LED Exit Signs: Best Practice for Purchasing Emergecny Lighting

Vendors shall provide LED and LEC illuminated exit signs that meet the following specifications as well as local building and fire codes. Illuminated exit signs shall:

• Illuminated by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or light-emitting capacitors (LECs) only;
• Consume (have an input power demand of) no more than 5 watts of energy per sign (including twofaced signs and backup battery charger, excusive of ancillary lighting equipment).
• Meet National Fire Protection Safety Code;
• Meet all applicable standards, codes and other requirements;
• Offer at least a five-year warranty for defects in materials and manufacturing on the sign and lamps and offer at least a three-year warranty for defects in materials and manufacturing on the battery;
• Be capable of working on 240VAC and 277VAC circuits;
• Operate in normal (AC input) and emergency (DC input) battery-powered modes;
• Be equipped with an LED indicator light and test switch;
• Be protected against power surges and outages;
• Have an integrated rechargeable battery backup and charger; battery must provide at least 90 minutes of backup power during an emergency and must not be a lead-acid battery;
• Have universal knock-out “chevrons” pointing to left and right; and
• Have universal mounting apparatus, which allows for wall, ceiling or side mounting.

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RESPONSIBLE PURCHASING NETWORK MODEL SPECIFICATION FOR LED EXIT SIGN RETROFIT KITS

Vendor shall be able to provide red, green, and white LED exit sign retrofit kits that:

• Contain two LED lamp arrays (each with a candelabra base) as well as two candelabra-to-bayonet base adapters and two candelabra-to-intermediate base adapters; OR
• Contain two LED “lamp arrays” and a hardwire kit and mounting bracket; or
• Contain two LED “lamp arrays,” each with a two-pin base;
• Use no more than 3 watts of electricity;
• Work in exit signs with 6-inch stenciled letters or in edge-lit exit signs;
• Be considered universally compatible (i.e., able to work in a wide variety of signs rather than being designed to work in a specific exit sign model);
• Be protected against power surges and outages; be capable of working on 120VAC (Note: some jurisdictions may want LED retrofit kits that can work on 277VAC circuits and will need to specify
• them separately); and
• Offer at least a five-year warranty for defects in materials and manufacturing.

 

LED Luminaire Lifetime: Reliability, Maintenance and Testing Guide

Surprisingly to many, the true reliability and lifetime of light‐emitting diode (LED) lighting systems is currently unknown. Even worse, lumen maintenance values of LED devices are widely used as a proxy for the lifetime of an LED lighting system, which is misleading since light degradation or lumen maintenance is but one component of the reliability of a luminaire. For many manufacturers this approach cannot simply be ascribed to overly ambitious marketing efforts, but rather to dependence on anecdotal numbers in the absence of real data. In addition, we can impute simple ignorance in taking specifications at face value which may or may not live up to claims. It isn't just about the LED. Good LEDs can be incorporated into poorly engineered products and turn the Methuselah of lighting into the exponent of “live fast, die young.” The promise of LED lifetime is often presented in terms of hours and years but with little background data to support anything beyond vacuous promises. The statement of 100,000 hours of LED luminaire lifetime has given way to the realization that there is little consistency, very little published data, and few hard facts around so‐called luminaire lifetime numbers. The situation is better at the LED package level, where reputable manufacturers have thousands of hours of data under varying conditions.

But this is not enough. To manufacturers and specifiers in the solid‐state lighting (SSL) community, the dawning realization is that we need to work together towards understanding the issues surrounding true lifetime and reliability. We need to begin by cataloguing such failures and developing good models for underlying failure mechanisms. This process of understanding and explanation is very common in technological progress. Steam engines existed long before deep understanding of thermodynamic processes. With LEDs, we have a substantial head‐start on the underlying physics and many years of experience in both lighting and semi‐conductors as well as reliability of related products. There is no reason not to begin this journey and every reason to start. We will figure this out, find reliability methods and metrics, and learn the underlying root causes of failure. But without data, experiments and models, it is all conjecture. We need a program to drive to reliability metrics.

