Caveat Emptor! Understand the Products You’re Being Offered

Start With A Professional Audit

It’s impossible to engineer a lighting retrofit solution without a comprehensive audit!

The adage ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’ is applicable to every lighting retrofit. A good audit is much more than just counting fixtures, and should allow your lighting partner to simulate your facility based on an exhaustive collection of data. Any retrofit recommendation not based on a multi-faceted, detailed audit is highly suspect.

An inadequate audit not only fails to provide the greatest opportunity for energy savings—it can create added costs down the road in change orders and system modifications, increased maintenance and poor productivity.

A qualified and experienced auditor will:

• recognize opportunities for controls and daylighting
• understand light level requirements by task (as defined by IESNA)
• and most importantly, should understand your objectives so that engineers can provide the right recommendations for you to choose from.

Contact any Aelux consultant or visit the Essential Retrofit Guidelines for more information.

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