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Carbon Reduction Certificate for Signet Signs
Presentation to Mike Rawlings MD of Signet Signs with their Carbon Reduction Certificate. The recent fitting of LED lighting Panels in their Factory and Offices has saved the company over 5 tonnes of Carbon annually and qualifies for their Scoping 2 Carbon assessment....
Lighting – Occupation Sensors
Lighting – Occupation Sensors Switching lights off is the best way to reduce your Carbon Footprint and cut energy bills. Invariably Warehouses are not fully occupied all the time and areas within the warehouse will often be unoccupied. This is especially true...
Lumens Per Watt – Important – Why?
Why do we buy lights based on Price and Watts? Mainly because electrical loads are measured in Watts and your electrician will need to ensure that the circuitry is sufficient for the electrical load. When it comes to LED lighting efficiency the practical comparison is...
BRI Childrens Hospital Cycle Challenge
How did I get involved in Above & Beyond? It was a friend of mine Simon Laws who said: “Paul come along to a wine and drinks party, its for a cycle challenge from Bristol to Paris” “Cycle Challenge?” I replied “Yeah, I did it last year, it was brilliant." Simon...
Carbon Reduction Lighting
Carbon Reduction Lighting How can carbon reduction lighting help your Business or Facility? Lighting is often one of the biggest loads in most premises because it’s in constant use while your premises is open or operating. Whilst replacing with LED lights is effective...
Above & Beyond Cycle Challenge 2020
How did I get involved in Above & Beyond 2019 It was a friend of mine Simon Laws who said “Paul come along to a wine and drinks party , its for a cycle challenge from Bristol to Paris” “Cycle Challenge?” I replied “Yea I did it last year, it was brilliant” “OK...
Emergency Lighting
Often Emergency lighting is overlooked, it should have a 3 hour test at least bi-anually. I was asked to look at some LED emergency lighting in one of our customers premisses. To my surprize the batteries were completely shot, last just a few seconds before switching...
LED Panels – Headaches & Glare!
Emma said the Staff were complaining of headaches and too much glare! I was asked to survey a suite of offices two floors for an Aviation Company in Essex. They had recently purchased new 600 x 600 LED panels fitted, so I was curious as to why they required a survey....
Pit Falls Of LED Lighting
Lets look at the myths: LED lights last for ever! No they don’t whilst the LED chip is a light emitting diode its life will depend its quality, the heat dissipation and the quality of the driver. (coverts mains to DC current like on a computer) They all save the same...