LED Lighting
Procuring LED lighting has been up until now a somewhat rocky road.
Some of the pitfalls include
- Navigating the glut of poor quality Chinese imports supplied by entrepreneurial lighting start-ups who do not have the necessary experience to qualify the performance of their product
- Suppliers with no photometric data for lighting design and independently sourced lux levels for building regulation calculations
- Finding a lamp with the appropriate warmer colour temperature and colour rendering abilities that has been tested independently from the same LED in pure white light variant
- Finding a supplier with a strong track record in the industry that is likely to stay in business throughout the design life of the LED
The good news is that if you get the above points right, you can get a light source that can:-
- drastically reduce your maintenance costs with lifespans of up to 50,000 hours (relamping interval of 6-7 years at 24 hours per day usage)
- will provide savings of 50-80% on the energy used by Halogen lamps and upto 50% on flurorescent lamps
- significantly reduce the lighting heat load on air conditioning systems
William Martin Energy has conducted extensive research to establish who the trusted suppliers and technologies are in this industry and are able to provide advice on the most appropriate products to use and the magnitude of financial gain generated.
