The Opportunity
To update a small, outdated office building and secondary roads shop, the Dubuque County West Campus was created - home to a 67,000-square-foot Secondary Roads Facility and a 10,000-square-foot Office Building housing the Assessor, Health Department, Road Department, and Planning and Zoning.
After successfully deploying PoE LED lighting in the courthouse and experiencing impressive savings (between 15% and 20% on energy bills), the county wanted the same system in these new facilities. Due to the size of the Secondary Roads Facility - 570 feet long by 120 feet wide by 40 feet tall. IT Director Nathan Gilmore knew distance would be a challenge: “You very quickly get to 280 feet even doing right-angle runs.”
The Solution
All lighting in the Office Building is PoE LED; five rooms in the Secondary Roads Facility also rely on PoE. GENISYS Leaf Series 2x2 composite fixtures offer white-light color tuning and light-level control, plus Daylight Rhythm based on precise building coordinates. In open-space areas, LaMar Lighting provided direct/indirect linear lighting. IntelliDrive nodes support up to nine devices each.
Belden Small-Diameter 10GXS Category 6A cables and REVConnect connectivity ensured robust performance across long channels and streamlined termination. As a low-voltage solution, only the IntelliDrive, new fixtures, and multifunction sensors and switches needed to be installed and connected - no conduit, junction boxes, or 12-gauge wire.
