Bulldog Packaging LED Retrofit, Wicks Electric

Mark: Hi it’s Mark from Top Local, we’re here with Jesse Ramage subbing for Adam Wicks of Wicks Electric talking about a massive LED retrofit project. How’re you doing Jesse?

Jesse: Good, how are you Mark?

Mark: Good. So Bulldog Packaging wanted to swap out some lights, why did they want to do that?

Jesse: Energy savings mostly. They have around 500 lights in their factory so swapping them all to LED’s is a huge energy savings. So we went ahead and did that for them.

Mark: So let’s talk, you’ve got some pictures, tell us about, tell us the story, what was the project like? You worked on it.

Jesse: I do, yeah, it was a cool project. We’re in their factory, they make plastic bags and different types of packaging, it’s a factory that runs 24/7, so scheduling with the staff and everything in Bulldog was tough at times. We pulled some late shifts, mostly we were working night shifts there because that’s when it’s the quietest. Yeah, we changed out, as you can see, we changed out, these are all high bays, so we swapped out, they had mercury lights in their high bays, so we swapped them all out to LED’s. And these are really cool, actually if you walk down this hallway all the lights will be dim if there’s no one in there and as you walk down they get brighter as you get closer to them. They really save a lot of energy because they’re hardly even on if you’re not in there so, yeah, couple more photos here. We also did linear lights. These are basically swapping out normal fluorescent light that you would see everywhere nowadays. These are a kind of LED version of them, pretty cool. This is a tower here, safety was a huge concern here obviously, there’s machines running 24/7 and we’re working above them and around them the whole time, so you always have to be aware of what you’re doing, what you’re holding on to, you couldn’t drop any screws. If you dropped a screw on this tower it’s going to fall into their machine that’s making the bag and they have to shut down the whole machine until they found that one screw. So they were were pretty concerned about that. So we took every safety precaution we could to make sure obviously nothing bad was going to happen. All the lights were really high also, so we had lifts in there, scissor lifts and booms, a lot of lights were difficult to get to, so that was a challenge. But in the end we got it all done and the customer was extremely happy with the planning and how the job all turned out, obviously the energy savings are really good.

Jesse: These lights last a lot longer than a normal high bay light would last and getting up to them, they’re were 30 feet in the air, you don’t want staff having to change those all the time so these are going to last a lot longer, so safety there, no has to get up on a ladder to do it, they’re saving energy. They’re just an all around way better option.

Mark: Great, so if you’re looking for an electrical company that can do LED retrofit while you’re in operation, these guys have hardcore experience in dealing with extremely difficult situations and getting the job done, on time, on budget and in a way that doesn’t effect your operations. Wicks Electric, highest rated electrical company in Vancouver – give them a call 604-765-8439 or check out their website wickselectric.ca. Thanks Jesse

Jesse: Thanks