NATURAL SUNLIGHT OR NEAR NATURAL
SUNLIGHT CAN DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE
SALES AND PERFORMANCE
What you can do to get better quality lighting or natural sunlight
into your work space:
1. Improve your lighting. Do not use old style fluorescent
lighting. You must have an electronic ballast that
resonates at a high speed to improve the quality of your
lighting.
2. Use natural sun lighting or near natural light bulbs. These
bulbs operate at near the same temperature as the sun.
(5500k) and generate light over 95 CRI. 100 cri is the
same as the sun.
3. Give your employees the ability to control the level of
lighting for their tasks that makes them most comfortable.
How we accomplish these goals :
1. Our lights all have electronic ballasts that resonate at high
rates thereby eliminating the fluorescent pollution
problem.
2. Our bulbs are all rated at over 5500 k and over 95 CRI
giving near natural sunlight.
3. Each employee can control the lighting for their overhead
lights from any computer in your unit.
4. We are working on developing a system to bring actual
sunlight into your office space to replace artificial lighting
when the sun is shining.
All of the above features are included in your rent and
there is not extra charge!
BELOW PLEASE SEE HIGHLIGHTS OF ARTICLES THAT
DEMONSTRATE WHY SUNLIGHT OF NEAR NATURAL
SUNLIGHT IS SO IMPORTANT TO YOUR OFFICE AND
WORKSPACE ENVIRONMENT:
EXCERPT OF NEW ARTICLE:
In a companion study, the researchers looked at 108 stores that were part of a large
chain. The stores were virtually identical in layout, except that two-thirds of the stores
had skylights. They then looked at the sales figures for the various stores and
determined that a skylight system increased sales by 40 percent
A companion study found that sales were 40 percent higher in stores with skylights,
compared with almost identical stores in the same chain without skylights.
A Wal-Mart store improved sales in areas lit by skylights, no matter what merchandise it
put there. Wal-Mart never released any statistics for researchers to analyze, but within
the past year it decided to build all its new stores with more natural light. Costco and
Home Base both have begun designing new stores with skylights, and Target has been
studying their effect on energy use and sales.
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GO TO THE WEB SITE
Source: Energy Design Resources
http://www.nbs-inc.net/toppage11.htm
EXCERPT OF NEW ARTICLE:
The quality of lighting in a workplace can have a significant effect on productivity. With
adequate lighting workers can produce more products with fewer mistakes, which can lead to
a 10-50 % increase in productivity. Good lighting can decrease errors by 30-60 % as well as
decrease eye-strain and the headaches, nausea, and neck pain which often accompany eyestrain.
Adequate lighting allows workers to concentrate better on their work which increases
productivity
Source: Study funded by the California Energy Commission
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http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/hazardwk/ergono
/lighting.pdf
EXCERPT OF NEW ARTICLE :
A Rocky Mountains Institute report relating "green" or sustainable buildings to human productivity reviewed eight
case studies, two of them with remarkable results. The first concerned a new Wal-Mart, in Lawrence, Kan.,
designed to harvest optimal daylight through skylights installed on half of the roof. According to Wal-Mart, the
sales per square foot located within the departments with access to natural light are significantly higher compared
with sales in departments located under the conventional roof. Sales were also higher than in identical departments
in other stores without access to skylights. In fact, Wal-Mart employees prefer to work in the departments with
daylight.
Source: International Labor Organization (Washington, DC)
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GO TO THE WEB SITE
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3601/is_49_52/ai_n26702741
EXCERPT OF NEW ARTICLE :
* Improved worker performance: 15% - 45% drops in absenteeism, 6 -16% gains in labor
productivity (includes lowered error rates).
* Increased
* Improved retail sales: 4% - 49%.
* Reduced energy usage for lighting: 30 - 70%.
* Reduced energy usage for heating and cooling in well-designed buildings.
Commercial building design investments that maximize daylighting pay for themselves in
well under 5 years through smaller, less expensive cooling systems, when they cost
anything extra at all. But more importantly, because such a large share of a building's lifetime costs is the salaries and benefits
paid to those who work in them, even very small percentage increases in human productivity can produce large financial
savings over the life of the building, whose total costs (assuming, for example, they are $111 million), according to the MN
Department of Administration, are very roughly apportioned according to a 1-10-100 ratio:
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TO GO TO THE WEB SITE
http://www.nextstep.state.mn.us/res_detail.cfm?id=1441
EXCERPT OF NEW ARTICLE :
The quality of lighting in a workplace can have a significant effect on productivity. With
adequate lighting workers can produce more products with fewer mistakes, which can lead to
a 10-50 % increase in productivity. Good lighting can decrease errors by 30-60 % as well as
decrease eye-strain and the headaches, nausea, and neck pain which often accompany eyestrain.
Adequate lighting allows workers to concentrate better on their work which increases
productivity.
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GO TO THE WEB SITE
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/hazardwk/ergono/lighti
ng.pdf
EXCERPT OF NEW ARTICLE :
Common levels of fluorescent lighting in offices are sufficient to elevate blood pressure by
about eight points. There is some evidence that lengthy daily exposure to moderately high
lighting leads to diminished sexual performance.[citation needed] Specifically within the USA,
there is evidence that levels of light in most office environments lead to increased stress as
well as increased worker errors
Over-illumination is sometimes grouped with unnatural spectra because negative health effects
may result from the excess illumination, and also because certain artificial lights (such as
fluorescent lamps) provide intense illumination in certain frequency bands, unlike daylight,
whose spectral power distribution is fairly even over the visible spectrum. The most desirable
spectrum is that of natural light, which the body is attuned to and uses to set the circadian
rhythms.[4]
Health effects of over-illumination or improper spectral composition of light include
increased headache incidence, worker fatigue, medically defined stress, decrease in sexual
function and increase in anxiety.[6][7][8][9] The health consequences are particularly significant
of improperly matching the color spectrum of sunlight when illuminating the
workplace.[10][7][11] Clinical studies documented in the foregoing references have been
conducted for each of these health effects, except for sexual dysfunction, in which case only
a linkage has been suggested through the decreased endothelial function associated with
hypertensive increase.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-illumination
EXCERPT OF NEW ARTICLE :
Does Eyecare Pay?
A high percentage of VDT operators has been found to have uncorrected or undercorrected
vision problems that may affect their visual performance and comfort (Rosner and Belkin;
Sheedy and Parsons). Uncorrected vision problems in the workforce create more problems than
those corrected situations that showed 4 to 8% decreases in task performance. Although these
were laboratory studies and the tasks were performed for durations considerably shorter than a
full workday, it is likely that similar inefficiencies occur daily for workers with uncorrected
vision disorders. One might even expect that 8-hour productivity would be more greatly reduced
because of the symptoms and fatigue which accompany the vision problems.
If an employee's compensation is $30,000 (including benefits), a 1% improvement in work
efficiency is worth $300. Eyecare can be provided for considerably less than this-and will likely
produce a greater than 1% increase in productivity.
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/602012/visual_ergonomics_in_the_workplace/index.
html?source=r_technology