Gymnasium Lighting & Gym Lights

What are the best fixtures to use for gym lights?
Metal halide lights are almost always the best luminaires to use in gymnasium and athletic sport field lighting. They are frequently found in school gyms, clubs, and recreational basketball courts and provide a robust source of white light with a high CRI.

What is the best way to mount gymnasium light fixtures?
The ceiling height is around 25’, so the best mounting height HID lights is 22’ above the gym floor. To protect the basketball court lighting against accidental ball impacts, using die cast aluminum luminaires suspended on hooks or safety chains to allow the fixture to swing with the impact if hit during a game.

What wattage works best in most gyms?
Due to increasing improvements in HID technology 400 watt lighting fixtures have replaced 1000 watt luminaires in most gyms. Lower wattage fixtures allow you to incrementally increase foot candles by installing more lighting fixtures in closer proximity to one another. At the same time, they give you much better control of the light and are much more effective at shielding players and spectators from glare.

1000 watt luminaires almost always produce excessive glare and have to be specially phosphor coated to create more comfortable distribution of light. This coating is an additional cost that isn’t worth accruing for yourself or passing on to your client, and it generally results in disappointing results because it diminishes not only glare, but luminance levels in general by as much as 15%. Pulse start metal halide lighting fixtures, on the other hand, can produce anywhere between 20-80 foot candles of light in gymnasiums of any size.

Is there a standard style fixture to use in gymnasium lighting?
There is no set fixture that is a “one-size fits all” luminaire. Certain characteristics, however, are universal in the best gym lights. These features have to do with how the luminaire distributes light and keeps glare at a minimum. Look for gymnasium lights that feature parabolic faceted reflectors that disperse illumination downward and prevent spill light from blinding the eyes of players and fans.

HID fixtures of this type are almost always the best choice for lighting college gymnasiums that play host to camera crews. Cameras need a higher luminance than the human eye to accurately render color and motion, and parabolic shielding and faceted reflectors will allow you to create up to 80 foot candles of light without white spots or pockets of glare. The number of sports lighting fixtures used, the height of the ceiling, and the reflectivity of the ceiling and walls all play a factor in both distributing illumination and producing the negative by product of light pollution if luminaires are too intense.

What is the best way to light a multi-court gymnasium?
Multi-court gymnasiums may require special considerations and planning. The best way to determine what fixtures to use and what intervals to install them is to have a photometric analysis performed on your client’s gymnasium. A photometric report will quickly reveal problem areas of glare and shadow can be immediately pinpointed, and strategies implemented to counter act them.

What are the best ballasts to use in gym lighting?
In most lighting case studies, the best ballasts to use are standard auto regulator CWA. These ballasts provide good energy efficient, reliable power distribution for most HID fixtures used in gym lighting. Other ballast types may be needed, however, for certain types of court lighting or areas of the country with heavy moisture or dust content in the air. Remote ballasting is recommended if at all possible to protect equipment from accidental ball impact.

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Commercial LED Business Lighting

Although LED lights represent a significant front end investment for businesses, the multitude of features, advantages, and benefits this technology contributes toward savings on power costs and green building energy efficiency cannot be understated. Because of recent estimates that 40% of all the world’s greenhouse gases are generated by inefficient buildings, investing in new technology now may not only represent a progressive step toward human progress, but it may also soon become a matter of compliance with new legislation that will no doubt seek to curb energy costs associated with lighting.

Considering these facts, let’s begin our analysis of LED commercial business lighting by looking at how this technology specifically helps earn points that can contribute toward earning a LEED construction or renovation certificate.

LEED CERTIFICATION
LED lights for businesses are extremely important to any organization seeking LEED certification. Even though no single product in and of itself can certify a building as “green,” LED business lighting fixtures offer tremendous advantages that earn points for LEED certification on four major levels: energy and atmosphere, sustainable sites, indoor environmental quality, and innovation and process design. General contractors, architects and builders, electrical contractors, and commercial site lighting designers can encourage business owners to invest now in LED lights, assuring them that in the long run the money they save will both recover the procurement costs of the purchase and help recession proof their business by reducing overhead and accumulating a budget surplus. Also, earning points toward a LEED lighting certification can also help recession proofs a budget by preparing a business in advance for the inevitable changes that will very soon sweep the entire lighting industry as global concerns over energy consumption and climate change mounts.

ENERGY AND ATMOSPHERE (1-10 Points)
It has been determined that for every 1 million Kwh in energy we save in the world, 777 metric tons of carbon dioxide will be eliminated from Earth’s atmosphere. LED's can make significant progress toward this goal.

Because LED business lighting is so much more efficient than incandescent and HID lighting, it dissipates less heat into space. Cooler temperatures in turn take the strain off of the HVAC system and help lower cooling costs. Another advantage that LED business lights offer is a much more uniform and directional form of illumination than do traditional lights. Because of this, lower levels of light can be utilized to meet minimal lighting requirements, thus further driving power costs down.

SUSTAINABLE SITES (1 Point)
Light pollution is a major concern in a growing number of large and mid-sized cities that are experiencing increased urban sprawl and an influx of job seekers. RLLD Commercial Lighting equips businesses with full cutoff LED site and architectural area luminaires, including lighting case studies to earn light pollution credit.

INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (1 Point)
Indoor lights are always better when they are controllable and easy to set to desired levels. Because indoor LED business business ight fixtures are fully dimmable, they can earn the 1 point credit for lighting control provided they are connected to the correct type of controller.

INNOVATION AND DESIGN QUALITY (1-4 Points)
LED lighting represents a revolutionary source of technology that is environmentally friendly and extremely high performance. Any business that integrates LED light technology into its scope of operations can potentially earn credit toward certification on the basis of progressive thinking and proactive change.

ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGES AND BENEFITS
LED light fixtures and lamps for business lighting save money not only on power costs, but also on disposal and maintenance costs. Because these luminaires can last for over 100,000 hours, replacements are very infrequent when compared to HID or, even worse, incandescent.

LEDs also offer the true pioneers in business the first truly viable light source through photovoltaic means. In the past, it simply was not possible to get enough solar power to light an incandescent light or HID lamp. However, since LEDs require minimum voltage compared to other lamp types, solar energy becomes a very real potential source of power that could truly change the world and end the energy crisis in the future.

Finally, because light bars in these luminaires contain no mercury, there is no toxic waste disposal fee, and many LED fixtures used to light business sites and interiors feature aluminum die cast build that is completely recyclable.

