Cathedral of Our Lady of The Angeles 
Profile: Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles is the spiritual home to over 4 million Southern California Catholics. Designed by world-renowned Spanish architect Jose Rafael Moneo and consecrated in 2002, the Cathedral celebrates the cultural diversity of Los Angeles with a demanding daily schedule of religious services, programs and events, attracting thousands daily and well over 10,000 on weekends.
Profile: Victoria Gardens, a 147 acre, 1.3 million–square-foot, regional open-air shopping mall, serves as a destination location for over 3.6 million potential shoppers throughout Southern California’s Inland Empire region. Opened in 2004, the unique regional shopping center serves as Rancho Cucamonga’s new downtown, combining retail, shopping, working and living environments combined with civic and cultural amenities. Victoria Gardens’ parking structures required a system that was economic, energy efficient and flexible enough to accommodate the center’s ever-changing schedules and event needs.
Profile: Cal State LA, constructed on the site of an old Spanish mission in the heart of East Los Angeles, has served a diverse group of Los Angeles commuter students since 1947. The Southland’s exploding population has escalated student enrollment and accelerated a construction boom on the Cal State LA campus, most recently with Parking Structure #3, which was completed in 2004.
Objectives
Three Southern California-based high profile parking structure projects presented Los Angeles-based Lighting Control & Design with a unique list of lighting control requirements that specified a flexible, networked, user-friendly lighting control system with daylight harvesting properties, photo sensors and a intuitive graphical management control system to accommodate schedule changes for campus activities on a 24/7/365 basis.
Results:
Daylight Harvesting Properties
Simple-to-use Global Scheduling
Local & Remote Adjustments
Infinite “Pan & Zoom” Graphical Interface Functions
Lower Installation & Maintenance Costs
Rapid ROI
24/7/365 Dial-Up Programming
Free After Market Support
Daylight Harvesting
All three parking structures had lighting control requirements that are similar to those of other large-scale commercial parking lots, site lighting and other stand-alone systems: a scalable system featuring daylight harvesting properties, flexible and adaptable enough to meet constantly changing schedules and requirements with control of both normal and emergency power and low maintenance costs. LC&D’s solution met all these needs and more.
100% Scalable System
LC&D’s GR 2400™ network is a fully-integrated, building-wide system which provides time control, photocells, manual override (digital or contact closure), interface with occupancy sensors, links to building automation and control of emergency power, graphical control and 24/7 technical support. The GR 2400 Relay Panel offers customers advanced programming capabilities yet is easy-to-use.
Graphical Management System Imports AutoCAD 
The Cathedral’s Parking Structure, which accommodates 600 cars, required a scalable, flexible, networked lighting control system that integrated daylight harvesting with manual controls and control of both normal and emergency power. On the Cathedral’s “must-have” list was an intuitive graphical management system that allowed them to import files on AUTOCAD and locate and control any zone of lighting with real-time status.
Point and Click” Graphical Control
Unity GX™ Advanced Graphical Software, which integrates design, programming and management functions, uses intuitive graphical control and a user-friendly graphical interface to change schedules, re-program or re-zone remotely and o ffers complete graphical control from any computer (for local and global controls).
Centralized Control
Control of the CAL State LA Parking Structure #3 is made easy with the GR 2400 lighting control system. Multiple control panels are linked using a cat.5 cable with RJ45 connectors. A single digital time clock acts as a programming and scheduling interface for the entire system and met the three projects’ constantly shifting event requirements and scheduling needs. With a built-in astronomical time clock, the need for photo cells is usually eliminated, lowering maintenance costs. Schedules and relays can be quickly adjusted to meet campus needs and requirements
Scheduling Flexibility for Changes in Store Hours
Victoria Gardens’ parking structure lighting control requirements are similar to those of other large-scale commercial parking lots, site lighting and other stand-alone systems: a scalable system featuring daylight harvesting properties, flexible and adaptable enough to meet the tenant’s constantly changing schedules and requirements for store hours with control of both normal and emergency power and with low maintenance costs. LC&D’s solution met all of Victoria Gardens’ needs and more.
Networked System
The GR 2400 Master Relay Panel’s 32-channel, 365-day/astronomical clock acts as a programming interface for the entire system, controlling all relay panels on all floors, lowering maintenance costs and adjusting schedules and relays to meet tenant requirements and scheduling changes. Typically, one lighting control panel per floor is installed and panels are linked with cat.5 cable. A single DTC clock in the master panel will control all relay panels on all floors.
Lower Maintenance Costs
Control of parking lot lights is made easy with the GR 2400™ System. With a built-in astronomical time clock, the need for photo cells is usually eliminated, lowering maintenance costs. Schedules and relays can be quickly adjusted to meet the tenant’s needs and requirements
Lower Energy Costs & Multiple Trigger Points
The Outdoor Digital Photo Sensor, with multiple photocells, provides daylight harvesting capabilities and controls exterior lights, lowering energy costs. A single photo sensor may be programmed to control any relay(s) in all relay panels with up to 14 separate trip points.
Relay Controls & Manual Overrides
The Chelsea DigitalSwitch™, now capable of being digitally enabled or disabled, controls any relay in any panel, providing override of scheduled campus events.
Rapid Return on Investment
Used in conjunction with the GR 2400 lighting control and HVAC control system, energy use can be reduced by 30% or more with ROI under 30 days in new construction or 6 months when retrofitting an existing space.
After-Market Support, Problem-Solving & Re-Programming Capabilities
LC&D’s Tech Support team is available on a 24/7/365 basis to trouble shoot, problem solve and re-program on a moment’s notice, drastically reducing ongoing regular maintenance costs. LC&D design software can cut design time by 75%, saving money and planning time. LC&D systems are completely monitored, programmed, adjusted and maintained with dial-up programming for the life of the system with changes made while the client is on the phone with our support team.
