Seesmart Technologies, Inc., an LED lighting solutions company based in California, has installed LED lighting in two of the Ashforth Company's properties in Connecticut. The project is expected to offer a quick return on investment of only 15 months and save $200,000.
 
Seesmart's LED retrofit replaced 1,300, 32-watt, T-8 fluorescent bulbs with high-efficiency LED tube lights throughout lobbies, common areas and garages at Ashforth's properties: 707 Summer Street, (Ashforth's headquarters) and 3001 Stamford Square, both located in Stamford, Conn.
 
Seesmart replaced lighting in building locations typically illuminated twenty-four hours a day, such as garages, stairwells, vestibules and lobbies; thus substantially reducing the properties' energy consumption. Additionally, lighting maintenance will also be reduced as ballast replacement is eliminated with LED and bulb replacement is extended due to an estimated useful life 10 times the average of traditional lighting products.
 
Ashforth, the commercial real estate firm, estimates it will save 56 percent on lighting and energy costs annually. The environmentally conscious company will also drastically reduce its carbon footprint by more than 253,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.