INDOOR AND OUTDOOR LED LUMINAIRES AVAILABLE
RLLD Commercial Lighting supplies businesses with every available type of indoor and outdoor LED luminaire. These commercial lights feature unique fixture and heat dissipation technology that maintains operating temperatures at a minimum and enhances the precision of photometric distribution and overall site lighting efficiency.

All major site and architectural area lighting fixture types are represented in our online inventory. Indoor LED lighting for businesses can range from the purely decorative to the purely functional, or it can be linked to lighting controls and dimmers to blend elements of both function and form.

Call or email an RLLD Commercial Lighting expert how about LED options for lighting businesses more efficiently, economically, and with a greener, brighter future fixed firmly in mind. Check out our lighting examples and commercial lighting case studies.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial, commercial and athletic sports lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including San Juan, PR (SJU), Isla De Vieques, PR (VQS), Fajardo, PR (X95), Erie, PA (ERI), Killeen, TX (ILE), Sheridan, WY (SHR), Casper, WY (CPR), Parkersburg, WV (PKB), and Escanaba, MI (ESC).

We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Commercial Exterior Architectural Lighting

Working with a design services hardware vendor like RLLD Commercial Lighting will give your business, no matter how large or small, access to resources few of your competitors can obtain, saving you time and money in the process and providing a level of scientific precision few of your competitors can rival. With specialized architectural lighting design software, we will input the data that you gather from any municipal, commercial, academic, government, or sports facility site and scientifically calculate the precise photometric lighting requirements for optimal foot candle density and directional lighting control. These calculations are vital to the development of a competitive and cost effective proposal that your client will feel confident about. Remember, what you propose today should perform for many years with a minimum of future complications, expenditures, or mishaps.

Ideally, exterior architectural lighting should compliment natural and architectural elements with luminaires whose fixture designs reflect the geometric themes and subtle nuances of the environment they light. These luminaires must also function with optimal efficiency and deliver the quality of light that purely functional site lighting fixtures provide. It is necessary for your clients to realize from the beginning of the consultation process that exterior architectural lights absolutely have to anticipate stringent lighting control laws now taking effect across the nation. New lumens per watt efficiency requirements, light pollution restrictions, and limitations on the actual lamps that can be used are becoming increasingly. What you propose to your client today must be able to withstand not only the forces of nature and time, but also the forces of change within human infrastructure and society. Creating an exterior architectural lighting design customized to the exact activities and aesthetic of your client’s site with minimal maintenance, upgrades, and replacements is something we specialize in helping you do.

This often equates to something like a Spartan approach to fixture placement. As increased efficiency and efficacy in HID and LED outdoor lights make it possible to get more lumens per watt from the average lamp, we can illuminate larger areas than ever before with fewer physical fixtures and less obtrusive equipment. This gives a huge competitive advantage to freelance electrical contractors and smaller design firms who normally lack the funding to invest in high-end development software packages and lack the manpower to engage in long-term collaborative design sessions with clients who know intuitively what they want, but lack the technical knowledge to spec out the details in a timely manner. RLLD Commercial Lighting experts can handle this phase of your proposal development for you by taking the raw data you collect from your client a point-by-point schematic of the entire exterior architectural lighting system.

As a general rule, we subdivide exterior architectural lighting systems into components representative of specific operations and aesthetics. This is necessary because different elements of site lighting often fall into overlapping categories of regulation. Parking lot lights and parking lot light poles are good examples of this. Parking lot lights must meet the minimum foot candle requirements of the local community in which they are installed. They must also control their light output in such a fashion as to fully comply with local dark sky laws, and the poles used to support them must meet wind load requirements mandated by higher levels of government. Commercial garage lighting requires equal attention to both vertical and horizontal foot candle density, and calculating this delicate balance requires either access to specialty software or a degree in high-level calculus. Building and landscape lights must keynote geometric forms, and these as well must be both energy efficient and optimized for glare reduction and light pollution control to remain compliant with government mandates.

The key to developing a truly superior architectural exterior lighting system is to use only enough visible commercial lighting supplies to compliment the scenery without dominating its elements. Decorative fixtures should be visible, yet “low profile” in their positioning, and they must always bring more attention to the objects they light than they do their own appearance. By paying attention to this simple, but much understated fact in the world of lighting design, you will give yourself an enormous competitive advantage over rival bids that over emphasize equipment and miss the essence of precision design and true site enhancement.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial lighting, commercial lighting and athletic sports field lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including San Juan, PR (SJU), Isla De Vieques, PR (VQS), Fajardo, PR (X95), Erie, PA (ERI), Killeen, TX (ILE), Sheridan, WY (SHR), Casper, WY (CPR), Parkersburg, WV (PKB), and Escanaba, MI (ESC). We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Commercial Indoor Lighting Solutions

Most clients you propose services to will be very concerned about the recession. They are going to want reassurance from the get go that the lights they buy today will last a long time to come and help them either save money, make money, or both. If you can prepare a proposal in advance that quantifies specific channels of ROI, you can give yourself a competitive advantage over almost any rival you are up against. Many commercial environments in and of themselves are defined by the type and quality of indoor lighting. Some depend on the lighting itself as a contributing factor that directly impacts the generation of capital. Others experience the benefits of indoor commercial lights on a more indirect, somewhat intangible level. The quality and nature of an organizationʼs commercial indoor architectural lighting system has a direct impact on its morale, production time, and generative financial power. Understanding the type of business you are looking to help will in turn help you very quickly what types of commercial indoor lights to order to best meet the requirements of your clientʼs environment, activities, and fiscal overhead.

Industrial Organizations
Industrial clients receive the greatest benefits from indoor commercial lights that cut power costs and provide superior supportive task lighting. They seldom take the time to focus on decorative concerns, choosing instead to give top priority to the utilitarian and functional requirements of task-supportive lighting. This is both a matter of focus and a matter of safety in industrial environments. Shadows constitute trip hazards in warehouses and factories, and glare can create an equally hazardous environment. For shipping/receiving, manufacturing, and material handling facilities, it is imperative to think SAFETY and CONSERVATION with every fixture you install. Keep in mind that industry is very heavily related in these areas, just as commercial indoor and outdoor commercial lighting are becoming increasingly regulated.

