The total amount of the deduction  is limited to$1.80 per square foot of the portion of the property the work was performed.  The total of the deduction that you can qualify for depends on the scope and the cost of the retrofit.  The other factor to consider is the level of reduction achieved.  The minimum reduction of 20% is a key to qualifying for this incentive.  

Although this program is designed primarily for building owners, managers of rented or leased facilites who make comparable upgrades are also eligible.

The program has been extended and is schedule to end January 1, 2014.  Typically, the cost saved in utility usage alone is enough to warrant a payback in two to three years with utility rebates.   The combined utility rebate along with the commercial building tax deduction make “going green” a no brainer.  The added benefit to upgrading your lighting is that you can also redesign your layout to be more efficient and with the new lighting technology, your maintenance should be reduced as well.

For more information, or to schedule your building lighting audit, please call All Reach Property Lighting at 720-233-8800.

Energy Efficient LED Lighting in Retail

This is a Classic Neon Sign

The neon sign at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO needed to be repaired and All Reach Property Lighting was called in to troubleshoot the problem with the sign.  With the postion of the sign, a tradtional bucket truck could not be used due to access in front of the theatre.  The old fashion man on a ladder 40 feet in the air had to be used.

It was determined that the sign had a neon unit.  We removed the bad piece of neon and will remake the unit to be re-installed, keeping this Boulder landmark sign in perfect working order.

Manufacturing of the bulbs will be banned, gradually, starting in 2012 with the high-wattage 100-watt bulbs. The 75-watt bulb will follow in 2013, then the 60- and 40-watt in 2013.

While compact florescent light, CFL, has been around for more than a decade, electric device manufacturers and energy conservation specialists are scrambling to educate consumers on purchasing both CFL bulbs and a new generation of halogen incandescent or cutting-edge LED bulbs, the new “green lighting” solutions.

With the growing prominence of the energy-saving compact florescent bulbs and the scheduled incandescent phase out, other numbers come into play -lumens and kelvins.
CFLs cost more than three or four times incandescent bulbs. But an average CFL bulb can save the user between $30 and $60 through its lifetime.

For additional information, please contact All Reach Property Lighting, 720-233-8800.  We can discuss a lighting audit and the rebates you qualify for by upgrading your lighting to a more energy efficient system.

Drive More Sales with LED Signs

According to the Small Business Administration, installing digital signage can increase sales from 15% to 150%! Can you afford not to consider an LED sign for your dealership or service center?

Reach your daily drive-by audience with today’s most effective advertising medium— eye-catching LED electronic message centers.

Built like no other electronic display on the market, LED message boards from All Reach Property Lighting communicate to your customers with light, motion, and color:

• Show new vehicle models.
• Highlight the latest rebates and incentives.
• Offer daily specials on overstocked models.
• Promote your high profit margin service specials and dealer warranty programs.
• Advertise your competitive advantages: “meet or beat” pricing, unique dealer offers, free pickup/drop off, etc.
• Run instant “rainy day” ads for oil changes, tire rotation, tune ups, tire promos.
• Announce community sponsorships and events.
• Entertain waiting customers with current news, sports and weather services.

LED displays can supplement or replace your traditional automotive advertising with instantly recognizable, instantly customizable content that you control.

And it’s economical, too: requiring little or no maintenance, the ROI of a digital display can come in as little as a few months.

Contact All Reach Property Lighting and learn how easy it is to use the power of our indoor and outdoor electronic message centers to your advantage.  Free site analysis, 720-233-8800.

Increase Sales with a Variable Message Center

No Better Time to Upgrade Existing Lighting Systems

The Common Lamp’s Failure

The common incandescent lamp, fluorescent lamp, energy-saving lamp, and
other gas-discharge lamps are all equipped with an electrode (filament) which
is what causes these lamps to fail prematurely. The induction lamps are not
equipped with an electrode instead they emit light by the combination of the
principles of both electromagnet induction and fluorescence discharge, thus there
is no component (filament) that limits the service life. The service life depends
on the quality of the electronic components. The general service life could
reach 100,000 hours compared to 20,000 for typical HID lamps.

Up to 60-65% Energy Savings

In comparison to traditional HID luminaires induction lamps provide energy
savings up to 60-65%. Savings occur in part because lumen depreciation is
dramatically reduced with induction lamps (max 30% depreciation from 60,000-
100,000 hours) compared to HID lamps (40% depreciation at 8,000 hours). This
allows for much lower wattage lamp to be installed since HID lamps need to be
installed with much higher initial lumens than are needed to offset the fast lumen
depreciation that is inevitable with HID lamps.

Induction Lamps Last up to 4 x’s Longer

Since induction lamps have up to a 100,000 hour rated service
life, they can be expected to last four to five times longer than HID
lamps assuming typical usage. This results in dramatically reduced
re-lamping and labor costs that are associated with HID lamps. In
addition, induction lamps use 1/3 the amount of mercury as HID lamps and it is
in the form of solid mercury amalgam so they don’t have an adverse impact on
the environment even if broken. It also has a 99% coefficient of recovery which
provides true environmental protection and is the definition of a green light
source.

Call All Reach Property Lighting to perform a lighting audit today,
720-233-8800. There are rebates and tax credits that may be
available to help facilitate an upgrade to green lighting technology.