Loading docks are often the final connection between a business and the outside world. Yet in spite of the importance of that connection, a business often pays little attention to it as long as it accomplishes the basic function of getting products out of a manufacturing and storage facility and into shipping processes for customers. […]
Author: Christopher Gaines
Pro Tips for Parking Lot Lighting Design
Architects and space planners typically focus on parking lots as an afterthought, if at all. A company’s parking lot is typically the first and last element of the business that a client encounters. The company can create and leave a better impression with its clients by paying more attention to its parking lot lighting. In […]
How Companies are Tackling Light Pollution with Outdoor Lights
Lighting Pollution with Outdoor Lights is defined as excessive, misdirected, or obtrusive artificial light that reduces our ability to see stars in the night sky, and that disrupts ecosystems, harms our general health, and wastes energy-production resources. Outdoor lights are the primary (and likely, only) source of light pollution. Companies are responding to calls to reduce […]
Important Questions to Ask Your LED Lighting Supplier
The recent growth in the popularity of LED lighting has attracted many new suppliers and distributors into the field. A majority of those LED lighting suppliers provide quality products and give consumers good service and value for their dollar. If you are considering a significant lighting project, for example, that more than just replacing a […]
How LED Lighting is Fueling the Rise of Energy Efficient Grow Lights
Greenhouses and other indoor plant growth facilities revolutionized crop production and expanded plant growth into geographic areas that previously did not have ideal environmental conditions for plant cultivation. The farming industry is on the cusp of a new expansion of indoor cultivation, and that expansion is being driven by energy efficient grow lights. Advances in […]
LED vs. CFL: A Comparison of Lighting Technologies
The dawn of the 2st century saw an explosive growth in the market for compact fluorescent lighting (CFL), as consumers and businesses alike rushed to switch from inefficient incandescent or fluorescent lighting to new CFLs that were perceived to be greener and more eco-friendly. Less than twenty years later, CFLs are rapidly falling out of […]
Parking Lot Lighting With LEDs
Proper illumination of parking lots and lead-in access roads is necessary for security and safety. Unfortunately, this comes at the significant expense of energy and maintenance cost using conventional lighting. In contrast, LED lighting provides the double advantage of lowered energy and maintenance costs. Additional benefits include truer color recognition, precision optical shaping, unsurpassed durability, […]
LED Natatorium Lighting
Natatoriums present some of the most unique lighting challenges of any indoor sports arenas. Water surfaces reflect and refract light, making it difficult for observers and referees to watch competitive swimming events. Pool chemicals and humidity can corrode metal surfaces on light fixtures in a relatively short amount of time. Lifeguards need good lighting to […]
Correctional Facility Lighting With LEDs
Correctional facilities place a high priority on safety, security, and operational efficiency. LED lighting systems can help meet or exceed performance standards in all three of these areas. Due to the instant-on and dimming capabilities of LED systems, new control methods are now practical and promise to allow even greater performance. LED lighting can improve […]
Outdoor Lighting Ideas & Inspiration
Our outdoor spaces are our chill spots during the warm season. Your outdoor space can be a beautiful garden, a simple reading spot with greeneries, or a small backyard swimming pool. Whether you want to enjoy a chilled summer afternoon and enjoy some bird watching or watch the starry night, your outdoor space is the […]
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