Improved Appearance
A lighting retrofit is not only economical and better for our environment, it will also approve the appearance of the workplace. It will be brighter and livlier with no yellow, dim, overcast lighting areas.
A footcandle is defined as: A unit of measure of the intensity of light falling on a surface, equal to one lumen per square foot and originally defined with reference to a standardized candle burning at one foot from a given surface.
By upgrading your lighting system, you will increase the number of footcandles in your office or warehouse and improve the color rendering index (CRI).
Increase in Productivity
Studies have shown that when there are increases in the quality of working conditions, there is an increase in employee production and overall company morale.
This is known as the ”Hawthorne Effect” and although some argue against it, it is common business knowledge that if you treat your employees and clients well, they will return the favor.
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Economy
Some people may say this is the reason they choose not to retrofit now but the cost of waiting sometimes outweighs the cost of the actual retrofit. Can you imagine giving 50% more to the electric company than you really have to?
Environment
The procedure of retrofitting or replacing one lighting system with an energy-efficient lighting technology, is one of the easiest, least expensive and least destructive means of creating more energy for future use by saving it, rather than drilling newer and expensive power plants.
The idea is to lower demand through efficiency rather than to increase supply by spending more resources.
Retrofit lights trim down the consumption of electricity which, in turn, reduces demand.
While newer technologies add increased reliability and longevity to the system, lighting issues can be easily overcome with the help of specific design considerations.
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