This guide is a set of recommendations for reporting and demonstrating reliability in terms of luminaire product lifetime. These recommendations have been developed by a working group under the U.S. Department of Energy Solid State Lighting program. This group is under the guidance of the SSL Quality Advocates oversight committee, a joint body of DOE and the Next Generation Lighting Industry Alliance (NGLIA). The reliability and lifetime working group is composed of members of the NGLIA as well as other experts in reliability, lighting, and LED technology. As such, this guide is not an accepted international standard. Rather, it is meant to provide standards bodies with recommendations for their work in supporting the needs of the SSL community. These standards organizations will ultimately determine the details of the methods to measure and report the reliability of SSL luminaire products.

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School Lighting - Aiding the Learning Process

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Modern learning and teaching is more personalised and diverse, resulting in pupils learning in a variety of spaces and in various ways. A dining area, for example, may be used for group discussion or individual reading; a circulation area, such as part of an atrium, could be used for informal tutoring or project work; and laptops could be used everywhere. It is important to find out in the early stages of briefing and design how spaces will be used by the school so that lighting flexibility is designed in.

In most types of buildings, users prefer rooms to have a day lit appearance during daytime hours. In schools, natural lighting during daylight hours should always be the main light source for reasons of quality of light and sustainability. Electric lighting and natural lighting should be complementary. Electric lighting will take over during the hours of darkness and should supplement natural lighting when it fades. To make sure that running costs and maintenance are reduced to minimum, light sources, luminaires and lighting controls need to be highly efficient, with a long life.

Pupils like spaces that are interesting and unique. They enjoy learning in them even though lighting conditions may not be ideal. There is a place for imaginative lighting environments in schools and this publication aims to encourage creativity, not create blandness or uniformity.

Health and safety

Learning and teaching rely upon good lighting. Although poor lighting is easily identified in use, it is often overlooked at the design stage. Our eyesight is resilient, so we may be unaware of the problems caused by poor lighting in our schools. Yet it can result in slower reading, poor posture, diminished concentration and long-term weakened vision.  Lighting in schools is required not only for general safety but also for visual tasks. The two main issues to guard against are glare and flicker.

Glare

Glare is a common problem in the classroom. It occurs when a bright image (which is not the object one is trying to see) is seen either directly or by reflected light. This can cause significant difficulty with visual tasks. Although pupils try to compensate for glare by turning their heads or squinting, glare causes eyestrain and headaches and can sometimes be disabling. It can also cause loss of concentration and reduced productivity.

Glare can be divided into two types:

• Discomfort glare is not necessarily detrimental to vision but it produces feelings of visual discomfort.

• Disability glare occurs when a bright light source is close to the line of vision and makes the task more difficult to see. This problem is controlled by assessing the lighting installation in terms of its glare rating and ensuring that it does not exceed the recommended maximum.

Glare can be minimised by:

• The correct choice, orientation and positioning of the room furniture

• The use of internal or external blinds, which can reduce problems caused by excessive sunlight or daylight

• The use of louvers on fluorescent luminaires and/or the use of indirect lighting solutions, which will help reduce direct vision of the light source and therefore the instance of glare

• Correct choice of computer screen with anti-glare filters if necessary, together with orientation to avoid sunlight and daylight reflection

• Careful design of the luminance of the whiteboard relative both to sunlight and daylight glare and glare from luminaires.

Flicker

Flicker can cause discomfort or annoyance to some people. It can also produce stroboscopic effects with moving objects, which can be dangerous. For example, rotating machinery in a workshop can appear to be stationary. Epilepsy can be triggered by low frequency flashes of light, which can occur with some compact fluorescent lamps at ignition, or with discharge lamps towards the end of their life. Problems relating to balance, and some brain disorders, can also be exacerbated. All these can be avoided by using high frequency control gear.

Disability issues

Good quality lighting is important to help pupils learn, especially those with special educational needs (SEN) and/or any disability. Natural lighting with additional artificial light should be used where necessary, avoiding glare and revealing good visual contrast and colour rendering. Light levels should be adequate on the working plane and for people to clearly see the teacher’s face, the whiteboard and computers without creating reflections, shadows and harsh contrasts. For an even better effect, light sources should not be visible, flicker should be avoided and up-lighters should be used.

