Remington Place Retirement Inn, a 64-unit independent-living home in Northeast Seattle, began a conservation program in 1999 with a retrofit of common-area lighting. Since then, they have taken several simple but effective
steps to cut energy use and have emerged as a model for involving employees and residents in energy conservation.
- Remington Place administration began urging staff to conserve early this year. Staff responded by switching incandescents to compact fluorescents and turning off all unnecessary lighting and equipment.
- Remington Place has turned off two banks of parking garage lights at night and has reduced use of overhead lighting in favor of smaller task lights at desks.
- Laundry is done two times per day instead of four times, and laundry room lighting has been reduced.
- Remington is installing programmable thermostats in all 64 of its living units.
- Hot-water tank settings have been lowered, and tanks are shut off completely when living units are vacated due to vacation or
move-out.
