Regardless of what your retail store sells, lighting is one of the most important components of a successful retail space. Lighting mistakes rarely go unnoticed and can have a direct impact on a customer’s shopping experience –– and we all know what happens when a customer’s shopping experience is poor.
Practical advice on commercial lighting from LED retrofits to lighting design.
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Topics: LED, Lighting Maintenance, Retail Lighting
According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the most common general industry accidents are slips, trips, and falls. Having proper lighting is one of the easiest ways to reduce the risk of these types of accidents. When choosing lighting for your warehouse, remember that it needs to be able to achieve two things: enhance safety and increase productivity.
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Topics: LED, Lighting Maintenance, HID, warehouse lighting
It's important to have an established routine for maintenance of any kind, but lighting maintenance –– especially for schools –– should be particularly efficient and consistent. Lighting maintenance headaches may be frequent, but we’ve found that having adequate knowledge and resources are key in managing those headaches.
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Topics: LED, Lighting Maintenance, Fluorescent, HID, Education Facility
The impact of LED lighting on the seeming endless sea of options is greater than just a few new — significantly more efficient — options for a table lamp or track fixture. LED technology has brought plenty of new replacement products, but it has also introduced a whole new category of options: LED fixtures.
This is a question we commonly address: “I’d like to go with LED lighting, but how do I know if I should go with a screw-in replacement product or a new LED fixture?”
Of course, whether you're switching to an LED screw-in or a brand new LED fixture, you're probably well-acquainted with the lighting technology's many advantages. One important one to highlight here: the lumen output, or brightness, doesn't depreciate with LED like it does with fluorescent or HID technology. The lumen output will remain the same over the life of the product whether you go with a replacement lamp or fixture.
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Topics: Product Comparison, LED, Lighting Maintenance, Retail Lighting, Hospitality Lighting, Multi-Family Lighting, Office Building Lighting, Hotel Lighting, Education Facility
When big shopping holidays like Black Friday and back-to-school shopping hit the retail world, it all too often means stores everywhere are scrambling to get the lighting right.
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Topics: Lighting Design, Lighting Maintenance, Retail Lighting, Project Management
This is the second in our series of articles meant to take the mystery out of savings and payback calculations for lighting. From designers to engineers to executives, lighting projects are more commonly cross-functional decisions.
This article focuses on one of the least-covered questions on savings calculations for lighting projects: How can a lighting retrofit save you money on HVAC costs?
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Topics: Savings, Payback, & ROI, Lighting Maintenance, Energy Efficiency, Multi-Family Lighting, Office Building Lighting, Hotel Lighting, Education Facility
Are you currently retrofitting to LEDs and left with some old lamps? Do you just pile them up in the back of your building?
Hopefully not.
As we move forward in the ever-changing world of lighting, staying educated and sensitive to the environmental impact of energy consumption and use of lighting has been more important than ever before. When you purchase lighting, you may not just be thinking about replacing the lamp that is in the
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Topics: Restaurant Lighting, Incandescent, Movie Theater Lighting, Lighting Maintenance, Energy Efficiency, Fluorescent, Inside Regency, Retail Lighting, Parking Garage Lighting, Hospitality Lighting, Hospital Lighting, Multi-Family Lighting, Office Building Lighting, Home Lighting, Hotel Lighting, warehouse lighting, Education Facility
Last year, we published our first-ever LED Buying Guide. We say over and over again around here that our goal is to make lighting easy for our customers, and the LED Buying Guide was published with that objective in mind.
The lighting world has undergone rapid changes over the last decade with the emergence and proliferation of light emitting diode (LED) lighting technology. Just seven years ago, in 2010, less than 10 manufacturers made up 90 percent of the lighting market. Last year, that market share was spread between more than 400 manufacturers, each with its own fluid, iterative product line.
That's a lot to keep up with.
So, how do we make things easier for you?
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Topics: Lighting Design, Restaurant Lighting, Lighting Maintenance, Energy Efficiency, Retail Lighting
Poor Robert Kelly. He has all but lost his name. He is no longer Dr. Robert E. Kelly, political science professor at South Korea's Pusan National University and sought-after expert on South Korean politics. To most of the world, at least, Robert Kelly is now, simply, "BBC Dad."
If you haven't yet seen the video of BBC Dad's unfortunate, cringeworthy 15 seconds of fame, well, here it is.
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Topics: Lighting Maintenance, Project Management
This is the fourth article in our series exploring savings and payback calculations for lighting retrofits. The complexity of lighting payback calculations can make your head spin and make you wonder what applies to you and what doesn't.
This article focuses on the labor savings that you gain when you switch to long-life lighting products, like LED.
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Topics: Savings, Payback, & ROI, Lighting Maintenance, Energy Efficiency, Retail Lighting, Project Management, Office Building Lighting
