Church Brothers Collision Repair, an Indianapolis-based multiple-shop operator, has installed a new environmentally friendly lighting system at its six area shops.
According to Church Brothers’ co-owner Dan Hall, the new energy-efficient fixtures provide 55 percent more light per square foot inside the shops, while consuming only a third of the electricity used by the older system.
“So far, we’ve replaced around 500 400-watt lowbay metal halide lights with new Juno Aculite fixtures that use T5 HO bulbs,” Hall said. “Installations at our Castleton, Greenwood, Zionsville, Shadeland and downtown shops are complete, and now we’re working at our Avon shop to install around 65 new lights to finish the upgrade.”
Hall estimates total cost for the installations at $150,000.
“Given the efficiency of the new fixtures, we should recoup installation cost in about three years,” he said. “So, the upgrade made a great deal of sense from both economic and environmental perspectives.”
This is the second major environmental upgrade Church Brothers Collision Repair has undertaken recently. Five years ago, the firm invested more than $250,000 to become the first collision repair company in Indiana, and one of the first in the Midwest, to convert all six of its shops to environmentally-friendly waterborne paint. This conversion earned Church Brothers the 2009 Indiana Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
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