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LAMBEAU FIELD Green Bay, USA Images: Crestron
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restron, a global leader in commercial lighting control, has become a lighting control vendor for Lambeau Field, the iconic home stadium of the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After an extensive evaluation,
Crestron was selected to replace and upgrade the stadium-wide controls. The Crestron installation is a cohesive lighting automation system that allows stadium management to easily update lighting preferences and closely monitor and control energy expenditures for the facility. In operation since 1957, Lambeau Field is one of the most legendary and longstanding sporting venues in the United States. The stadium underwent a significant renovation in 2001 and has added several upgrades and expansions since then. As a result of these two decades of changes, there were over 12 disparate lighting control systems from different manufacturers that were not fully integrated. This sparked the search for a single technology provider that could unify and standardise solutions into one ecosystem. “This was a unique project in that the customer, the facilities team at Lambeau Field, started by doing their own research into solutions providers rather than by going through an architect or engineering firm to identify a manufacturer for them,” explained Bill Schafer, Vice President of Sales, Commercial Lighting at Crestron. “It is very rare that an end-user takes on this sort of technology manufacturer recruiting on their own, but when Anne Larson, the Facilities Office Coordinator for Lambeau, reached out to Crestron, we did everything we could to accommodate whatever she needed. Anne had reached out to just about every manufacturer I could name and each of them was put through a rigorous evaluation, but in the end Crestron’s preparation, eagerness, and overall ability to meet every need ended up winning us the project.” Bill played a significant role in this project, not only as a huge Green Bay Packers fan, but by ensuring Anne and her team received everything they needed. He assembled the team with the right personnel on board, remained in constant contact during the installation and facilitated whatever was needed to ensure the experience was as comprehensive and stress-free as possible. The project was a complete design-build that threw many
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