The Lighting Efficiency Blog

  Wall Pack Lighting

Why Choose LED for Exterior Commercial Lighting Fixtures

LED’s are rapidly becoming the standard choice for exterior commercial lighting fixtures, in part due to their superior durability and versatility, making them ideal for exterior commercial settings. Loading docks, storage yards, and other outdoor commercial environments can operate around the clock with heavy loading machinery and activities that expose commercial lighting to shocks and impacts that can easily damage traditional high-pressure sodium or halogen fixtures. Exterior LED lights include solid state components that are less susceptible to damage from shocks and vibrations. If an LED fixture does experience some damage, the modular nature of many LED lighting systems facilitates easy replacement of a single unit without affecting other fixtures in an exterior commercial lighting array.

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  Industrial Lighting

Savings, Safety, and Productivity – Why Choose Industrial LED Lighting

In today’s fast-paced industrial environment, it’s sometimes difficult to stop for a moment and look around and really see the state of your facility. Insufficient lighting can be detrimental to an industrial facility: slower picking times for warehouse or missed quality inspections in a manufacturing cell are just two general examples. The most crucial is safety hazards to employees. Everyone should leave work the same way they arrived and the lighting system should never be the reason for an on-the-job injury. While many facility managers may know they need to improve, often times they don’t know where or when to start.

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  Fluorescent Lighting

Guide to Indoor LED Lighting

Indoor LED lighting provides a clear advantage over conventional lighting solutions and can free up significant time and resources for building owners, facility managers and other stakeholders by requiring less maintenance time and materials. They also benefit occupants of the building by providing higher quality lighting and help to drive down a building or facility’s overhead costs. In this post, we’ll be looking at three types of interior LED lighting that your company should consider.

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  Wall Pack Lighting

Guide to Outdoor LED Lights

LED lighting is fast becoming the best solution for a wide variety of outdoor lighting applications. The reasons are simple: LEDs are the most energy efficient lighting on the market by far, they have the longest lifespan (and associated product warranties) by 2-10 times over the nearest competing technology, and they produce a very high-quality light with a wide range of color characteristics. They are small, steady-state lights which means they don’t present the breaking or recycling issues common with legacy lighting technology. Perhaps the only downside is that they’re not the cheapest technology on the market. That said, the price continues to come down and a smart investor will recognize right away that the energy savings and a lifespan that could be an order of magnitude (10 times) longer than a traditional bulb is easily worth the investment. You get what you pay for after all.

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  LED Retrofit

What is Lighting-as-a-Service (LaaS) and What does it mean for LED Lighting Retrofits?

Has your business been considering the many benefits of an LED Retrofit, but has been held up on the up front costs associated with it? If so, lighting as a service may be an option worth considering. The lighting industry has been moving in this direction and expects to do so for years to come.

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  Stouch Lighting Services

Why You Shouldn’t Stagger the Implementation of LED Retrofit

So you’ve made the decision to do an LED lighting retrofit at your facility, reviewed various proposals, and are now ready to make the final decision. It may seem tempting to go with the proposal that suggests staggering the implementation of your lighting retrofit, with the key benefit being reduced upfront investment. In this post, we’ll go through the various reasons for why staggering implementation is not the answer, and what better solutions we’d recommend.

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  Fluorescent Replacement Lighting

3 Questions to Ask When Considering Commercial LED Lighting

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  LED Retrofit

Important Considerations Before an LED Retrofit

For building and facility owners and property managers looking to increase the value of commercial properties, it’s important to consider different options that will hold value over time, decrease costs associated with maintenance, and conserve on energy. One way to accomplish these goals is an LED retrofit. With the amount of LED options available, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed when making decisions about updating your building lighting. With the advancement of technology, the decision making process has become much more complicated. Here are the 3 most important things to keep in mind when considering an LED lighting retrofit.

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Campus Safety Benefits of Outdoor LED Lighting

 

There are a lot of variables when it comes to a student’s success in college. Good study habits, passionate teachers, and valuable campus resources all contribute to a positive college experience. One way that a college or university can impact that experience is an outdoor LED lighting system. A well designed LED lighting system can provide both safety and financial benefits for the campus. Colleges and universities have large outdoor spaces and pathways that require appropriate lighting, and parking lots and structures that are illuminated continuously, providing major opportunities for increases in efficiency and lower costs.

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  Commercial Lighting

The Operational Benefits of Outdoor LED Lighting

Due to the unique characteristics of LED lights, they are becoming more and more popular for commercial and industrial applications, especially for outdoor lighting. LED's are more durable, reliable, and need little to no maintenance. An advantageous factor is their long lifespan, which can last for as long as 50,000-100,000 hours. With properly designed fixtures, LED lighting can operate in all environments, and are much more energy efficient than conventional light sources.

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