What Hidden Trade-Offs Do Medical Facility Lighting Choices Create? Healthcare lighting upgrades are rarely just about saving energy or swapping in new fixtures. The real challenge is balancing clinical performance, patient comfort, infection control, maintenance, and code compliance simultaneously. How is healthcare lighting different than most commercial interiors? Hospitals and clinics are not simple commercial…
Lighting for Healthcare: Balancing Safety, Comfort, and Compliance Healthcare lighting has a job that goes well beyond brightness. In a hospital, clinic, surgery center, or medical office, light affects how safely people move, how comfortably patients feel, how accurately staff can work, and how well the facility meets technical and regulatory expectations. The best healthcare…
What Is Wet Location and Damp Location Lighting? (And How to Choose the Right One) When you are planning a lighting project, “wet location” and “damp location” cannot be treated as marketing buzzwords—they are code-defined categories that affect safety, compliance, and fixture longevity. Quick Summary: Wet vs Damp Location Lighting Damp location lighting is designed…
Selecting The Correct Light Fixture Lens for Commercial Applications Balancing the utilization of different types of light fixture lenses is essential to achieve both functionality and aesthetic appeal in lighting design. Understanding how light is dispersed and refracted through translucent material is at the core of using lenses to create a desired “type” of illumination.…
Kerri Funderburk • 3/13/2024Breathing New Life into Vacant Buildings through Adaptive ReuseAdaptive reuse refers to the process of repurposing an existing building for a new use other than its original purpose. This involvesmodifying the structure, layout, and potentially the exterior to suit the new function. It’s essentially giving an old building a second life and a new…
Kerri Funderburk • 1/25/2024 • 4 min. readHow Healthcare Professionals Can Prioritize Visual Accuracy and Minimize Visual Errors in Surgical SettingsAs a company that designs, engineers, and manufactures lighting for technical applications, such as operating rooms and surgical suites, we recognize that it is crucial to emphasize the potential risks and consequences that can arise…
Hospital Light Fixtures Are Not “One-Size-Fits-All” Hospitals are a myriad of rooms, many of which serve distinct purposes and have variable lighting requirements. Patient rooms, emergency rooms, surgical rooms, and MRI suites depend on high-quality LED lighting designed to particular criteria to meet varied requirements and needs. Energy-efficient lighting is necessary for the medical industry…
Tamper-Proof Lighting Protects Prison Population KURTZON™ provides tamper proof and damage resistant light fixtures designed to withstand the abuse often found in prison cells, and other high traffic public areas. Learn more about these industry leading products. There are almost 2.3 million people within the American criminal justice system according to PrisonPolicy.com and maintaining safety…
Lighting Plays a Healing Role in Modern Behavioral Healthcare Facilities Behavioral health facilities depend on lighting to provide a safe and secure environment while maintaining a residential atmosphere for the patient. Nearly gone are the unfortunate decades-old perceptions of behavioral health facilities as cold, prison-like institutions with concrete walls, bars on windows, and the ever-present…
What Is Hazardous Location Lighting? Definition of hazardous location lighting Hazardous location lighting refers to light fixtures specifically designed for industrial areas where flammable gases, vapors, combustible dusts, or fibers may be present in the atmosphere. Because luminaires are electrical devices, they can create arcs, sparks, or high surface temperatures that could ignite these materials,…