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Photoluminescent Exit Signs are a Cost Effective way to Go Green
Companies that are committed to making their entire operation coincide with the principles of the green movement typically run into a cost barrier. Sure, recycling and using non-toxic office products are a great way to be environmentally friendly, but if you want your company to be environmentally flawless you’re looking at such projects as replacing a traditional electric system with wind or Solar Power, revamping a gray water system and replacing old building materials. In short, you’re looking at a small fortune.
In terms of cost planning, it’s significantly more feasible for a new company to erect an environmentally friendly building than for an existing company to transition an old building from an eco-horror to an eco-friendly gem. That’s why established companies typically employ a step-by-step process when they decide to green.
There is, however, a financial silver lining in the general cost of going green: The more eco-friendly controls a company puts in place, the more it ends up cutting traditional operating costs, the savings from which can be used to increase a company’s budget for going totally green. This is especially the case when switching from electrical power to solar power or wind power, but there are also some small, affordable, eco-friendly measures that companies can take to decrease operating costs; and one of them is replacing electrical fire exit signs and Tritium exit signs with photoluminescent exit signs.
Photoluminescent exit signs—also known as “self-sustaining” exit signs—have been around for more than a decade. In the early 1990’s, the signs failed to make a dent in the emergency signage market because they didn’t burn very long or very bright in darkened conditions. Photoluminescence happens when an object absorbs photons from its surrounding environment and then re-emits them. In the case of exit signs, the problem lay in finding a way to make the photouminescent material absorb a higher level of photons from ambient lighting and them re-emit them for an extended period of time in darkened surroundings. In the old days, self-sustaining exit signs burned for only a few hours, but nowadays the signs burn between 12 and 96 hours, depending on their photon absorption level, providing more than enough hours of illumination for any emergency evacuation situation.
Unlike non-electrical Tritium exit signs, self-sustaining exit signs don’t contain radioactive capsules that could possibly break and are expensive to dispose of; and unlike electrical exit signs, they don’t use electricity and, therefore, are maintenance free. As an example of the cost savings that photoluminescent exit signs offer: A company that replaces 100 incandescent exit signs with self-sustaining exit signs will realize a savings of over $3500 a year. Multiply that amount by five years and you have a decent amount of money to put towards installing solar panels, reconstituting a waste water system or replacing environmentally unfriendly building materials.
The green movement is more than a fad. Governments and companies around the world now realize that, without addressing the way we’ve conducted industry for more than a century, ecosystems will become unsustainable, causing far reaching effects in the human world. While eco-friendly fire exit signs are a small part of the total solution, they remain an excellent way to cut a company’s costs and set it on the path to greener pastures.
About the Author
Having been in the construction industry most all of my life, safety evacuation is the number one concern for buildings that need a quick way out for people who work or visit that building in case of an emergency. I have found photoluminescent fire exit signs not are the safest, but are the most economical as well. Visit GloBriteSystem.com for more information on fire exit signs.
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