APEC May 2025 Meeting Announcement!

Topic: An Answer for Reliability and Operational Repairs for LED Lighting?
Speakers: Tom Ries and Ed Merkel—Innovative Facilities Solutions, LLC
With the explosion of LED lighting suppliers throughout the world, reliability is sometimes an issue. Maybe it is too often an issue. The LED commercial/industrial lighting industry faces maintenance and replacement challenges because of the inherent planned obsolescence of most LED lighting that has been installed over the last 8 years. The need for ease of maintenance of existing LED lighting systems needs to be addressed. Bringing resolve to the lighting industry's general illumination problems such as ReLEDability(tool-less light engine replacement), Consistency with look and performance, adaptability for change and or upgrades, ease of configuration, and measurable sustainability with a circular LED lifecycle program. Tom Ries and Ed Merkel with Innovative Facilities Solutions, LLC (IFS) will guide us on a presentation to provide insight into potential solutions to these issues.
Tom Ries founded IFS in 2004 after a 20-year career as a manufacturer's rep selling and marketing consumer products to the retail industry. IFS is an energy efficiency company focused on deploying energy efficient solutions for commercial and industrial facilities. Lighting and power optimization are the main area of focus for IFS and their customers.
Ed Merkel has 30-plus years of business development and sales experience in a variety of business roles. He has 12+ years in Energy Efficinecy commercial contracting, 5-plus years on Commercial Desing and Build sales and business development and 13-plus years in the Commercial Real Estate Brokerage field.

Agenda:
11:30-59am Gathering/Lunch
12:00pm Chapter Notes/Announcements
12:05 pm Presentation Questions to follow, event to conclude by1:00pm