The University of British Columbia (UBC) Sustainable Development study states: “UBC seeks to ensure its long-term economic viability through responsible and effective management, the development of a comparative advantage in its educational and research activities, innovative methods to calculate and account for external costs, to identify cost-savings...” (excerpt). With a campus of over 250 buildings and a combined area of approximately 7 million square feet, UBC needed help in their initiative to reduce campus energy consumption 20% below 1998 levels by the year 2004, while maintaining building “period” luminaires in heritage-designated buildings. With buildings ranging from 1920s vintage to those constructed in the 1980s, there was a wide variety of equipment in use.