Fail-Safe, Sustainable & Cost Effective

Ecoglo designs and manufactures Signs and Escape Route Products to meet New Zealand Building Code Clause F8 Signs and Clause F6 Visibility in Escape Routes.

Ecoglo's patented manufacturing process produces highly durable photoluminescent materials that are then incorporated in sustainable, fail-safe and cost effective emergency lighting and signage systems.

Ecoglo’s research and development has focused on developing products that have superior durability and predictable visibility.

In New Zealand Ecoglo can be seen at Eden Park, Canterbury University, Vector Arena, Downtown Carpark, Christchurch and Wellington Hospitals, St James Theatre as well as many other educational and public facility buildings.

Ecoglo’s patented products have been used worldwide in facilities as varied as the Melbourne Cricket Ground, New York’s ‘Jazz at the Lincoln Center, Singapore Supreme Court, Toronto’s Eaton Centre, London's Bond St Underground Station and Dubai’s 160 floor Burj Khalifa.

By harvesting sunlight or recycling the existing light in a building, Ecoglo products provide sustainable and cost effective building solutions. The solutions are failsafe, operate immediately and do not require ongoing maintenance.

Since April 2012 the Building Code Acceptable Solution for emergency exit signage (F8/AS1) has allowed photoluminescent ("PL") exit signs to be used wherever "illuminated exit signs" are required.

There are strict performance requirements specified in F8/AS1 that make sure the PL signs will meet all the requirements of the NZ building code. To Ecoglo's knowledge, Ecoglo signs are the only PL signs available in New Zealand that are bright enough to meet F8/AS1.

If you're not sure if Ecoglo signs are right for your project, please read through our F8/AS1 FAQ page, or work through our decision tree flow charts

If you're planning to specify or use Ecoglo signs that meet F8/AS1, we recommend you review our compliance checklist and test report

F8/AS1 requires 100lux illumination on the signs whenever they need to charged ready for possible emergency use. If you aren't sure whether the existing illumination (from daylight or electrical lighting) will provide the 100 lux, there are a number of ways to check this out:
-To see if you are likely to be in the ball park, Ecoglo are developing a number of lighting scenarios that show typical lighting installed in a variety of situations, with the calculated illumination where the exit signs would typically be.
-You can create your own lighting model using DIALux or similar
-You can measure the illumination on site
-You can discuss your specific project with Ecoglo

If you want to use Ecoglo signs but there isn't 100lux illumination where the signs need to be, you can do this with an Alternative Solution. We recommend you review the F8 decision tree flow chart along with the F8 Alternative Solution document, the F8 specifier checklist, the F8 compliance doc checklist and the maintenance checklists.
Or Ecoglo can review your project and provide alternative solution documentation if appropriate. For a simple building layout this usually costs less than $200: contact Ecoglo.