Hearing impaired people need to be able to see lip movements clearly, so the correct lighting level and direction are crucial. For example, if light is directed too much in a downward direction, it will produce harsh shadows, which will make lip reading difficult. The design of specialist accommodation for pupils with SEN and/or any disability is beyond the scope of this document and specialist advice should be sought. However, there are relevant design issues that should be considered for all schools:

• The colour rendering of the light source and the extent of contrast are particularly important. Some visual impairment involves a degree of colour blindness and it is important that contrast of tone as well as colour should be produced on the objects illuminated.

• Careful use of colour can help pupils recognise and identify objects. For instance, using a darker colour for a door frame (contrasting with door leaf and wall) will help in locating the door. A handle that clearly contrasts with the surface of the door and is non-reflective will also make it easier to distinguish.

• Students with visual impairment often require higher than normal levels of illuminance. It is not necessary to install this as a feature of the primary lighting system but provision should be available for supplementary task lighting.

Energy efficiency

The energy efficiency of artificial lighting depends on:

• The penetration of natural lighting indoors – if there is good daylight distribution in the classroom and good daylight levels, artificial lighting may not be required

• The luminaire efficiency and its electrical components, lamps and control gear

• The successful specification of the lighting controls, eg, their usability and response to changing conditions

• The operation, cleaning and maintenance regime.

Creating a Productive and Responsible Workplace

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Whether tenants or building owners, today’s leading companies are no longer content with “facilities as usual.” Instead, the office environment is seen as a strategic asset, a flexible platform for meeting rapidly changing workflows and competitive needs. It’s a tool for boosting collaboration and communication. To make today’s office facilities as responsive, productive and attractive as possible, it’s important to adapt the spaces to the occupants’ ever-changing demands. In creating an office environment that fills those needs, you create higher value and return. New lighting technologies are helping to reshape the office environment. More efficient, more adaptable, and more sustainable lighting solutions support the varied settings for working and meeting. Understanding what moves a company’s bottom line is essential to selecting your office lighting systems.

To be a leader in today’s competitive environment, property owners and facility executives need to understand the importance of ambiance, well-being, and sustainability. Lighting can support these three key factors to help address the critical issues of productivity, corporate image, and bottom-line profitability— helping you to transform your facility in meaningful and innovative ways.

Today’s business workplace must be responsive, productive, sustainable, and profitable. New choices in lighting design can help drive solutions to the issues facing facility executives.

 • Productivity: Enhance occupant motivation and increase productivity

• Brand Image: Impress visitors and attract tenants and customers

• Profitability: Control facility operational costs and overhead well-being productivity ambiance brand image profitability sustainability

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Choosing the right office lighting solutions can help you achieve the desired mix of ambiance, well-being and sustainability.

Ambiance: Welcoming, inviting facilities can motivate occupants and engage visitors. Effective, well-illuminated environments can positively impact employee productivity and support your brand and mission.

Well-being: Comfortable, adaptable spaces have a direct impact on occupant well-being. The physical and emotional effects of smart office lighting can help people feel and perform better.

Sustainability: Employing systems that reduce a facility’s environmental impact builds a positive image and saves dollars on energy use and maintenance. Our lighting products offer some of the highest efficiencies and longest useful life spans of any available today. Philips is committed to innovative solutions for reducing a facility’s environmental ‘footprint’ and cutting energy use—while remaining cost-effective.

Lighting the Path to Productivity

New office environments are emerging to address today’s rapidly changing work styles and business approaches. For facility executives, this means facing critical social issues and advanced technologies—while remaining focused on maximizing building performance. Occupants and tenants spend a large portion of their days in the office, and are demanding better working environments that can spur innovation and boost productivity.

Lighting can make a space desirable not only by enhancing the visual environment, but by making a space more flexible. Lighting systems should adapt to occupant needs for team space, open floor plans and offices. With shorter lease terms, tenants may change, but the lighting system doesn’t have to. Philips lighting solutions can help transform ordinary buildings into high-performance facilities.