Service Based Organizations
Office personnel in service industries work best in an environment under commercial indoor light that is both task and decoratively oriented. Usually this involves multiple layers of light, and it almost always requires more than one lamping option. Commercial lighting controls help to control both indoor lighting levels and the consumption of electricity. Lighting control is especially vital to specialty rooms, such as conference rooms, that function in a multi-dimensional capacity. The ability to both control the overall level of light and directly manipulate layers and colors of light is vital to effective presentation and maximizing the potential of any environment used for presentations, audio-visuals, and teleconferencing.

Retailers
Retailers need commercial indoor building lights with the very best CRI to light products on shelves and to showcase anything of importance that has been placed in its own display. They also need multiple layers of light, normally at least two to effectively showcase both their floor space and specific products that are intended to be differentiated from general product selection. It is paramount to do this as cost effectively as possible. Retail profit margins are normally rather slim, so the more you trim a storeʼs overhead on power bills, the more readily they will embrace both the technology and the design you propose.

Hospitality Clients
Hotels, country clubs, restaurants, and resorts require a very specialized approach to commercial indoor lighting. Each location features a variety of buildings whose interior architecture varies on a room per room basis. So many special events occur within each room of every facility that commercial indoor lighting fixtures and lamps have to provide everything from task and general lighting to special decorative and associative aesthetic themes that support the brand of the organization, the activities that normally occur with each area, and a general sense of removal from mundane reality to a higher, superior, and more eclectic realm of activity.

Clients Interested in LEED Certification
You may find a client in any of the four industry classifications above could possibly be looking to obtain LEED certification. Installing the appropriate specification grade indoor fluorescent commercial lights be a major factor in earning points toward such an accreditation. Because high electric bills are very often the result of high temperature created by outdated lighting fixtures, very often the first step in lowering the power costs for these clients is to replace indoor lights that are burning too hot with cooler burning equivalents. Hand in glove with this methodology is also replacing lights with lower LPW with superior LPW efficiency ratings. New commercial fluorescent lighting, induction lighting, and most especially, LED commercial light fixtures and lamps all offer new options never before available to lower overall electric consumption and qualify for points in environmental friendliness and innovation and design as well.

Lighting Design Services from RLLD Commercial Lighting
Our clients range from general contractors and architects to property developers and commercial lighting design firms who range in size from the sole proprietor to the multi-site corporate level. To accommodate this broad spectrum of clientele, and to ensure that everyone has the ability to save time on proposal development and develop superior, energy efficient solutions in full compliance with all governing regulations, we have investing in state of the art point by point lighting design software which we will use to help you develop your clientʼs system at no additional charge provided you purchase your commercial indoor or commercial outdoor lighting fixtures from us. Smaller companies can appear equivalent to large ones through this partnership, and large companies can save money on training and staff development by outsourcing schematic design to our experts.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial light poles, industrial lighting fixtures and sports athletic field lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. You can contact us at our home office is located in Houston, Texas and we have warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including San Juan, PR (SJU), Isla De Vieques, PR (VQS), Fajardo, PR (X95), Erie, PA (ERI), Killeen, TX (ILE), Sheridan, WY (SHR), Casper, WY (CPR), Parkersburg, WV (PKB), and Escanaba, MI (ESC). We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Decorative Commercial Sign Lighting

Many contractors and business owners fail to include sign lights in their commercial lighting systems because they mistakenly view them as an unnecessary expense. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Commercial sign lights will proudly advertise and organization or companyʼs logo throughout the night and make a strong impression on the minds of passing motorists and pedestrians that view it from the road. In some industries such as retail and hospitality, a sign is an absolute must-have because it serves not only as a brand, but also as a magnet that draws people in. Commercial sign lights in these environments must be very energy efficient because they stay on for at least 6-8 hours on the average every night. They must also be able to weather the elements without degradation of light quality. It is also best to install fixtures that not only compliment the size of the sign, but also compliment its color scheme and position in order to create a truly seamless fit. This is because, after all, the whole purpose of sign lighting is to highlight the colors and lettering without drawing attention to lighting equipment.

Commercial sign lighting fixtures by RLL Design feature a number of competitive advantages that can help you achieve the three musts of decorative commercial sign lighting: appropriate distance, angle of incidence, and lighting intensity. This offers a great deal of choice for both the do-it-yourselfer and the seasoned veteran of lighting design. Many signs sit atop buildings on strut supports similar to billboards. Others mount high on poles, while others still look like monuments in the ground that mark the entrance to a government office, restaurant, hotel, commercial headquarters, or industrial warehouse. Many industrial companies will brand their warehouses factories with lettering on the sides of the buildings themselves, turning their structures into commercial signs. Lighting fixtures here must produce exceptional vertical down light and up light without consuming too much power. Having a variety of RLL Design commercial sign light fixtures to choose from helps tremendously, because it allows for fixtures to be matched to specific building features and sign types quickly and efficiently. Angled reflectors and gooseneck style fixtures feature specially sealed lenses that protect lamps from water and dirt intrusion. They also feature a multitude of optional accessory mounts so they can be custom mounted to virtually any surface at optimal distance to produce optimal foot-candle levels for clear visibility from roadways and parking lots.

In order to make commercial electric sign lights not only brand competitive, but also cost competitive in terms of a return on investment, it is necessary to calculate just how much voltage and wattage you actually need to light your commercial sign. Most do it yourselfers, regardless of expertise, tend to overestimate these numbers to make certain they have adequate levels of light. This often runs up the bill and frequently leads to a service call a professional that has to retrofit fixtures with a higher energy rating. With RLLD, this is never a worry. One of the many benefits both professionals and end users can expect from us is energy consciousness across the board. For commercial sign lights or commercial landscape lighting requiring incandescent based lamps, we offer fixtures in low voltage models that are designed to minimize power consumption during extended hours of use. Whenever possible, our experts recommend alternative, comparable energy efficient lighting options in fluorescent and LED gooseneck and angled reflector commercial sign lights.

Although many commercial sign lighting fixtures are comparatively small and feature sophisticated lamping and wiring technology, precision o-ring sealed lenses protect lamps from dust and water ingress. Both our commercial gooseneck sign lights and angled reflector models are protected by a chromate conversion process and polyester powder coat finish that makes them super corrosion resistant. Commercial designers working in salt air environments, humid climates, and heavily polluted areas can assure their clients that a one time investment in gooseneck or angled reflector sign lights can keep their brand clearly visible and economically lit for many years to come.

RLLD Commercial Lighting supplies a wide variety of sport athletic field, industrial and commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for in our lighting case studies, lighting blog or on our RLLD Commercial Lighting Website call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA).

