Advantages of LED Parking Lot Lighting

Why All Parking Lots Should Have LED Lighting

If you’re exploring an LED street lighting solution for your business or searching for LED outdoor lighting to assist with your city’s planning, you’ve likely been having the “what do we do about the parking lot?” conversation a lot recently.

As students of Yale University’s parking maven, Don Shoup, would tell you, the way that you structure your parking lot can have a profound influence on your building, on the people who use the space, and even on the surrounding community. So you want to do parking lot lighting “right.”

LED lighting offers cool options to assist with your parking lot challenges. First of all, LEDs can generate a more efficient lumen output, which means wider, more consistent coverage. LEDs can make your lot easier to navigate, because drivers and pedestrians can see better at night and during storms and dusk. Also, better lighting means that would-be robbers and wrongdoers will have fewer places to hide.

LED bulbs also last much longer than do traditional incandescent solutions. That redounds to positive affect for your maintenance team, who will have to expend far fewer man-hours, over the years, to keep the facility operational. LED bulbs are also more efficient. This means that your bulbs will consume less electricity over time — a substantial net energy savings.

Parking lots are notoriously environmentally unfriendly, because they act as heat islands and prevent the growth of natural vegetation. (Don Shoup catalogs many other “sins” of traditional parking lots in his profound book, The High Cost of Free Parking, if you’re interested).

Decorative LED Lighting for California and Nevada Parking Lots

With a outdoor LED lighting solution in place, you can make your company or city’s lighting a lot more eco-friendly. To learn about how this technology can be adapted for your commercial or municipal purposes, contact the team here at Great Basin Lighting for a free estimate. Give us a call today at 925-240-1566 (CA) or 775-333-0900 (NV), or fill out our online contact form right here on our website.