Commercial & Industrial Lighting Maintenance and Installation 

For an engineer call out,  a new lighting installation or for long term pre-planned lighting maintenance, contact Niall niall@higginselectrical.co  and we will help you see the light.

Higgins Electrical Ltd are dedicated to providing quality lighting products at a competitive price.  We always install with a professional and considerate service.  We offer the full range of commercial lighting technology to suit any commercial or industrial environment.  

Technical / Glossary      Stop The Press:        Emergency Lighting

Reactive Maintenance agreements

Call out and repair services are called upon as and when a lamp or number of lamps are no longer operational.  A quick call will result in an engineer visiting site and repairs being effected. All costs are agreed before hand and payment is made on a 14 day account. 
 
Scheduled lighting Re-lamp

In simple terms it is cheaper to change all the lamps in one go and then have long periods with no lamp failure and no call out charge.  This service can be targeted at specific clients sites or areas within sites.  Our engineers will attend site and bulk re-lamp, removing all old light lamps from site and sending them for full recycling, disposing of them in accordance with environmental legislation.

Full maintenance agreement
 
Regular visits are scheduled and only new parts used are chargeable. This is often means having one particular engineer attached to the site and aims to develop a solution for sites with no in-house lighting maintenance personnel.

Lighting maintenance is essential to running a healthy business.  Failure to maintain lighting will cost more in the long term.  If lamps are not replaced before they extinguish this can result in causing other components  to burn out as well. The main advantage of good lighting maintenance is the solutions will reduce business disruption improve the working environment and minimize long term cost.

Small office works

We are more than happy to help with small office works. Over time desks are moved and lighting socket outlets and cat 5 becomes haphazard and needs to be re organised. Weather you need a few extra lights or a new lighting design we will offer the same enthusiasm to help improve the working environment.

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  Emergency Lighting 

      We  Design            We Do  Installation         We Do Regular Testing  
  

Higgins Electrical Ltd can design, install and maintain emergency lighting systems to suit all. The systems are designed to the BS5266 standard. For further information or to discuss your requirements, please contact Niall on 0203 3845198. or use our contact page. We can design to suit all budgets.

     Existing Emergency Lighting Annual Periodic Testing

As well as providing the complete package for new systems we are also able to provide periodic testing for your existing emergency lighting.

The purpose of testing emergency lighting is to ensure that the emergency lights remain fully functional. We also check all emergency lighting is up to date with current legislation and is adequate for the purpose intended. It is important to have documentation showing these regular tests have been carried out. All testing and repairs should be recorded in the emergency lighting log book.

BS5266 recommends that emergency lighting systems be regularly serviced by 'competent persons'. These being persons with the necessary knowledge, skills and training to undertake an emergency lighting servicing procedure. Monthly testing can often be carried out by in-house personnel. Annual testing is recommended to be carried out by external contractors. Implementation of a periodic system of inspection and testing ensures that emergency lighting systems operate to full capacity.

Emergency lighting should in an emergency or  major power failure ensure that people can safely evacuate the building and also enable fire service search and rescue teams to enter the building with at least minimal illumination.

we installed a building wide emergency lighting system in the 12,000 sq ft TimeGuard building.

              One of our happy customers

We have installed emergency lighting in dozens of residential blocks as this is now often recommended following the mandatory fire risk assessment.

              One of our happy customers

For any of the above services please contact Niall on 0203 3845198 or  via our quick quote contact page.    

Free Fire Risk Assessment PDF 

Technical / Glossary

Recommended Lighting Levels

Corridors Stairs Warehouse	100/150 lux
Rough bench work General office work	300/500 lux
Medium bench work	500/700 lux
Detail office work General retail	500/1000 lux
Fine bench work	1000/1500 lux
Fine inspection	1500/3000 lux
Minute work	3000/5000 lux
Source: CIBSE 1994 Interior Lighting Code

Average Lamp Life to 50% survival;

Fluorescent tube:	20,000 Hours (with High Frequency Ballasts)
Fluorescent tube:	15,000 Hours (with Switch Start Ballasts)
Metal Halide	15,000 Hours
Compact Fluorescent:	10,000 Hours
Low Voltage	4,000 Hours
Tungsten-Halogen	2,000 Hours
Tungsten GLS	1,000 Hours

Glossary of terms used on this website

Cat2 Reflector	Category 2 reflector, used in areas of medium VDU use
diffuser	the part of a luminaries that distributes the light emitted by the lamp
fitting	a luminaries without a lamp
fluorescent lamp	a gas filled envelope with an internal phosphor coating incorporating electrodes
halogen	gas used in a lamps construction
high frequency ballast	gear required to strike and run a fluorescent tube
housing	the body of a luminaries
illuminance	the luminous flux incidence (commonly "amount" of light)
lamp	any number of devices that produce illumination
light bulb	commonly used term for any lamp
low voltage	common term for SELV, typically 12v
luminaries	the equipment containing a lamp
lux	the unit of illuminance, equal to 1 lumen per m²
mains voltage	common term for 240v
Passive Infra-Red	typically PIR, equipment allowing the switching of circuits upon detection of a body of heat
photocell	equipment used to switch circuits at adjustable light levels
reflector	the part of a luminaries which controls the light emitted by the lamp (e.g. Cat2 reflector)
Gear	equipment required to illuminate a lamp i.e. ballast, transformer
SELV	Safety Extra Low Voltage, operating at 50v or less
switch start ballast	gear requiring a glow-type starter switch to strike and run a fluorescent tube
transformer	equipment used to reduce mains voltage to SELV
tungsten	material used in a lamps filament construction
VDU	Visual Display Unit (typically a computer screen, television)
1st Fix	usually, that part of an electrical installation that is not visible on completion
2nd Fix	usually, that part of an electrical installation that is visible on completion

As an Niceic approved contractor
Higgins Electrical are committed to the highest standards