Lighting Science® Founder Announces LED Installation at New York City’s Lowline Lab
Innovative Grow Lights Now Featured in the World’s First Underground Park
LED powerhouse Lighting Science (OTCQB:LSCG) today announces an exciting collaboration with the Manhattan-based Lowline Lab, a precursor and testing ground for The Lowline, the world’s first underground park. Lighting
Science has developed custom LED grow lighting for The Lowline, which is roughly the size of a football field.
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Lighting Science Founder Fred Maxik and James Ramsey, inventor of the Lowline and principal of Raad Studio at the
Lowline LAB in New York City. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Lighting Science’s groundbreaking LED indoor grow lighting positions them as a leader in their field and the perfect
collaborative partner for the Lowline LAB,” said James Ramsey, inventor of the Lowline and principal of Raad Studio.
HOW TO GROW PLANTS UNDERGROUND
Fueled by their shared passion for pushing the boundaries of design and technology, Lighting Science worked with the Lowline Lab
last year to develop, donate and install 24 adjustable LED lights into the 1000-square-foot aluminum canopy suspended above the
earthy installation at the Lowline Lab. Each hexagonal panel is roughly 2 feet in diameter and features three settings: one that
provides soft-white light, one that mimics daylight, and one that includes Lighting Science’s patented VividGro™ LED indoor grow
light spectrum technology.
Tailored to the indoor agriculture and horticultural markets, VividGro’s patented light spectrum has been proven to increase
plant yields by up to 30 percent, increase the nutritional density of crops by approximately 10-12 percent and decrease energy
consumption by up to 45 percent or more.
“It’s wonderful getting involved with a group of passionate people to do something new and of great value,” said Fred Maxik,
founder and chief technology officer of Lighting Science and inventor of VividGro. “Our job, fitting light into novel forms and
functions, complements their amazing vision of bringing closed urban environments to vivid life with light.”
Teeming with more than 3500 plants, the 1,000-square-foot Lab installation also uses experimental technology that harnesses the
power of natural sunlight through funnel-like solar installations that magnify and direct beams of sunlight to the underground
plant life.
By combining the power of VividGro LED panels and the Lowline Lab’s “Remote Skylight” technology, co-founders James Ramsey and
Dan Barasch found that even on the darkest winter day, they were able to achieve the right light intensity, duration and spectrum
necessary for a wide range of flowers, plants, fruits and vegetables to thrive.
“You know you’re onto something when you can grow pineapples and tomatoes during a New York winter underground,” said
Ramsey.
REIMAGINING URBAN SPACES: ABOUT THE LOWLINE
The Lowline Lab, which has been thriving for the past year, has sparked conversations about new ways that cities and communities
around the world can reclaim abandoned urban spaces. By discovering how to create a sustainable environment for a subterranean
ecosystem, the Lowline is developing new solutions for providing city dwellers with four-season public space.
Set to open in 2021, the Lowline will be the world’s first underground park, one New York Magazine called “the most
exciting civic project since The Highline.” The brainchild of designer James Ramsey and Dan Barasch, the 40,000 square foot Lowline
will be an underground park where a diverse range of flora and fauna will experience natural photosynthesis without direct access
to sunlight. In addition to creating new avenues for public space, the team hopes The Lowline will provide new technology solutions
for indoor agriculture and sustainably-grown local food production.
The Lowline was approved by the City of New York in August, and urban leaders around the world are waiting and watching the
Lowline team attempt to transform an abandoned historic underground trolley terminal on the Lower East Side of New York City into a
botanical garden and cultural attraction in one of the world’s densest urban environments. In addition to Lighting Science, The
Lowline is also working in partnership with international engineering firm Arup, architecture firm RAAD, and renowned landscape
architecture firm Matthew Nielsen and horticulturalists John Mini Distinctive Landscapes.
About Lighting Science
Lighting Science (OTCQB:LSCG) is a global leader in innovative LED lighting solutions that designs, manufactures and brings to
market advanced, intelligent products for consumer and commercial applications. We are committed to using the science of light to
improve the lives and health of people and our planet by inventing breakthrough, biologically-friendly LED lamps and lighting
fixtures. Lighting Science is headquartered in West Warwick, RI, with research and development facilities in Cocoa Beach, Florida,
and offices in China. Find out more about us and our products at www.lsgc.com and join us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the Lighting Science Blog.
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