Facility Management

Posted on the: January 11, 2019

How Lighting Boosts Productivity: 4 Things Designers Should Know

The best design is a marriage between form and function that pleases every stakeholder and looks beautiful at the same time. Different constituents often have goals that diverge at best or compete at worst and satisfying everyone can be harder than spotting a unicorn in the wild. But, achieving this[...]

Posted on the: January 10, 2019

CASE STUDY: Amerlux Puts Marketing Agency in the Best Light

Marketing is all about helping customers see a product or company in the best light possible. Creative Marketing Alliance (CMA), a full-service marketing and association management firm, took that thought literally, upgrading the exterior lighting at its New Jersey headquarters with Amerlux LEDs.[...]

Posted on the: September 27, 2018

CRI vs. TM-30: What Do These Color Quality Measures Mean?

If you’ve looked at lighting recently, you may have seen something like “CRI: 83” or “Rf 94”among the alphabet soup of the lighting specs. Another product advertised its great color rendering with two scores and a round graph. What does it all mean? How a light renders colors is very[...]

Posted on the: September 20, 2018

4 Ways to Save with LED Lighting

Today’s LEDs set the standard for light comfort, color quality and controllability. Even better, they cost a lot less than you might think and they can deliver huge savings to your bottom line. Here are four ways LED lighting will lower your operating costs: 1. Energy Cost Savings Electricity is[...]

Posted on the: September 20, 2018

The Key to Boosting Purchases in Supermarkets

When shoppers enter your supermarket, they are probably welcomed with the sights of your floral and fresh produce sections and the appetizing smells of your bakery. The fresh foods beckon to customers and if the foods look fresh, they will move quickly. Color is a major factor in buying decisions.[...]

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 11, 2018

How to protect birds, enjoy the night sky and save $3 billion with LEDs

Picture this: two pillars of light stretching from the ground up to the heavens, penetrating the nighttime darkness. It’s the annual “Tribute in Light” held in New York City every September 11. It’s a stirring sight and a beautiful memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attacks and the unbreakable[...]

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 4, 2018

Amerlux Extends Line To Design-Build Firms

Made-to-Measure Lighting Maker Adds ‘Value’ With Off-The-Shelf Products Read about Amerlux’s “Value Line” below or download the PDF here Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today it will expand its growing portfolio of products to fast-track to market at a lower cost, specifically catering to the needs of design-build[...]