San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge upgrade LED lighting

　　San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge in California Bay Area, the East Bridge and West Bridge two parts, one of the world's largest span bridge. Across the Bay Bridge is part of Interstate Highway 80 across the United States, is the direct path of San Francisco to Oakland. Recently, the California Bureau of Transportation (Caltrans) uses advanced energy-efficient LED lighting solutions, completed the Bay Bridge east bridge to replace the existing lighting overall. Musco Lighting Company after more than three years of tests and customized lighting design, and all use Cree XLamp? XM-L LED, thus providing energy efficient LED lighting solutions for the project.

　　Bay Bridge currently has a total of nearly 1,600 lights installed Musco Lighting customized LED lighting, with a total of more than 51,500 pieces of high-performance Cree LED package device successfully lit East Bridge Bridge. Bay Bridge East Bridge LED lighting replacement project is expected to achieve 50% energy savings, life can be up to 15 years, which is almost seven times the life of the bridge of the original lighting technology.

　　To be able to resist the highest level of earthquakes, but also to provide people a unique historical bridge sensory experience, management needs of the Bay Bridge up to 2047 feet long east bridge seismic zone installation long-lasting, energy-saving and environment-friendly lighting, while the traditional metal halide lamps is obviously not suitable for such applications. With its Musco Lighting Solutions as an innovative leader in experience, designed to control glare can be a good compact design customized LED lighting provides a very uniform light and comfortable, consistent with bridge designers and engineers population groups different requirements.

　　In addition to road and suspension, in the east of the bridge deck, bicycle and pedestrian tunnel entrance, self-anchored suspension tower area, is also installed these customized Musco LED lamps. People are now past the Bay Bridge can feel uniform and balanced bright light. Precise optical design such that the light fixture illuminates precisely the area that needs to be illuminated to help eliminate glare and light pollution.