Commercial Office

Posted on the: September 13, 2018

9 Ways You’ll Look Like a Hero by Switching to LED Lights

As a facility manager, you are tasked with ensuring the safety, comfort, productivity, sustainability, beauty and maintenance of your facility—all while keeping costs down. That’s a pretty tall order. What if you could accomplish all that and more by making one simple change? Change your lighting and you can. LED[...]

Posted on the: September 13, 2018

How to Sell Your Lighting Upgrade to Your Boss

You already understand how your organization would benefit from the huge long-term benefits and savings that come from upgrading your facility’s lighting to high-performance LEDs. But those long-term benefits can seem far away to your CFO when he or she sees the upfront cost of such an upgrade. Large expenses[...]

Posted on the: September 6, 2018

Lighting: The Secret Weapon for Optimizing A Building’s Performance

Winston Churchill famously said, “We shape our buildings and afterward our buildings shape us.” Commenting on the bomb-damaged House of Commons in 1943, his point is profound: We design buildings, and the constraints of the design will shape the people who use the building and the work they do. Few[...]

Posted on the: September 2, 2018

Smart Sites: The Next Wave in Facility Management

Amerlux Brings Smart City Technology to Your Site “Smart city” is a loose term for a city or community that uses sensor data to deliver a responsive infrastructure. In a smart city, sensors can monitor everything from energy usage to traffic flow to occupancy. Using wireless connectivity, cities can control[...]

Posted on the: August 30, 2018

More Speed, Less Expense

Amerlux Provides ‘Value’ for Design-Build Firms Read about Amerlux’s “Value Line” below or download the PDF here When Amerlux opened its doors in 1984, the renowned design-and-manufacture lighting company soon became the market leader for supermarket LED lighting. And then, the company—built on made-to-measure products—created more innovative solutions for boutique[...]

Posted on the: August 13, 2018

Bright Lights, Beautiful City

Amerlux’s game-changing Avista light engine helps city of Portland decrease energy consumption 60%, while preserving vintage streetlamps Project Summary End User: The City of Portland/Bureau of Transportation Project Scope: Upgrade of 6,100 century-old high pressure sodium-lit streetlights in Portland, Ore., to Amerlux’s ‘Avista’ LED light engine in 2017 Agency Reps: Hy-Light Group,[...]

Posted on the: August 10, 2018

Quick-Line: Linear Pendant Lighting Reinvented

Read the guide below or download the full guide PDF here High Quality. Low Cost. Quick Delivery. In the past, you had to choose two out of the three. So, with every project, you had to balance time, speed and quality when you selected building materials. High-quality items are[...]

Posted on the: August 6, 2018

CASE STUDY: Amerlux Enlightens Dynamic Office Space for NYC Hedge Fund

After occupying a full floor of the iconic General Motors Building for many years, a Manhattan financial firm needed a makeover. They wanted their space to foster greater collaboration among employees and symbolize its connection to the city, a goal that was achieved with cutting edge technology. Continue reading[...]

Posted on the: July 30, 2018

How You Can Protect Against Building Fires with LEDs

In 1992, a devastating fire ravaged Windsor Castle in the UK, burning through 115 rooms. It took 39 fire trucks and 225 firefighters more than 15 hours to quench the fire. Dating back to the 11th century, Windsor Castle is one of the British monarch’s official residences and the largest[...]

Posted on the: July 13, 2018

How to Slash Energy Bills, Crime with LED Streetlights

Old, ineffective lighting is expensive. It guzzles down energy like a pig, racking up power bills in the thousands or millions of dollars, while casting inferior quality light on your streets and sidewalks. There’s a solution to this problem—a solution that the cities of Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon have[...]