Over the past decade, most commercial property owners have continued to see an increase in their overall energy bills. Due to the expectation of continued increases in energy costs, upgrading to a sustainable lighting system could be a great option as it will provide a business owner or commercial property owner with a variety of benefits.
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Most accessibility building concerns focus on giving people easy access to and through buildings. This can include ramps next to stairs, more breaks in parking lot curbs, and easy-access elevators. But there’s more to it, and changing the lighting plays a huge part in how accessible your university feels.
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Providing adequate parking is extremely important for any retail store, office building, or other commercial property. When you have a parking lot, it is also very important that it is properly illuminated. There are several tips that you should follow to ensure you provide visitors or tenants with proper lighting in the parking lot.
Adequate Lighting
The first step that you should follow when trying to provide lights to a parking lot is to ensure that there is adequate lighting. Having adequate lighting in a parking lot is important as it will make is much safer.
Not only does it need to have adequate light, but it needs to be evenly distributed throughout the lot. Not having evenly distributed light can make it very hard to see and drive, which could lead to accidents. Ideally, you should have automated lights that will turn on once it starts getting dark.  Having lighting that is evenly distributed will also make any onsite security cameras much more effective at picking up images in the lot.
Energy Efficiency
When you are looking to improve the lighting in your parking lot, you should also focus on a lighting solution that is energy efficient. Parking lot lights are frequently illuminated up to 13 hours per day. Because of this, it is very easy to quickly burn through standard light bulbs and run up expensive utility bills. A more affordable and environmentally friendly option would be to invest in LED bulbs that can cut your energy usage in half.
General lighting provides the backdrop for other layers of lighting. Here are some of the recommendations for good general lighting for all large retail stores.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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