Why Photoluminescence Lighting Applications Are Essential in Commercial Buildings
Photoluminescence lighting can help provide occupants with a helpful guide to safety through their closest exit.
The installation of photoluminescence lighting is essential in commercial buildings, especially during emergency evacuations when a building may lose power. Photoluminescence lighting can literally and figuratively serve as a light in hallways and stairwells to help guide building occupants to the closest exit routes and safety. While the concept of burning inside a building fire is extremely terrifying, the stats speak for themselves: occupants inside a building fire are much more likely to die from smoke inhalation than from the fire itself. As smoke clouds up a building and spreads fast, photoluminescence lighting and firestopping can help provide occupants with a helpful guide to safety through their closest exit. Read on to learn more!
Photoluminescence Lighting Does Not Require Power
During an emergency evacuation of a building, a fire might cause a power loss or shut down out of safety measures. Backup lighting might potentially be deemed unusable because of power loss, and in these scenarios, billowing smoke could start to cloud up the hallways, causing them to appear pitch black. This is dangerous since it can disorientate occupants inside a building as they look for an exit route into safety. Since photoluminescence lighting doesn’t require a power source, it serves as an emergency guide for building occupants by creating a glowing path to the exits.
They Glow Up to 48 Hours
Photoluminescent lighting will glow up to 48 hours within any blacked-out, smoky conditions. This will help firefighters go through a commercial building in which a fire has happened after all building occupants have exited safely. Since all photoluminescence lighting uses no power source at all, you can depend on it to function regardless of whether or not your commercial building has any power.
Does Not Require Maintenance
One of the top perks of photoluminescence lighting is that it doesn’t require any maintenance at all after its installation. As a commercial building owner, this means you won’t have to worry about providing photoluminescence maintenance around your building. Instead, you’ll be able to focus on making sure the facility remains up to local and state standards and regulations for all of the fire safety systems set in place. Give G&M Services a call today if you’d like to learn more about photoluminescence lighting as well as other types of fire prevention jobs that we specialize in!
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