofit, contact Malmstrom White.