About RLLD Commerical Lighting Services

RLLD Commercial Lighting operates as an online commercial lighting equipment supplier and adjunct lighting services vendor to contractors, developers, and suppliers in the commercial lighting design industry. We sell only lighting fixtures, lamps, and accessories that are made in the United States, and we operate from Coast to Coast working in partnership with builders, architects, and electrical professionals to assist in creating the very best indoor and outdoor commercial lighting systems in the country. With a staff whose experience totals over 30 years in expertise and excellence, we strive to be a bright spot in the commercial lighting industry…an oasis, if you will, of products, lighting articles and services aimed at helping lighting design professionals pass on solutions to their clients that will generate tangible, measurable returns on investment that will work toward recession proofing both contractor and client alike. RLLD Commercial Lighting also leads the way in energy saving solutions; lighting regulations compliance, emerging technology, and community management for professional organizations who can stand to gain much more than equipment and basic support when they opt to participate.

Here are a few lighting case studies illustrating the depth of RLLD Commercial Lighting Design Services:

Canadian Tennis Court Lighting Project
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Missouri City Commercial Path Lighting Project
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Retail Center Parking Lot Lighting Project
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Guam Skateboard Park Lighting Project
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We are able to offer such as sweeping diversity of products and scope support because of the unique relationships we enjoy with American light fixture manufacturers.

Unlike regional distributors who are often bound to quotas and exclusive, binding agreements, we operate nationwide without obligation to sell any particular product at any particular time. This allows us to take a very objective and impartial stance when providing our clients with equipment. In fact, most of our clients already know exactly what lighting products they want for their projects and simply call us to locate the best source, price, and equipment features specific to their needs. This allows us to expand our sphere of service from simply being a distributor of equipment to being an lighting design advisor, consultative partner in the preparation of your proposal.

When you call us, you get a live sales representative on the phone trained in all aspects of commercial lighting who can answer detailed questions about specifications, applications, and customization options.

Sales agents at RLLD Commercial Lighting will take the time to understand the nature of your project in order to pinpoint exactly what fixtures and lamps are ultimately most suitable for your client. Our sales representatives will work with you from conception to analysis, from specification to procurement, maintaining an ongoing dialogue and providing you with a wealth of information you can pass to your clients as they ask questions. We also will conduct a full photometric analysis of any client’s site using advanced lighting design and planning software that we have obtained at great expense. When you order equipment from us, we will deduct the cost of the photometric lighting analysis from the price of the equipment. For select products, we offer turnkey installation services throughout the United States, making us truly a one source supply house, consulting firm, and installation partner to your organization.

Because our reach is nationwide, and because we work in direct partnership with lighting manufacturers all over the United States, we can handle bulk procurement with much greater efficiency and expedition than local or regional brick and mortar vendors.

We can fast track rush orders in as little as two weeks, arranging for the lighting manufacturer to ship equipment directly to your client’s location. Because we do not rely on anyone but the manufacturers themselves for equipment, any retrofits or replacement parts that the manufacturer currently has in stock can be ordered and dropped shipped expeditiously with faster lead time than competing vendors typically can offer. Oftentimes, however, buying a replacement lighting fixture is more economical and profitable than locating replacement parts. As a courtesy, we always try to offer you second and third options to consider so your clients feel like they have more than one option as well and you have more negotiating power at the line item level.

One other thing that differentiates RLLD Commercial Lighting from other vendors is our relentless pursuit of energy saving solutions through power saving equipment, low voltage technology, and new emerging technologies that offer to ultimately transform the entire world of lighting.

We make it a point to offer our fixtures that feature the best energy ratings, highest lumens per watt output, glare shielding, reflectors, and optics. We are fully conscious and aware of the growing trend for municipalities to regulate both power consumption and light pollution. If you operate in more than one city, county, or state, keeping track of the many different laws that apply throughout your sphere of service may pose something of an inconvenience to you. Our specialists will be happy to help you with any research into local parking lot lighting codes to help you save time and focus on preparing an impeccable proposal.

We welcome you to our site and encourage you to contact us us often to participate in our community management program. This program will allow you to receive discounts on products and services, dialogue with experts, receive referrals for new business, and participate in incentive programs for contractors who volunteer testimonials and lighting design suggestions.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial lighting poles, commercial lighting and athletic sports field lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for visit our lighting blog or call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

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Commercial Lighting Fixtures

Incandescent
Although incandescent lamps are more frequently used in residential lighting applications, some commercial lighting fixtures also used this technology. Incandescent lamps pass current through a filament, which causes the filament to give off light. Because they are relatively short lived, incandescents are used mostly as decorative commercial lighting fixtures. Their ability to render warm colors effectively without ballast makes them well suited to this application, and the enormous variety of bulb designs make them highly soft after source of any type of accent lighting or decorum based commercial lighting design.

Fluorescent
Fluorescent lamps are used extensively in commercial lighting fixtures for a number of reasons. First and foremost of these reasons is their ability to use less power than other commercial lighting fixtures, making them very cost effective from an energy conservation perspective. Fluorescent bulbs also produce a very bright light that is evenly distributed, making them ideal commercial warehouse lighting fixtures and products, canopy lights, security lights, in interior retail lights in discount stores where high levels of general lighting help psychologically motivate larger bulk purchases of discount merchandise.

Fluorescent bulbs produce light by activating phosphors on the interior of the bulb using ultraviolet energy generated by a mercury arc. Ballast helps start and operate the fluorescent lamps by regulating electron flow through the gaseous arc. Trends in fluorescent lighting technology have made them more compact, increasing lumens per watt efficiency as high as 100 lumens per watt, and reducing the amount of toxic mercury within the bulbs interior. Fluorescent commercial lighting fixtures are best deployed underneath building eaves (as in the case of canopy lights), near loading docks, in wallpacks on the sides of buildings, or as large grocery store or warehouse lights. Placing them too far out into open spaces tends to diffuse their light output and diminish their intensity.

High Intensity Discharge (HID) Commercial Lighting Fixtures
HID stands for High Intensity Discharge. It refers to a technology where light is produced by a gaseous arc discharge using a variety of elements. Typical elements include mercury vapor, metal halide, and high pressure sodium. The arc tube within an HID lamp will contain one or more of such elements, and when current passes between the electrodes at either end of the tube, the current creates an arc that generates visible light.

HID lamps feature the highest efficiency in lumens per watt output and also feature a greater level of lighting control. They also last longer than other commercial gooseneck lighting fixtures, making them a wise investment for a company on a Spartan budget that cannot afford to continually replace equipment.

