Metal halide lights have been the de facto standard for illumination of outdoor and large indoor spaces for more than fifty years. As that technology has aged, however, building owners and facility managers are seeing its drawbacks. An industry shift to LED lighting systems has increased in the...
Metal halide lights have been the de facto standard for illumination of outdoor and large indoor spaces for more than fifty years. As that technology has aged, however, building owners and facility managers are seeing its drawbacks. An industry shift to LED lighting systems has increased in the last few years as an understanding that these systems provide more effective illumination, lower maintenance needs and costs, and smaller energy bills.
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Sports fans might notice some of the changes that are happening in the outdoor stadiums and fields where their favorite teams compete. Older metal halide and high-pressure sodium lighting fixtures in those facilities are being retired in favor of LED sports field lighting. Fans are even starting see LED lighting in the home stadiums of some NFL teams. While the NFL might be the highest-profile place you’ll find LEDs, universities, high schools, and many other public outdoor sports fields are jumping on the LED bandwagon. When the advantages of LEDs over traditional outdoor sports lighting are considered, it is easy to understand why LED sports lighting is the winner.
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Commercial outdoor LED floodlight fixtures are quickly becoming widely used across industrial and commercial facilities including warehouses and security perimeters as well as stadiums for enhanced sports lighting. Even though floodlights are available in other forms with older lighting technologies like high intensity discharge (HID), LEDs are simply a better option. Below we'll detail the benefits of LED flood lights.
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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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In today’s fast-paced industrial environment, it’s sometimes difficult to stop for a moment and really see the state of your facility. Insufficient lighting can be detrimental to an industrial facility and can result in slower picking times for warehouses or missed quality inspections in a manufacturing cell. Potential safety hazards top the list of concerns when there is insufficient lighting.
Your lighting system should never be the reason for an on-the-job injury. While many facility managers may know that they need to improve or upgrade their lights, it can be difficult to know where to start. Below we'll discuss advantages of making the switch to industrial LED lighting to help you make your decision.
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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. LEDs also benefit occupants of the building by providing higher quality lighting, and they help to drive down a building or facility’s overhead costs.
In this post, we’ll be looking at three types of indoor LED lighting that your company should consider retrofitting.
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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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Has your business been considering the many benefits of an LED retrofit? Are you 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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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 the better solutions we’d recommend.
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