Creating a Positive Image

Facilities speak to who you are—and where you’re going. More than ever, business owners view their workplace as a competitive tool not only for boosting efficiency but also for recruiting new talent and winning new business. So in today’s competitive marketplace, first impressions count. Facility executives can set the tone with efficient general lighting, and set themselves apart with architectural and accent lighting, presenting the corporate brand image of a true leader.

Managing Costs and Increasing Profitability

In today’s economy, commercial facilities need to do everything they can to reduce overhead. Facility executives face spiralling occupancy costs on the one hand, and directives to boost margins on the other. Choosing the right combination of components and designing a system properly cuts operational expenses and enhances the overall contribution occupants make to an organization’s bottom line. Simplification—along with energy-efficient lighting solutions—means savings.

Replacing outdated lighting systems with more efficient, environmentally friendly solutions will reduce energy consumption and maintenance requirements. Working with fewer lamp types and standardizing wattages can reduce complexity, making maintenance more manageable and less costly. Philips has a strong commitment to sustainability, continuously finding innovative ways to deliver more environmentally sound and energy-efficient choices. We are convinced that those facilities that combine the principles of economic growth and environmental stewardship will be the winners in the future. To help you realize your potential savings, our team of lighting experts can perform a Lighting Audit to help you maximize your profits without sacrificing the occupant’s experience.

Hospitality Lighting - Creating Exeperiences and Reducing Costs

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From the seasoned business traveller to families on vacation, today’s hotel guests are well-versed in the range of lodging options available in the marketplace. Before they arrive for check-in, they check out amenities and services, and comparison shop for lodging in virtually any destination. Whether working away from home or planning an exotic getaway, guests seek properties that measure up to cultivated lifestyle expectations.

Hospitality is About Experiences

Hospitality is all about creating memorable travel experiences, with top-tier services and surroundings that win guest loyalty. Good lighting is a key component in creating those surroundings. From the welcoming atmosphere of a lobby to flexible guest room lighting to the subdued glow of an intimate restaurant, the right light creates a backdrop for a pleasant stay. Yet poor lighting can be a common guest complaint. To keep them coming back, it’s crucial to get lighting right the first time—and make it easy to maintain. For more than 100 years Philips has been providing products uniquely suited to improving the hospitality environment—from televisions to energy efficient lighting solutions. Let our expertise in hospitality help you create spaces that delight.

To be a leader in today’s competitive marketplace, hoteliers need to focus on the importance of ambiance, well-being and sustainability to address the critical issues of the guest experience, the brand and to meet your financial goals. Lighting can support these three key factors and help you transform your property in meaningful and innovative ways.

Ambiance: Welcoming and inviting spaces can engage guests in a variety of activities. The use of lighting solutions to enrich their surroundings can elevate guests’ moods and set the scene for a memorable hotel stay.

Well-Being: Comfortable, well-balanced spaces support the physical and emotional comfort of your guests. Efficient, well-balanced lighting systems can improve the guest experience and boost your bottom line.

Sustainability: Employing systems that reduce a property’s environmental impact builds a positive image, enhances guest relations, and saves dollars on energy use and maintenance. Today’s guests are conscious of the environment and care about how you operate your property—they want to know who you are as much as what you have to offer. Our lighting products offer some of the highest efficiencies and longest life of any available today. Philips is committed to innovative solutions for reducing a hotel’s environmental “footprint” and reducing energy use—while remaining cost-effective.

Choosing the right lighting solution can help you achieve the desired mix of ambiance, well-being and sustainability.

Ensure that each guest’s first impression is a positive one. Lighting serves as the backdrop for creating that memorable initial experience. It sets the scene for a successful hotel stay, and helps reinforce the intent of varied settings. Outdoors, architectural lighting can turn the hotel into a prominent landmark. Inside, the use of accent, or focal lighting can highlight signature elements, creating an inviting atmosphere and distinguishing your property from the competition. Scene-setting lighting design and colourful accents in the lobby communicate “you are welcome” to arriving guests. At the reception desk, bright light provides confidence and orientation. In guest rooms, flexible lighting scenes offer the option of bright, task light—or diffused, restful light—to provide your guests with an experience that meets their individual needs.