High intensity discharge sources include mercury vapor, metal halide, and high pressure sodium (HPS) lamps. Light is produced in HID and low pressure sodium (LPS) sources through a gaseous arc discharge using a variety of elements. Each HID lamp consists of an arc tube which contains certain elements or mixtures of elements which, when an arc is created between the electrodes at each end, gasify and generate visible radiation.

Light Sources and Lamp Characteristics

Mercury Vapor (MV)
Mercury vapor lights were some of the first HID commercial landscape lighting fixtures developed. They were designed originally to meet a rising demand for a very compact, high output, and energy efficient source of light. They are used extensively in a number of landscape lighting applications, being commonly deployed as tree lights in high-end commercial outdoor lighting systems. In other applications they have proven somewhat less effective duo to their inferior color rendering abilities, although this has improved to a certain extent over the years by phosphor coated interior bulb walls.

The life of mercury vapor lamps is good, averaging 24,000 hours for larger wattage lamps. However, because the output diminishes so greatly over time, economical operational life is often much shorter. Efficacy ranges from 30 to 60 lumens per watt, with the higher wattages being more efficacious than the lower wattages.

As with other HID lamps, the starting of a mercury vapor lamp is not immediate. Starting time is short, though, taking 4-7 minutes to achieve maximum output depending upon the ambient temperature.

High Pressure Sodium (HPS)
High Pressure Sodium (HPS) commercial parking lighting fixtures gained huge popularity in the 1970’s to meet the needs of a powerful, yet super efficient, source of HID lighting. Lumens per watt output in an HPS lamp can be as high as 140 lumens per watt—approximately 7 times the luminance as incandescent lamps and twice that of MV or Fluorescent. They also last for approximately 24,000 hours---the longest lamp light on the market.

The problem with HPS commercial lighting fixtures has always been the quality of light they create. HPS lamps give off a yellowish or orange-tinted color and are not acceptable light sources for situations where illuminating a brand, architectural keynote, or any type of ornate exterior landscaping requires a high level of color rendering. For the most part, they are used in applications such as commercial parking garage lighting, warehouse lighting, and certain outdoor applications such as security flood lighting.

Metal Halide (MH)
Metal Halide (MH) commercial warehouse lighting fixtures are fast becoming the preferred source of HID lighting in most commercial environments. This is because they produce a very bright white light that nearly equivalent to daylight in its color rendering ability. The variety of applications is significant as a result, ranging from decorative street lighting, commercial parking lot lighting, car lot lighting, outdoor landscape lighting, architectural lighting, security lighting, and general site lighting. Traditionally, their biggest drawback has been their short lamp life—only 7,500 hours on the average.

Newer designs in Metal Halide commercial lighting fixtures include pulse start technology and ceramic metal halide design. These improvements have increased lumens per watt efficiency, control of the light itself through superior dimmability, better stability of color rendering, longer lamp life, and shorter start time.

Unfortunately, recent legislation has called for the phase out of certain standard forms of MH commercial exterior lighting fixtures due to their use of incendiary elements that fall under the classification of greenhouse gas sources. This in turn paves the way for the most sophisticated lighting ever developed on our world, and quite possibly, the singular source of lighting used both commercially and residentially in the very near future: LED commercial lighting fixtures.

LED Commercial Lighting Fixtures
As technology improves, the ability to create truly “white” led light continues to evolve. LED commercial electric lighting fixtures are featuring higher lumens per watt efficiencies than their initial prototypes initially offered. This has opened the door for a number of architectural lighting and site lighting applications that were previously the exclusive domain of HID commercial lighting fixtures.

We are also seeing an upsurge in the use of led commercial lighting fixtures in street and roadway lighting, where a number of municipalities in the United States and Europe have reported some very promising findings in regards to both power cost reduction and the overall quality of street lighting itself.

Look for quarterly leaps and bounds in the engineering gains made by LED commercial lighting fixture manufacturers, and be sure to sign up for our RLLD Commercial Lighting Newsletter which will feature news updates and case studies about this exciting and revolutionary technology.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial, commercial and sports athletic field lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA).

Wallpacks & Wall Pack Lighting

The best way to decide which wall packs your client is going to need is to have us conduct a detailed photometric analysis of your clientʼs building. We have invested heavily in some of the worldʼs most sophisticated lighting design software that will enable us to calculate the necessary foot-candle density around the building, the lumens per watt efficiency needed to keep your client in compliance with local area lighting codes, and the economic stress relief that more efficient fixtures will have on your clientʼs energy bill.

By making these calculations first, we can then help you narrow down the options to the wall packs that most fit the criteria determined by the analysis. Most of our site lighting wall packs are designed with the deliberate intention of creating security lighting around a building. Any industrial client or distribution center you are contracted by is going to be very interested in knowing how these fixtures can keep their facility safe from intrusion and vandalism. Other clients, such as those public centers with a great deal of nighttime pedestrian traffic, are going to need wall packs that illuminate walkways for people to better see. Still other organizations may want simple decorative commercial lighting around the building, and wall packs can provide a very ambient and cost effective lighting source to this effect.

Finding wall packs is never difficult because they appear to be everywhere. However, finding the one that offers a near perfect fit to your clientʼs needs is a different matter. Our staff is always happy to go over the photometric lighting design analysis with members of your team and present multiple options for you to pass on to your clients. In this sense, we function as an adjunct consulting service as well as an equipment vendor.

All of our wall packs also feature some degree of energy efficiency. The ever popular metal halide lamp is now available in pulse start technology, allowing an MH wall pack to instantly power on whereas in the past it took a few moments to fully illuminate. This enables you to integrate your clients wall pack lights into motion sensors that will turn on the lights that are attached to the building in addition to the flood lights around the building.

We also provide zero sight line wall packs. These are ideal for preventing the beams from your fixtures from being seen above the roof of your building. If you are uncertain as to the nature of dark sky laws in your clientʼs community, do not call city hall. Call us, and we will research local lighting fixture regulations in detail for you.

All of our wall packs are made in the USA and backed up in full by written manufacturer warranties. Additionally, we procure our wall packs from a number of impartial manufacturers, not a single source. This means we have no quotas to meet and no hidden agendas in what we propose as the best possible commercial lights for your client. Our recommendations made objectively and are not based upon preference for a particular manufacturer or style of fixture, but rather on the basis of determining what needs to be done for your client, then looking through our distribution channels to find the model that provides an exact match to your clientʼs requirements.

