The overhead expenses for many commercial properties are highly significant. Parking lot lighting is responsible for a large amount of that budget. Having working lights in a parking lot is essential, and you cannot get away with not having working parking lot lights.
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Glare seems to come hand in hand with bright lighting. With LEDs, however, there are several ways you can benefit from bright lighting without glare. Here are two of them.
Continue readingIs Your Grocery Store Using Four Layers of Lighting?
Grocery stores are split into sections. Not only can your customers delineate the borders of a grocery’s produce section, bakery, dairy section, and more due to the posted signs, but they can sense a difference in how the sections feel.
Continue readingWhat Are You Trying to Achieve with Your Lighting?
Different lighting causes different effects. Depending on the nature of your property, such as whether it’s a commercial store, an industrial site, or an office, you need your lights for different purposes.
Continue readingWhy LEDs Provide Safer Manufacturing Lighting
With older technologies, providing a brightly lit work area conflicts with economics. The reason is their energy inefficiency. On the other hand, LEDs produce less waste heat, and therefore provide bright lighting without high energy bills. LED light is also unidirectional, which means most of it goes exactly where it’s needed: at the work area.
Continue readingKeep Your Cold Storage Cold with LEDs
Different facilities use different lighting systems, and sometimes even different parts of the same building are lit with different bulbs. But LEDs are the best choice for your cold storage sites, regardless of the surrounding infrastructure.
Continue readingMaintain Lighting Standards to Attract Stringent Government Tenants
Owning commercial real estate can be profitable so long as you find the right balance between clients who need precisely what your building has to offer and the relative universality of your buildings.
Continue readingKeep Your Warehouse OSHA-Compliant with the Best Bulbs
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sets strict standards for myriad working and infrastructural conditions across the United States. One of their areas of regulation is lighting…
Continue readingDoes Your Grocery Store’s Lighting Emphasize the Produce’s Color?
Grocery stores are segmented into different sections: the middle aisles of manufactured goods, the back sections of dairy, meat, and drinks, and then produce, bakery, and floral areas on opposite sides of the store. Usually, these sections are marked by signs and even different tiles to help guide shoppers. But those sections are also separated by different lighting styles, and that lighting plays a pivotal role in guiding shoppers, highlighting goods, and encouraging purchases. Here are two of the main factors for finding the right quality of light:
Choose your lights according to Correlated Color Temperature and Color Rendering Index.
The Correlated Color Temperature is based on the color of the light a lamp emits, and, when you’re using white light, enhances different colors and hues depending on its tone. The emittance is cool, which makes your store feel bigger, neutral, which promotes a feeling of well-being and makes customers more comfortable, or warm, which makes the setting feel smaller and more homey. Different lighting works well in different areas, even side by side, to create different feelings and highlight different products.
The Color Rendering Index measures how a light source renders the colors of lighted products. Some lights wash products out and make the colors fade, while others can create a high contrast for a focus on the products’ color. Color Rendering Index (CRI) is measured on a 0-100 scale, and using lights with a CRI between eighty and one hundred is best for a grocery because it makes colors look vivid and natural.
Different areas of a grocery store require different blends of lighting, and these two measures are critical for every display. Lighting the produce section with lights that have a poor CRI make the produce look less well-grown or healthy, regardless of the actual quality of the fruits and vegetables. If you want to emphasize a new organic display, placing lights with an even higher CRI than in the surrounding displays can make organic produce look even healthier and more nutritious.
Improve Hospital Lighting by Exploiting the Different Shades of LEDs
Our bodies have a circadian rhythm that is controlled by the color of sunlight. The color of sunlight during midday is white with some blue. This triggers alertness and elevates mood. During the evening hours, sunlight becomes yellow/orange, which triggers melatonin and causes drowsiness.
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