Practical advice on commercial lighting from LED retrofits to lighting design.

Are you currently retrofitting to LEDs and left with some old light bulbs? Or are you replacing some of your old lights in bulk?

You might be wondering what to do with the pile of leftover lighting products. Do you just pile them up in the back of your building? Do you throw them in the trash? Hopefully not.

As more commercial buildings ditch traditional lighting for LEDs, staying educated about the environmental impact and use of lighting is more important than ever before.

When reading a lighting label or cut sheet for a lighting product, lumen count may seem to be the main metric for measuring the potential of a lighting product to produce brightness. But this metric doesn't tell you everything. A high volume of lumens does not automatically equal brightness in your space. There are several other factors that will impact the end result.  

Let's back up before we go too much further and briefly define lumens.