Because we can access so many different types of wall packs, you will not have to wait on parts to arrive when you obtain them from RLLD Commercial Lighting. Our special relationships with American manufacturers enable us to have your wall packs drop shipped ASAP directly to your clientʼs location without having to pass through third party distribution channels. This can shave off as much as a month from standard lead time.

It is also much more easy to use RLLD Commercial Lighting as a streamlined channel through which you can obtain different models, wattages, and lamp options from two or more different manufacturers on a single purchase order.

RLLD Commercial Lighting has many lighting articles and carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

Our home office and lighting design studio is located in Houston, Texas with lighting supply sources located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA).

Commercial Electric Lighting Fixtures

Commercial Electric Lighting fixtures include high intensity discharge lights for parking, landscape, and security lighting, and they also include architectural building lighting that improves corporate branding and provides general lighting for safety and visibility around the physical structure. Commercial electric lighting fixtures should be purchased only after a thorough photometric analysis has been performed on the site. The report this analysis generates will show appropriate lumens levels for various points throughout the property and where best to install luminaires. Consolidating this data first will greatly reduce the problematics and guesswork involved in selecting fixture type, wattages, and manufacturer brand. It will also pass on savings to your client who will be much more inclined to accept a proposal that takes a less is more approach to commercial light fixtures themselves and promises a return on investment through improved lumens output and improved energy efficiency.

Newly developed technologies in high intensity discharge building lighting have now made it possible to offer higher levels of light with lower wattages than ever before. Improved electrical ballast designs and new metal halide pulse start technology have made it possible to produce a much higher level of lumens with fixtures operating at 250 watts or less. Dark sky laws in many cities now mandate a maximum wattage of no more than 250 watts, so proposing this new technology to a client not only offers them the promise of lower power bills, but also ensures compliance with local lighting codes. RLLD Commercial Lighting supplies a full repertoire of HID commercial electric lighting fixtures for every outdoor lighting application.

Parking Lot Lighting
Full cutoff parking lot light are available that feature the latest improvements in optics and reflector technology. These commercial electric parking lot light fixtures are designed with dark sky law compliance and energy savings foremost in mind. Featuring a combination of lower wattage and state of the art, glare free, directional lighting control, these parking lot lights can produce higher footcandle levels with less power. They allow you to both upgrade the quality of lighting in your clientʼs lot and significantly reduce commercial electric bills at the same time.

Landscape and Security Lighting
The most effective landscape exterior lighting systems utilize a combination of high voltage and low voltage lights. The positioning and type of luminaires used varies greatly on the terrain and general size of the property, so there is consequently no hard fast set of commercial electric lighting choices to which the landscape lighting designer is limited. A few general rules of design apply to most landscapes, however, particularly in the area of security lighting. The larger a clientʼs property is, the more it will have dark areas covered by shadows. Floodlights controlled by motion detectors will dispel these areas of darkness if an intruder is sensed by the automated system. They will remain on only long enough to discourage an intruder, and to give security time to respond. This is an excellent way to both protect your clientʼs property and implement a very cost effective form of commercial electric lighting that only operates when needed.

Parking Garage Lighting
RLLD Commercial Lighting has a wide range of commercial warehouse light fixtures designed specifically for parking garage lighting. These fixtures are available in both HID and fluorescent models and are designed to light both horizontal floor space and the vertical cube. The importance of distributing light both horizontally and vertically cannot be overemphasized. Motorists require vertical lighting for proper depth perception and navigation around obstructions such as columns and barricades.

A photometric analysis can quickly pinpoint potential problem areas in your clientʼs parking garage. The goal is not to flood the facility with bright light, but rather to create clear contrast between objects, driving lanes, guard rails, parking spots, and other vehicles. Reading lighting articles and systematically detailing this information first will help you avoid overbidding both the number and intensity of commercial electric light fixtures and also pinpoint optimal installation points for maximum glare free distribution of lighting.

Architectural Building Lights
Lighting a group of corporate buildings may appear a very daunting investment to your clients if they assume that a large number of commercial electric lighting fixtures will be needed to illuminate the structure. Again, as in the case with landscape lights and parking garage lighting, it is not necessary to use very high powered lights to get the job done. Fluorescent wall packs, canopy lights, and sign lights can be used to highlight the most important features on a building and provide visibility for pedestrian traffic around the building at night. Many of these low voltage and highly energy efficient commercial electric lights can reduce power costs for your client by as much as 40%.

All of our commercial electric lights are made here in the U.S.A. As a matter of policy, we work only with major American commercial light manufactures on a non-quota, non-biased distributor basis. This means we have the freedom to recommend the equipment that is most appropriate to your project without having to show preference to a particular brand or fixture type. The cost of the photometric analysis we offer to every client is refunded in full at the time of your equipment purchase, and ongoing support is available over the phone from our team of electrical and commercial lighting design specialists.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial, commercial and athletic sports field lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA)

Commercial Interior Lighting

Interior lighting design often establishes and creates the quality of a commercial environment. Office space depends on the quality of interior lighting to create an ergonomic and motivated workspace that will contribute to higher productivity and profits. Everything from morale to corporate culture can be affected by a change in the interior lighting. We have several lighting case studies that illustrate the values of good lighting. Commercial factories and warehouse facilities rely upon interior lighting directly for manufacturing and shipping. In their world, proper levels of glare free illumination are a necessity for safe and efficient processes. Some environments, such as manufacturing and assembly, rely so heavily on commercial interior lighting that their very survival depends upon its quality.

The best way to approach commercial interior lighting design is to first get a general picture of industry standard needs in this area in order to formulate a basic plan of attack in proposing a new system. This can be accomplished by reading lighting articles or by checking local lighting codes.

Industrial Organizations
Most manufacturing and warehousing operations care little for how a light looks. They are far more concerned with safety and cost effective operations. Commercial interior warehouse lights in these environments play a major role in ergonomics and employee well-being. Any darkness around the building represents major safety concerns to quality assurance. It is your first duty as a contractor in these environments to propose commercial interior lights that will evenly light all of a facilities floor space and provide sufficient foot candles in the vertical cube to allow for material handling tools such as fork trucks to be safely driven through the facility.

It is also necessary to consider the impact that heat can have on a large building. If you install commercial interior lighting fixtures that are inefficient with thermal management designs, HVAC costs will be higher. RLLD Commercial Lighting has a number of fluorescent, induction, and LED interior lighting fixtures specifically designed to operate at cooler temperatures. Thess, combined with their innate power saving designs, helps greatly reduce overhead for industrial clients and can often tip the balance in favor of your proposal.

