Emergency Lighting
Curating an effective emergency lighting range
A legal requirement in all public, commercial and high occupancy residential buildings, emergency lighting is a key line for electrical wholesalers to provide.
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consistent revenue generator, this sector of the market is in constant demand and offers ongoing sales potential across both new-build and retrofit projects. But when it comes to curating an emergency lighting range how do you ensure that you’re offering the right products to maximise sales? Chris Anderson, technical manager at Ansell Lighting, shares his advice.
A key requirement in building safety design, emergency lighting plays an important role in ensuring the safe evacuation of occupants during a power outage or other emergency. Without it, navigating through a building safely would be near impossible, increasing the risk of injury,
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panic or harm to building users. As a core element of all lighting ranges, emergency lighting is an important sector for electrical wholesalers, delivering a consistent revenue stream and strong sales. Given its legal status, it is also an area that we can confidently say is not going anywhere, so how can wholesalers truly maximise its potential?
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The first step is to begin by focussing on the products themselves. Installers will commonly require a mixture of escape route, open area (or anti-panic) and high-risk task lighting products. Each space will have its own requirements and building design and usage will determine
what is needed, but to cover most installer requirements, a comprehensive emergency lighting range should include bulkheads, exit boxes, exit signs, twinspots, recessed downlights, surface downlights, wall lights and trackspots. Accessories or emergency conversion kits for panel, batten or highbay fittings are also a key addition, giving emergency functionality to existing fittings that may already be in place. Alongside product type, wholesalers should also ensure the range they offer includes a variety of power sources. ‘Self-contained’ and ‘central battery source’ are the two main types, both of which deliver reliable illumination when required but with differing benefits.
Self-contained emergency lighting systems
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