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8 SIGNS YOU’RE READY TO INVEST IN LED LIGHTING You will likely find ample justification to support the business case for your organization’s transition to LED lighting. In most cases, that justification will be derived from your organization’s experience with its current legacy lighting system. That experience will provide at least eight signs that you are ready for LED lighting. You have lost control over your utility costs. Traditional metal halide or high pressure sodium light fixtures might have been state-of-the-art when they were installed, but they have never been particularly efficient. Much of the power they consume is dissipated as excess heat. As electricity costs have gone up, your organization has spent more and more money that is wasted by these traditional fixtures. More efficient LED lighting will reverse this pattern. Your lighting maintenance team is overworked. Metal halide or high-pressure sodium bulbs need to be replaced, on average, every two years. If the entire lighting system fails, your maintenance team can take an hour or two to bring it back to full power. Broken or damaged fixtures can shut down a complete bank of lighting, interrupting your company’s operations. These problems can all be reduced or eliminated with LED lighting systems. Your company has adopted environmental initiatives. LED lighting places lower loads on electrical power generation plants, thus reducing carbon emissions. LED lamps themselves contain no hazardous materials that might contaminate landfills when they are eventually replaced and discarded. Employee productivity is down. Studies have revealed a close connection between adequate lighting and employee productivity. LED lighting pushes the advantage of good lighting even further. Certain wavelengths of light can improve mood and increase productivity. LED’s can be adjusted to generate light in these wavelength, leading to potential employee productivity improvements. Workplace mishaps are increasing. Many workplace accidents are the result of poor visibility and lighting systems that create shadows and dark spots. Employees experience fatigue and eyestrain in poorly-lit environments, which contributes to more accidents in those environments. LED lighting can be configured to eliminate those dark spots and to generate uniform illumination across an entire workspace. Moreover, LED lighting can be tuned to better replicate natural sunlight, giving employees the best possible lighting to avoid mishaps. Your business is expanding. If you are building new facilities, it makes little sense to install old technology in those facilities. LED designers and engineers can develop a custom LED lighting solution for new construction that optimizes the lighting environment with fixtures and systems that give facilities managers unprecedented control over illumination. Your operations are conducted under extreme conditions. Large temperature swings, different forms of precipitation, heavy machinery, and round-the-clock movement can all put strains on a lighting system. Next-generation LED lighting is engineered to withstand these strains and to continue in full operation regardless of the extremes. You need to power up lighting systems quickly. Traditional lighting can take up to 30 minutes before coming to full illumination. LED lighting eliminates that lag and comes to full illumination almost immediately after being powered up. Source: specgradeled