Please keep in mind that industrial facilities are the most heavily regulated of all buildings, so it is crucial that you ensure that your client will meet with all OSHA and ANSI codes. If your client is interested in obtaining LEED certification, call an RLLD Commercial interior lighting design expert to find out about the latest energy efficient technology ideal for earning points toward a certificate.

Service Based Organizations
Good morale is a necessity ingredient to service based office environments. Commercial interior lighting here should blend the task and the decorative to produce an ergonomically sound as well as decorative quality of light. Normally, you would have to create multiple layers of both direct and indirect light to achieve such an effect, and you have to use a multitude of fixture types, mounts, and lamps.

One great way to minimize the number of actual light fixtures for a small company with a tight budget is to install commercial interior lighting controls. Dimmers and wireless remotes will make lighting customized to personal preference while simultaneously minimizing power consumption. The right commercial lighting controls can turn one set of interior lights into many by programming multiple themes into a central controller. These themes can be activated with wall boxes, and hand-held remotes to create different moods and levels of luminosity.

Retailers
Retail clients require interior lights that render color equivalent to that produced by natural daylight. The reason for this is obvious. Merchandise on the shelf must look as natural and good as possible to sell. Like offices, stores require multiple layers of light. Typically, one level of light illuminates the floor space for customers and staff, and the second layer of light focuses on product merchandising.

It is paramount absolutely essential that you choose the right commercial interior building lighting fixtures that will accomplish these tasks do this as cost effectively as possible. Retail profit margins are normally rather slim, so the more you offer trim a store’s electric, the more readily they will embrace both the technology and the design you propose.

Hospitality Clients
Hotels, country clubs, restaurants, and resorts need you to take an eclectic approach to commercial interior lighting. Virtually every location contains a variety of buildings whose interior architecture varies on a per room basis. Commercial interior lighting is able to create everything from general task lighting to special decorative and associative aesthetic themes. Most hospitality clients also expect you to use lamps, fixtures, mounts and accessories that specifically compliment the decorum and brand of the establishment. Usually, the more removed from mundane reality an organization seeks to be, the more elaborate and eclectic its commercial interior lighting system will need to be.

Lighting Design Services from RLLD Commercial Lighting
Our clients are contractors, architects, and commercial architectural lighting design firms who range from sole proprietors to large corporations. To accommodate this broad range of clients, we have investing in state of the art point by point lighting design software which we will use to help you develop your client’s system at no additional charge provided you purchase your commercial interior lighting fixtures from us. Small companies can appear equal to large ones through this partnership, and large companies can save money on training and staff development by outsourcing schematic design to our experts.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial, commercial and athletic sports field lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for at our RLLD website or lighting blog feel free to contact us at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

Our design studio is located in Houston, Texas with lighting partners located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Sault Ste Marie, MI (CIU), Cleveland, OH, (CLE), College Station, TX (CLL), Port Angeles, WA (CLM), Charlotte, NC (CLT), Columbus, OH (CMH), Champaign, IL (CMI), Hancock, MI (CMX), Cody, WY (COD) and Colorado Springs, CO (COS).

Commercial Lighting Fixtures & Supplies

RLLD Commercial Lighting has thousands of commercial lighting fixtures and lighting products from which contractors can choose, and they are all made in the USA.

Knowing that contractors have to find the right fixture for the right job to win the bid, our job is to find the right commercial lighting product that will do the job right. In order to accomplish this ambitious goal, we have established some very unique manufacturer agreements that allow us to sell commercial lighting products for a wide number of leading American lighting manufacturers, not just one.

As a representative of multiple manufacturers, we can promise you impartiality and professionalism in our recommendation of what commercial lighting products will best fit your requirements. Because we are not required to sell a specific number of any particular models or meet any type of deadline or quota, we can give you multiple options whenever you need help locating the right commercial lighting products for your proposal.

We drop ship commercial site lighting products straight from the factory to your client’s location. This saves time and eliminates parts shortages that often hit distributors who rely upon warehousing for inventory. Our distribution network is nationwide, giving us full access to any commercial lighting product necessary to meet the contractor’s needs, and giving us expeditious delivery power on rush orders in as little as two weeks.

In addition to supplying contractors with commercial lighting products, we also provide them with adjunct commercial lighting services. The most important of these services is a photometric analysis of a client’s facility. This schematic is created with advanced lighting design software and details necessary foot candle levels, fixture placement locations, recommended number of fixtures, and types of lamps optimal for the client’s lighting requirements.

For certain commercial lighting products, such as parking lot lighting poles and fixtures, we provide turnkey installations on a nationwide basis. Ask an RLLD Commercial Lighting Specialist about these services.

Our inventory of commercial lighting products is extensive and includes both indoor and outdoor commercial lighting fixtures. These include, but are no means limited, the following:

· LED Industrial Lights
· Induction Lighting
· Metal Halide Lights
· High Pressure Sodium Lights
· Floodlights
· Wall Packs
· LED Interior Lights
· LED Outdoor Lights
· Fluorescent Light Fixtures
· Parking Lot Lighting
· Solar Powered Street Lighting
· Security Lighting
· Architectural Lighting
· Sign Lighting
· Office Lights
· Lighting Control Systems
· Outdoor Accent Lights
· Landscape Lighting
· Sports Lighting
· Baseball Lights
· Soccer Lights
· Football Lights
· Volleyball Lights and Lighting Kits
· Tennis Court Lights and Lighting Kits
· Commercial Parking Garage Lighting
· Warehouse High Bay Lighting
· Roadway and Highway Lighting

…and a growing selection of many more lighting packages, lighting kits and lighting case studies.

RLLD Commercial Lighting offers all adjunct consultation services to clients on a complimentary basis and charges a small, reasonable fee for contractors seeking paid consulting services on an as need basis. There is a fee for every photometric analysis, but for contractors who buy commercial lighting products from RLLD Commercial, the full fee is subtracted from the purchase order.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA)

Stadium Sports Field Lighting

Stadium athletic field lighting must be installed with several objectives simultaneously in mind. Players must be able to see the ball in play and view the field without shadows or glare impeding visibility. Spectators should be able to look down from the bleachers and see colors clearly and watch the movement of the ball smoothly and continuously. If too few stadium lights are installed, footcandles will be too low to evenly light the vertical cube within the stadium, and the ball will appear to jump from point to point in mid-air. As easy as it may sound to try to resolve this issue simply by installing a larger number of lights, stadiums systems must be planned a bit more carefully than this. Dark Sky laws strictly prohibit light spillage into surrounding neighborhoods now exist in almost every part of the country. Stadium lighting systems must target the light in such a way that it only illuminates desired areas within the stadium and does not generate wasted spill light that will annoy nearby residents and business owners.

