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Get the Most from Daylighting + Controls
According to the
National Institute of Building Sciences, daylighting, or the use of natural light, not only boosts employee productivity, it also reduces life-cycle costs, environmental emissions, and operating costs from your lighting expenses. Ideally, the management of daylighting is seamless through the integration of lighting products with today's smart controls, which provide excellent reliability and accurate light-sensing capability, yet remain simple and flexible to use.
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What's Cool for Kids? Color!
Pediatricians have a unique challenge.
Gotham Lighting has a unique solution.
Among
Gotham's large selection of downlighting is the
Candéo LED, a high-performance downlight with dynamic
color-changing accent features designed to add a certain visual interest, particularly for the young patient. Still, the light functions effectively for the doctor. How?
A patent-pending reflector optical system allows effective general illumination with a compact fluorescent source to function independently, in the center, from a color-changing LED source that surrounds it. With its spectrum of red, green and blue LEDs, the Candéo LED provides up to 16.6 million vibrant color options – just enough to distract most any child during the dreaded needle prick.
Changes Ahead Spell
Need for Lighting
'Reform,' As Well
As healthcare reform takes shape, physical demands of healthcare facilities have already begun to wear out 20th century models.
Going forward, continued reduction in inpatient care and increase in outpatient care are foreseen. Hospitals will expand to provide care from a local array of "campus" services. Efficiency in operations will be, for care centers themselves, a matter of life or death. These changes affect lighting decisions.
A practice recommendation by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) covers these and many other issues for both lighting designers and healthcare professionals.
Addressed in
Lighting for Hospitals and Health Care Facilities are "lighting needs specific to acute care hospitals, chronic care hospitals, extended care facilities, and related facilities (free-standing ambulatory surgical centers, emergency centers, etc...)." For information on how to order,
visit the IES Web site here.