Commercial Lighting Upgrades

If your commercial premises still use fluorescent tubes, halogen fittings, or metal halide lamps, you are paying significantly more for lighting than you need to. A commercial lighting upgrade replaces outdated fittings with modern LED equivalents that use 50–70% less electricity, last five times longer, and produce better quality light for your staff and customers.

Most commercial lighting upgrade projects pay for themselves within 2–3 years through reduced energy bills and lower maintenance costs. After that payback period, the savings go straight to your bottom line for the remaining life of the fittings – typically another 7–10 years.

Why Upgrade Your Commercial Lighting?

Lighting is typically the second-largest energy cost for commercial premises after heating. An upgrade delivers immediate benefits across several areas:

• Energy savings of 50–70% – LED fittings use a fraction of the electricity of fluorescent or halogen equivalents. For a medium-sized office running 50 fluorescent panels for 10 hours a day, the annual saving is typically £2,000–£4,000.
• Reduced maintenance costs – LED fittings last 50,000+ hours compared to around 10,000 for a fluorescent tube. That means fewer lamp replacements, fewer call-outs, and fewer disruptions to your business from failed fittings.
• Better light quality – modern LED panels produce consistent, flicker-free light that reduces eye strain and headaches. Fluorescent tubes degrade over time, producing progressively dimmer, yellower light before they finally fail.
• Instant start – LED fittings reach full brightness immediately, unlike fluorescent tubes that flicker on startup and metal halide lamps that take 10–15 minutes to warm up.
• Environmental compliance – upgrading to LED demonstrates your commitment to reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many businesses use lighting upgrades as part of their sustainability reporting.

What We Upgrade

Offices

Replace 600mm x 600mm fluorescent ceiling panels with modern LED equivalents. The swap is quick and non-disruptive – the new LED panel drops into the same suspended ceiling grid as the old fluorescent fitting. We typically upgrade an entire office floor in a single day, often outside working hours to avoid any impact on your staff.

Warehouses and Industrial

High-bay LED fittings replace metal halide and sodium lamps in warehouses, workshops, and factory floors. LED high-bays provide instant full brightness with no warm-up time and can be used with PIR motion sensors in low-traffic areas, saving additional energy when nobody is present.

Retail and Hospitality

LED track lighting, downlights, and feature lighting to showcase products and create atmosphere. We specify fittings with CRI 90+ for retail environments where accurate colour rendering matters – clothing, food, cosmetics, and jewellery all look better under high-CRI LED than under fluorescent.

Car Parks and External Areas

Replace sodium or metal halide car park columns and wall-pack fittings with LED equivalents. Better light distribution, instant start (important for security), and photocell or timer controls to switch off when not needed.

The Business Case

We provide a full energy savings calculation for every commercial lighting upgrade project.

We survey your existing lighting, count the fittings, note their wattage and daily usage hours, and calculate the current annual running cost. We then specify LED replacements, calculate the new running cost, and show you the annual saving and payback period. This gives you a clear, documented business case to present to your management team, finance department, or landlord.