Making guests feel comfortable starts by allowing them to move freely within a visually appealing environment. Well-lit surroundings can improve comfort and confidence levels. At every turn, guests should feel confident and find opportunities to make a space their own. Flexible lighting enables guests and staff to adjust each environment to suit varied tasks. In offices and conference rooms, efficient, flexible lighting can adjust to varying working conditions to boost concentration and motivation; in the guest room, energizing and relaxing light can help the body adjust and increase comfort levels. In bathrooms, bright light revitalizes while presenting a hygienic impression.

Branding and Company Responsibility

As today’s hospitality climate continues to change with a focus on environmentally responsible initiatives, choosing sustainable lighting solutions for your properties can build brand loyalty among guests. Consumers increasingly make purchase decisions based on an organization’s environmental stewardship. Investing in Philips energy-efficient lamps, ballasts and systems that reduce your property’s environmental impact can pay dividends worth even more than the energy savings. Such investment can earn respect from customers and their willingness to become repeat guests.

Reducing Operating Costs

Because hotels operate 24-7, even small gains in efficiency can lead to significant savings. Replacing outdated lighting systems with more efficient, environmentally friendly solutions will reduce energy consumption and disposal costs. Selecting lighting components that perform better over time also means fewer lamp replacements and disruptions to hotel operations. Working with fewer lamp types and standardizing wattages can reduce complexity, making maintenance more manageable and less costly.

Reducing operating costs through the installation of energy efficient solutions can be measured using financial metrics like revenue per available room (RevPAR) or average daily room rate (ADR).

As noted by Energy Star, “On average, America’s 47,000 hotels spend $2,196 per available room each year on energy. This represents about 6 percent of all operating costs. Through a strategic approach to energy efficiency, a 10 percent reduction in energy consumption would have the same financial effect as increasing the average daily room rate (ADR) by $0.62 in limited-service hotels and by $1.35 in full-service hotels.”1

Hospitality T.C.O.: The Total Cost of (Lighting) Ownership

Understanding how various lighting choices impact the bottom line is essential. These elements will affect a property’s payback, cash outlays and return on investment. Taken together, it’s the total cost of ownership, or T.C.O.

Four factors drive the total cost of lighting ownership:

LED Streetlighting - Reduced Maintenance, Service, Energy and Disposal Costs

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Street Light Costs

Converting HPS, MH, mercury vapor, or incandescent street lights to LEDs incurs a capital cost, but this can be recouped over the lifetime of the lights. LEDs have an estimated lifetime five times longer than conventional HPS or MH lamps, and energy savings of 35% or more. These efficiencies mean that payback periods for LED street lights can currently be as low as 4.4 years (Ann Arbor, no date). Because the entire street luminaire (see below), not just the lamp, is typically replaced when converting conventional street lights to LED street lights, jurisdictions may reduce installation time and avoid warranty issues. More expensive LED street lighting systems include dimmers or motion sensors, but can dramatically decrease costs by reducing energy consumption and maintenance costs even further.

LED Exit Signs and Reducing Total Cost of Ownership

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Cost

Although LED's typically have a much higher purchase price, they are far more energy-efficient and longer lasting than their conventional counterparts which leads to lower total costs when factoring in electricity savings and reduced maintenance and disposal costs.

Exit Sign Costs

Currently, LED’s are far more cost efficient than incandescent and fluorescents. They are available in the a variety of styles (including stencil, matrix and edge-lit models) and price levels. In the short term, it may be cheaper to continue using incandescent bulbs in existing incandescent-lit exit signs. However, it is more cost-effective to replace existing incandescent and fluorescent-lit exit signs with new LED exit signs or to upgrade them using an LED retrofit kit.

Energy and Global Warming

Incandescent exit signs typically contain two 15- or 20-watt bulbs that draw 30-40 watts in total, whereas LED exit signs consume as little as less than one watt and no more than 10 watts. Since exit signs are lit all year around, 24 hours per day, each LED exit sign retrofit can save about 300kwh, preventing the release of half a ton of CO2 annually. Replacing incandescent-lit exit signs with new LED signs or retrofitting existing signs to use LED lamps is one of the easiest and most cost effective energy e3fficiency retrofits available to public and commercial facilities. Fluorescent lamps are another common bulb used in exit lighting, and although more efficient than its incandescent counterpart, they still use up to 10 times more energy than LED exit signs.

