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Friday, January 08, 2010

Interior Lighting Designers & Design

How does this term apply to the industrial world?

Factories, warehouses, and offices spaces all require interior lighting design. All three environments should have their commercial grade lighting systems planned prior to the purchase of any equipment. Sometimes this is for energy savings only, but in other area, interior lighting design is a key component to worker efficiency and is essential to maintaining a safe work environment.

Why would an industrial firm need to think about office lighting?

Virtually every facility, no matter how devoted to manufacturing or distribution it may be, has office space of some type. Management and administration requires this separate space to oversee production and to make mission critical decisions about the company.

Is interior lighting design different in the office of a factory or a warehouse than it is in say, a financial firm or marketing company?

Not really. Interior commercial lighting design in these offices follows the same principles as it does in service-oriented companies in the general corporate world at large. Administrative workers need comfortable task lighting over their desks and cubes. Foyers need a certain amount of ambient lighting to look professional to visitors and clients.

Is there a way to do this cheaply? We don’t have that many offices in our facility.

Break areas and bathrooms can be lit with general commercial fluorescent lights that can be turned on and off at will. Meeting rooms and executive office suites can be configured with lighting controls that can save electricity by dimming the lights and also generate different emotional states for different kinds of meetings by using different combinations of lights.

Why should factories spend extra money on interior lighting design when all they do is manufacture products

They need it because the success of manufacturing depends on precision, time-to-market, and safe working conditions. All three of these things are directly influenced by the quality of light in the building. Without adequate industrial task lighting, assembly line workers cannot see and consequently work at a noticeably slower pace. Morale tends to be rather negative too when people spend long hours at a time in dark areas.

Why do you say lighting is important to safety?

Many times accidents happen around machines that could have been avoided if the lighting had been higher in the area. They can also occur when the lights are improperly mounted and too much light hits the workers’ eyes and partially blinds them. This is why you need a photometric lighting plan that will show exactly how many fixtures company needs, where they need to go, and how they need to be mounted in order to minimize reflective glare and dispel shadows in dangerous and mission-critical labor areas.

What will an industrial interior lighting plan do for my warehouse that general high bay lighting doesn’t already do?

General high bay and low bay lights are standard in almost every warehouse lighting design, so by no means do we suggest you abandon this. Consider, however, how much you spend on maintaining these lights and how much it costs to power them each month. It is quite possible that you will discover that newer, more energy efficient lights engineered with longer lamp life could save money on both power and maintenance cycles.

Isn’t that going to be expensive when it comes to purchase costs?

Not as much as you may think. Only busy work and transit areas need special interior lighting design in order to do special functions and safeguard human life. Many storage areas, untraveled areas, and hallways can be lit with cheaper fixtures and far less electricity without jeopardizing health or corporate revenues.

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