Emergency Exit Lights – 3 reasons you should use LEDs

Written by Chris Driscoll on February 25, 2020. Posted in LED Emergency Exit Lights, PKK Blog.

Buildings accessible to the public, including office buildings, warehouses, retail stores, and manufacturing facilities, are required to have emergency exit lights to show the path to the emergency exits as well as the emergency exit doors. It is important that your emergency exit lights be properly placed within your commercial building and it’s also important that your exit lighting function properly, even in a total power outage.

Tips from a Madison, WI Lighting Maintenance company

Written by Chris Driscoll on January 21, 2020. Posted in Light Maintenance Companies, PKK Blog.

The interior and exterior lighting for your building or facility is an important area to stay on top of throughout the year. In addition to the lighting needed for people to do their jobs and to navigate around your facility, there is also the emergency lighting in case the power goes out so that people can safely exit the building.

6 things to know when shopping for High Bay Lighting

Written by Chris Driscoll on November 12, 2019. Posted in LED Retrofit, Lighting Installation Companies, PKK Blog.

Whether you are constructing a new facility that needs high bay lighting or looking to upgrade your current high bay lighting fixtures, there are a few things you should know before you make your final decision about the solution that’s best for you:

Deciding between LED Tubes and LED Lighting Fixtures

Written by Chris Driscoll on August 20, 2019. Posted in LED Retrofit, Lighting Installation Companies, PKK Blog.

If your organization is looking to get the benefits of upgrading your older linear fluorescent lights with LED, one of the decisions you’ll need to make is whether you will replace the fluorescent tubes with LED tubes or invest in new LED fixtures.

How to calculate ROI and payback period from LED lighting retrofit project

Written by Chris Driscoll on July 16, 2019. Posted in LED Retrofit, PKK Blog.

This is the sixth and final blog post in the series to calculate the total Return on Investment (ROI) that a business will generate from their LED lighting retrofit project. Previously, we published the following posts in this series:

How to calculate Material savings from an LED lighting retrofit project

Written by Chris Driscoll on June 14, 2019. Posted in LED Retrofit, PKK Blog.

This is the fifth blog post in the series to calculate the total Return on Investment (ROI) that a business will generate from their LED lighting retrofit project. Previously, we published the following posts in this series: How to calculate the HVAC energy savings from an LED lighting retrofit project – April 2019 Energy Savings […]

How to calculate HVAC energy savings from an LED lighting retrofit project

Written by Chris Driscoll on April 30, 2019. Posted in LED Retrofit, PKK Blog.

This is the fourth blog post in the series to calculate the total Return on Investment (ROI) that a business will generate from an LED lighting retrofit project. Previously, we published the following posts in this series:

Energy Savings from an LED Lighting Retrofit project

Written by Chris Driscoll on March 24, 2019. Posted in LED Retrofit, Lighting Installation Companies, PKK Blog.

Of all of the reasons to embark on an LED lighting retrofit project, the energy savings from the project might be the most compelling. Not only do the savings go directly into your pocket from a reduction in your monthly utility bills, but the carbon footprint your business is leaving is smaller. While the impact of the project on our planet is important, it’s the reduction in your utility costs that will likely get management’s attention and help sell the project.

Labor Savings from an LED Lighting Retrofit project

Written by Chris Driscoll on February 13, 2019. Posted in LED Retrofit, Lighting Installation Companies, PKK Blog.

In our last post, What
will you save from an LED Lighting Retrofit Project?, we provided a high
level overview of how to calculate the savings your business will recognize
from an LED lighting retrofit project. As a reminder, the major
contributors to the total savings are:

Labor savings
Energy savings
Material savings
HVAC savings

In this post we will go into more detail about the labor
savings from an LED lighting retrofit project.

What will you save from an LED Lighting Retrofit Project?

Written by Chris Driscoll on December 27, 2018. Posted in LED Retrofit, Lighting Installation Companies, PKK Blog.

Your business is interested in finding ways to save money throughout your company. You’ve worked on process improvement and other cost cutting initiatives and you’ve managed to find significant savings that went straight to the bottom line. You recently heard about the potential savings you can get from an LED lighting retrofit project and you have a question – “how do I calculate the savings from an LED lighting retrofit project?” This article will provide you with a high level overview to calculating the savings your company will realize from such a project, and future articles will provide more detailed information to computing the actual savings.

Chris Driscoll

PKK Lighting, Inc