Hazardous Substances, Health and Safety

Incandescent signs, which contain lamps that typically have a rated life of 500 to 5000 hours, are likely to become partially or fully unlit more often than LED exit signs, creating safety hazards for building occupants during emergencies, and risking fines by fire marshals. Frequent bulb changing poses occupational risks for workers who must climb ladders to remove fragile glass bulbs that may contain lead solder in their bases. Lead is a known neurotoxin and causes learning and developmental disabilities. Fluorescent lamps used to light exit signs generally have a rated life of 5000 to 10000 hours, which is longer than most incandescent lamps but still far shorter than LED’s, which can last 25 years or more. Replacing fluorescent lamps can expose workers and occupants to mercury, a persistent and bio-accumulative toxic chemical known to cause damage to the brain, nervous system and heart of humans and animals. Mercury can be released during lamp manufacture, storage, transportation, installation, recycling or disposal.

End of Life Management

A typical incandescent exit sign bulb lasts just 500-5000 hours (about 1 – 6 months) and must be replaced about twice per year. In comparison, red and green LED exit sign lamps typically have a rated life of 50,000 to 200,000 hours (6 – 25 years, and some with a 25 year warranty). At the very minimum, 10 incandescent bulbs are disposed of for every one LED required to light the same exit sign.

LED Exit Signs and Reducing Total Cost of Ownership

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LED Lights Make City Structures Seem Safer to Citizens

Citizens in Raleigh, N.C. express feeling safer in municipal structures that have switched to LED lighting, according to a new survey conducted by Mindwave Research. With the results
of this survey, the "LED City" initiative in Raleigh has proven to have benefits beyond energy efficiency.

The survey asked 200 people about their perceptions of safety and other aspects of a municipal garage in Raleigh. Both men and women expressed feeling significantly safer after the installation of LED fixtures: the number of respondents who rated the garage as "very safe" increased by 76% after the LED fixtures were installed. "LED technology provides a clear benefit to municipal infrastructure, as well as to the citizens it serves," said Charles Meeker, mayor of Raleigh, "This survey shows that LEDs can do more than improve light quality. In addition to the proven environmental and energy efficiency benefits the city has already documented, the survey shows that LEDs' bright white light can help improve public feelings of safety in city spaces." The survey also measured respondents' ratings of lighting quality and cleanliness in the municipal garage. After the installation of LED lighting, 86% of respondents rated the lighting quality of the garage as "excellent" -- a 258% increase over pre-installation responses. Seventy-six percent of respondents rated the cleanliness of the parking facility as "excellent" after LED installation versus 58% before the LEDs were installed.

In the coming year, Raleigh plans to continue its "LED City" initiative by creating a "living laboratory" of LED light use throughout the city, including pedestrian and walkway lighting. The purpose of the initiative is to evaluate energy-efficient infrastructures. The announcement of the initiative was hailed by Kateri Callahan, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) as "a milestone toward large-scale adoption of clean, energy-efficient technologies." Callahan stated, "Raleigh's progressive commitment to becoming the first 'LED City' will no doubt serve as a model for other cities seeking to improve energy consumption and reduce negative impacts on the environment."

New generation LED lights offer significant safety advantages to parking lots, buildings, and other city infrastructure ... they're cleaner, greener, and last for over a decade, so they produce less landfill and contain none of the mercury found in fluorescent lighting.

Now Stocking 'Brick in the Wall' - Innovative and Award Winning Lighting Producer

BRICK IN THE WALL originate from the world of decoration where the founder Frank Verschuere has noticed the demand for seamless integrated light. One of the first luminaires they experimented was the "Normall", a plaster fitting with a minimalistic design. The possibility to paint the luminaires in the same color as the wall was an added value for his company of decoration. Due to the great success and acceptance of these fittings by quite some architects , Frank Verschuere decided in 2008 to join several Trade Shows as "Hospitality & Design Show"(Las Vegas 2008),"Nordic Building & Construction" (Stockholm 2008). A special range of plaster fittings with a Moorish architecture, were designed for the "index" Trade Show in December 2008 in Dubai.

