Comments on: Retrofitted Exit Signs Can Save Up to 90% in Energy Costs http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/23/retrofitted-exit-signs-can-save-up-to-90-in-energy-costs/ Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 22:05:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Charles V. Barlow http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/23/retrofitted-exit-signs-can-save-up-to-90-in-energy-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-165185 Charles V. Barlow Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:40:49 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27670#comment-165185 LED exit signs can provide significant savings in energy and maintenance costs over older electrical signs using incandescent and fluorescent lamps. LED lighting of all kinds holds the promise to provide tremendous savings over the next several years and decades as older lighting is retired and replaced. Another way to save even more energy, money and maintenance expenditures is to replace electrical exit signs with non-electrical photoluminescent exit signs. Where there is sufficient normal interior lighting to properly charge code compliant photoluminescent signs, there is 100% savings in energy costs compared to LED and other electrical exit lights. Imagine, code compliant non-electrical emergency lighting. Safe. Reliable. Effective. ZERO energy consumption; ZERO radioactive components; no batteries, LEDs or lamps to replace; virtually ZERO maintenance. EverGlow aluminum photoluminescent exit signs contain ZERO toxic or vinyl components and have a minimum of 60% post consumer recycled aluminum content. Building & fire code officials, life safety experts and building owners concerned with the safety of their tenants are all moving toward non-electrical photoluminescent emergency lighting - code compliant exit signs, floor level exit path markings, stair nosings and handrail markers. Some are trying to save money; some are trying to mark their exits so they can provide for faster, safer egress during emergencies. Only photoluminescent emergency lighting can provide many hours of luminance to identify the escape path during electrical failures with no concerns with radioactive environmental contaminants. The author is operations manager of EverGlow NA, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of photoluminescent emergency lighting. LED exit signs can provide significant savings in energy and maintenance costs over older electrical signs using incandescent and fluorescent lamps. LED lighting of all kinds holds the promise to provide tremendous savings over the next several years and decades as older lighting is retired and replaced.

Another way to save even more energy, money and maintenance expenditures is to replace electrical exit signs with non-electrical photoluminescent exit signs. Where there is sufficient normal interior lighting to properly charge code compliant photoluminescent signs, there is 100% savings in energy costs compared to LED and other electrical exit lights.

Imagine, code compliant non-electrical emergency lighting. Safe. Reliable. Effective. ZERO energy consumption; ZERO radioactive components; no batteries, LEDs or lamps to replace; virtually ZERO maintenance. EverGlow aluminum photoluminescent exit signs contain ZERO toxic or vinyl components and have a minimum of 60% post consumer recycled aluminum content.

Building & fire code officials, life safety experts and building owners concerned with the safety of their tenants are all moving toward non-electrical photoluminescent emergency lighting – code compliant exit signs, floor level exit path markings, stair nosings and handrail markers. Some are trying to save money; some are trying to mark their exits so they can provide for faster, safer egress during emergencies. Only photoluminescent emergency lighting can provide many hours of luminance to identify the escape path during electrical failures with no concerns with radioactive environmental contaminants.

The author is operations manager of EverGlow NA, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of photoluminescent emergency lighting.

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