The University of Notre Dame, founded in 1842 by a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, is an independent, national Catholic university located adjacent to the city of South Bend, Indiana, and approximately 90 miles east of Chicago.
Notre Dame is rated among the nation's top 25 institutions of higher learning in surveys conducted by U.S. News and World Report, Princeton Review, Time, Kiplinger's, and Kaplan/Newsweek.
Admission to the University is highly competitive, with more than five applicants for each freshman class position. Sixty-nine percent of incoming freshmen were in the top 5 percent of their high school graduating classes.
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The University of Notre Dame is evaluating the feasibility of LED lighting across the campus by installing LED step lighting from BEGA-USA on the new Irish Green, recessed LED lighting from Cree in the Facilities Building conference room and in the elevator lobby of Hesburgh Library and outdoor decorative area lights from Sternberg Lighting on central campus.
The energy savings in the elevator lobby of Hesburgh Library are particularly high because it is illuminated 24 hours a day. Notre Dame is realizing energy savings of 81 percent for the library installation compared with the previous incandescent lighting and 50 percent for the outdoor lights compared with the previous metal halide lighting. Considering that the campus lies on 1,250 acres and includes 137 buildings, the potential savings from widespread use of LED lighting are tremendous.
A Facilities Building conference room was completely relit with LED lights, providing improved light quality and energy savings of approximately 80 percent, compared with the fluorescent troffers that were replaced.
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