In 2008, Brick in the wall started collaborating with the lighting design company CEE-ID to develop a complete new collection called "Spring 2009". The basic idea of this collection is to create unexpected and inspiring plaster fittings with light and shape as a true amalgam with the architecture. The first introduction took place at A@work in Kortrijk (Belgium). In May 2009, Brick in the wall moved to a new and larger facility in Waregem (Belgium) close to the E17 highway. Today, Brick in the wall is an international lighting company that offers a complete range of residential, commercial and even custom-made lighting products that can be seamlessly integrated in any office, hotel, or store. Innovative lighting designed to fit and enhance any environment, ranging from architecture all the way to residential lighting.

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Emergency Lighting - Ensuring You, Your Family and Business Are Safe, While Ensuring Compliance with Legislation

Emergency Lighting - Safeguarding Your Family and Your Business

The recent earthquakes experienced in Christchurch has highlighted the need to be prepared ... a lesson that all of us in Canterbury have learnt. It is essential that we safeguard our homes, buildings, businesses and guests in case of such events. Additionally there are some strict legislative requirements for emergency lighting and their testing in respect to public buildings and business establishments.  We are currently promoting the industry leading Clevertronics range of Emergency Lighting products. In combination with Safescape, we are offering assistance with Emergency Lighting design.

 

Featured Products

StarLED - Redefining Emergency Lighting

With a lifetime LED warranty and three year warranty on the entire fitting, the StarLED range of emergency lighting is architectural designed for todays built environments.  They deliver a low cost, low maintenance, high performance emergency lighting solution. Why use the old technology Quartz Halogen fittings when the StarLED delivers better performance . The StarLED M2 comes with one led luminaire offering exceptional photometric performance with an AS2293 classification of D20/D20. The StarLED Pro offers an unrivalled D40/D40; an amazing 60% increase in emergency lighting coverage compared with existing premium emergency lights, reducing the number required to meet the emergency lighting standards. Additionally, the new batteries offer extended battery life, extending service intervals to 5 years or more. Download  the StarLED M2 brochure or the StarLED Pro brochure.

Cleverfit Exit

As one of the favourite products for engineers and specifiers alike, the Cleverfit range of Exit signs which boast not only premium features, but premium looks as well. Quick installation and reliable performance is only the beginning.  Clevertronics make installation even easier by providing sing or double-sided, wall or ceiling and directional signage options complete in every box. After installation, compliance testing has never been easier with Clever Test and Zoneworks computerised options available across the range. Why waste your valuable time scheduling, performing and then recording emergency lighting discharge tests when the emergency lights can do it themselves? And our state-of-the-art Cold Cathode Cleverfit pay’s for itself through energy and maintenance savings in less than three years!  Click the version you want to download the brochure: Cold Cathode; LED

 

One Box Solution

Simplifying emergency lighting specification down to a single code, the 'one-box solution' for exit lighting provides the 'EXIT' and 'PICTOGRAPH' diffuser inserts for all possible diffuser combinations, as well as universal mounting brackets for wall or ceiling installation. Never get caught out again with an exit sign that points the wrong way or has the wrong fittings - with the 'one-box solution'. you have the perfect exit sign for every application

Clevertronics Self Test

The "ST" Clever-test range of Exit and Emergency lighting is designed to provide specifiers, building owners and occupiers, with a cost effective and thorough means of testing Emergency and Exit luminaires individually and automatically. Click here to download brochure. Clever-test emergency luminaires are programmed to perform 90 minute discharge tests at 6 month intervals. This allows maintenance personnel to schedule their visits, with the confidence that all luminaires have completed their test and only a quick visual inspection of the Status Indicator is required to determine pass or fail. Additional features and benefits of Clever-test emergency luminaires include:

• All faulty units identified immediately following completion of test
• No data cable or network PC required
• Eliminate the extra costs of installing a computerised testing system
• Drastically reduce the on-going costs of manual testing
• Comply with all mandatory testing and reporting criteria

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