Sustainable feature #3 - LED lamp

When I came to the US in three years ago, I found some differences in residential culture between Korea and the US. One of them is lighting. Korean people likes bright lighting and day light bulb in house. Thus, I changed all light bulb to energy efficient day light bulbs. 

LED light bulbs

1100 Trinity Mills is advertising that their condo is luxury home. I think that it is needed some differential factor to differentiate their condo as a luxury house. An LED lamp could do this role in condo. 

The LED lamp is five times more expensive than Fluorescent lamp. But, it is worth to adopt.

The LED light bulb is a solid state lamp that uses light-emitting diodes(LEDs) as source of light. This light has huge benefit to save energy costs.That's why currently many new condos and houses use LED lighting. According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, a condo property with 80 to 125 units could save between $6,000 and $12,000 annually with LED lamps. The property could also reduce the CO2 emissions by 1.3 million lbs over the life of the LED lamp. 

 Furthermore, the cost of LED lamp is decreasing. According to LED savingsolutions.com, "given that the cost of the LEDs is increasingly competitive, the payback for owners often comes inside of two year. So an investment that pays for itself in two years that then has a life of 6 or 8 more after the payback generates a very favorable return on investment of 50% or more year over year. 

Benefits

- great energy saving 

- reducing CO2 emission

- favorable return on investment 

- bring an image of luxury condo

*5 times more expensive than other bulbs. But, over 2 year, it could be returned by saving energy costs.