{"id":2218,"date":"2020-05-09T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:23:59","slug":"hytche-center-arena-refitted-with-new-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/hytche-center-arena-refitted-with-new-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Hytche center arena refitted with new lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LED lights are brighter, faster reacting & cost-efficient<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, May 9, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The William P. Hytche Athletic Center is UMES’ latest legacy building to go retro-green. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installers from Lighting Maintenance Inc. of Linthicum, Md., spent much of April replacing the metal halide lighting system — commonplace when the arena opened in 1998 — with L<\/strong>ight E<\/strong>mitting D<\/strong>iode fixtures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project supervisor Jeff Bateman said a three-man crew, using 40-foot emerald green scissor-lift platforms, converted a system of some 80-to-90 \u201chigh bay\u201d 1,000-watt bulbs with 56 energy-efficient LED counterparts, including 32 above the basketball-volleyball court.  Because there were no on-campus activities in compliance with mandatory pandemic mediation steps, contractors were in the building alone most of the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bateman said industry standards show LED lights reduce power usage significantly, typically requiring one-third less energy.  Compared to metal halide lights, which typically require five minutes to reach full illumination, the new grid in Hytche can be switched on instantaneously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conversion was nearly three years in the making and between projected savings on reduced electric bills and qualifying for a rebate incentive program offered by local utility Delmarva Power, athletics department officials figure the $200,000 cost will be recouped in three-to-four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new lighting is nearly four times brighter than the old system and meets NCAA standards, which means UMES can resume hosting televised games, including post-season tournament competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe (old) system utilized multiple hand-operated knobs to control the different lighting zones,\u201d Bateman said, \u201cwhile the new light fixtures \u2026 have updated networking capabilities to include dimming and touch-screen controls.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stan Bradley, UMES’ associate athletics director for external affairs who researched the conversion, said the digital hardware will enable the university to pre-program the light system so it automatically will utilize the right amount of lighting for specific events – graduations, job fairs, concerts and, of course, sports competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LED lights are brighter, faster reacting & cost-efficient Saturday, May 9, 2020 The William P. Hytche Athletic Center is UMES’ latest legacy building to go retro-green.  Installers from Lighting Maintenance Inc. of Linthicum, Md., spent much of April replacing the metal halide lighting system — commonplace when the arena opened in 1998 — with Light Emitting Diode fixtures. …Read more Hytche center arena refitted with new lighting<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}