Luckily, today's energy-efficient lighting technology offers a wide variety of options that can reduce your lighting energy costs by as much as 40 to 60 percent! In fact, many businesses realize even greater savings with lowered air conditioning costs and increased employee productivity through an improved working environment.

Since each corporate and industrial lighting situation is different, the best way to determine the savings a more efficient system will generate is to conduct a lighting audit. FMS Lighting Management Systems, a leader in innovative lighting technology for nearly four decades, can conduct an audit and make recommendations on a custom-designed system. A more efficient system will not only save you money, which adds to your net profit, but also provides optimum lighting for your employees.

here's a look at several technically advanced lighting options FMS utilizes to save energy dollars and improve lighting in corporate, institutional and industrial environments.

FMS offers complete family of innovative, compact fluorescent lamps and fixtures. Compact fluorescent lamps not only offer dramatic energy savings, up to 85 percent over incandescent bulbs, they also offer long life, and silent operation. Since it takes one watt of air conditioning to offset the hear generated by one watt of light, these energy-saving lamps reduce air conditioning costs watt for watt.

Reflectors have become America's number one choice for lighting upgrades. Why? They can save 50 to 75 percent of lighting energy, cut maintenance costs by nearly half and greatly reduce air conditioning bills. For office, industrial or retail environments, FMS can utilize reflectors or create a highly efficient lighting system.

You can save as much as 40 to 60 percent of your total cost for light energy when you use a combination of T-8 lamps and electronic ballast. You'll see a dramatic reduction in energy costs and additional savings in maintenance costs.

Reduce lighting costs in offices, conference and copier rooms, and computer areas by 35- 60 percent with sensors that automatically turn lights off when not in use. Sensors can even be installed in stairwells, corridors, training or classrooms, kitchens, break rooms, rest rooms or any area where there is intermittent usage.

A security and/or back-up emergency lighting system increases employee and customer safety as well as reduces your exposure to liability and possible high-cost injury suits. FMS can design and install a security or emergency lighting system specifically created for your business or update and maintain a system already in place.

PCBs, classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as hazardous waste, are common in office buildings, industrial plants, hospitals, schools, universities, and retail stores built prior to December 1978. In compliance with federal regulations, FMS has the capability to transport, provide the proper storage container and dispose of any ballast found to contain hazardous PCBs.