The type of stadium lights installed depends greatly upon the skill level of the players and the number of spectators. The greater the number of spectators, the greater the distance they tend to be seated away from the field and the players. This means the lights must brighter and also more precisely aimed in order to minimize glare and light pollution. Many times a facility hosts different types of sports in the same facility, so this can further complicate the demands on the contractor installing a system for multiple events and different sized crowds. By working with RLLD Commercial Lighting experts, measurements of the facility, its annual usage reports, and the general sizes of crowds attending different events can all be factored efficiently into determining the necessary levels of lighting for a small or mid-sized stadium of any size.

With the exception of large professional baseball stadiums beyond the scope of this article, there are only two classifications out of the industry standard four with which we need to concern ourselves: Class 2 Stadium Lighting and Class 3 Stadium Lighting. Class 2 lighting involves illuminating a field containing up to 5,000 spectators. Class 3 addresses the dynamics of lighting stadiums for much smaller crowds, such as those seen at intramural college games and local amateur league games. Class 4 sports lighting really doesnʼt fall into the category of stadium lighting, because it involves recreational and practice fields with limited seating, if any.

With all this to factor into the equation, it is important for even trained professionals to avail themselves of the complimentary consulting and design services offered by RLLD Commercial Lighting. Particularly in respect to environmental concerns, the many codes and regulations that govern light pollution in a given city, town, or county may significantly impact a contractorʼs selection of stadium light fixtures and poles. Saving a step on laborious data mining and cross-referencing local legal requirements to technical features saves time and money in equipment selection, proposal preparation, and installation.

By utilizing our online and phone-based resources, you can very quickly and accurately determine the number of poles you need, the optics required for the correct dispersion of light, luminance levels, and the physical number and mounting heights of the fixtures themselves. Metal halide lamps are the industry standard for stadium lighting systems because they produce a very bright white light that renders color at a near equivalence to natural light. RLLD Commercial Lighting poles can be wooden, steel, or concrete and are available in a variety of heights and degrees of decorative aesthetics. Although stainless steel poles are the most common at this point, many facilities are beginning to replace them with centrifugally spun concrete poles.
Again, it is best to confer with an RLLD Commercial lighting expert when selecting stadium lighting poles. Our team has detailed wind load charts on every region of the country and can inform DIY electrical installers and lighting specialists of all EPA regulatory codes pertaining to a particular poles wind resistance capacity.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial, commercial and athletic sports field lighting fixtures. Here is a partial lighting of some of those lighting fixture packages:

• Tennis Court Lighting
• Skateboard Park Lighting
• Football Field Lighting
• Polo Field Lighting

If you can not find a lighting case study you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including San Juan, PR (SJU), Isla De Vieques, PR (VQS), Fajardo, PR (X95), Erie, PA (ERI), Killeen, TX (ILE), Sheridan, WY (SHR), Casper, WY (CPR), Parkersburg, WV (PKB), and Escanaba, MI (ESC). We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Commercial Tree Lighting Designs

You can improve any landscape with tree lighting provided the property has trees sufficiently large enough to conceal mercury vapor lights in the branches and leaves. As a commercial landscape lighting contractor who is quite possibly competing against much larger firms, you can give yourself an enormous competitive advantage by offering this simple, elegant lighting technique.

Specification grade mercury vapor lights that feature superior commercial grade engineering and photometrics are the best fixtures to use as tree lights. They radiate a blue-white luminance that looks almost identical to moonlight. When concealed from the observer’s frame of reference, and if installed in an environmentally sensitive manner that avoids harming the trees, lights of this nature can add both aesthetic and functional lighting elements to a host of institutions and businesses.

Municipal Parks
If you are bidding for a contract that involves park lighting and landscaping a municipal park, you definitely want to propose tree lights. Contractors who can arguably demonstrate that this aspect of park lighting will make the park both safer and more popular have a very strong chance of closing the deal regardless of price.

Because people want to feel safe when they visit the park at night, lighting up the shadows under the trees allows less opportunity for criminal mischief. It also “multiplies” moonlight exponentially according to the number of trees you light. Most benches and pathways lie either adjacent to or directly under large trees. Moonlight walks in these places will not have to depend on weather conditions or the phase of the moon at a given time of the month because outdoor commercial tree lighting provides the same romantic and sentimental qualities on a continuing, unchanging basis.

Academic Institutions
Helping a school attract higher enrollment is an excellent way to win their business, especially if they are a relatively young institution, or a community college.

Lighting up the larger trees on the landscape makes the school look more “Old World”, and it plays upon the perception many people have that the best schools are the oldest schools. When the oldest and largest trees are fitted with mercury vapor lights, the entirety of their form is illuminated throughout the night and appears surreal, larger than life, and classical in form.

Commercial Properties
If your forte is commercial lighting design, offer to make a business appear more reputable and conscientious by installing tree lights.

If you are proposing a lighting fixture system for a new company, tell them the same thing you would tell a learning institution: people associate time in business with experience and skill. . New companies can greatly benefit from looking “older” than they really are. Tree lights will also improve outdoor security lighting by eliminating shadows under the trees where vandals and burglars may otherwise try to hide.

You can also propose to make your client appear environmentally friendly for the sake of public image. Illuminating landscaping and trees around the building helps harmonize buildings with the landscape and suggests a certain sympathetic relationship with Nature that works very well for branding and marketing purposes in a grown Earth conscious marketplace.

Hospitality Services
Helping high-end facilities attract and entertain more guests represents a sizeable amount of money for any client working in hospitality services. For something as relatively low cost as tree lighting, the return on investment is something that you can depend on to make a strong, good impression on the client.

Because these industries must attract present people with the allure of a more refined, sensible, and better reality, showcasing the natural beauty of trees unconsciously suggests an excursion into Paradise. Palm trees at resorts will glow with a luminous aura throughout the night, and tree lights concealed in branches overhanging outdoor patios add romantic accent lighting for outdoor dining and live music. Any country club with large trees adjacent to the clubhouse window will have better visibility into the exterior, because the down light coming from branches overhead filters through the glass just enough to dispel the reflective glare of interior restaurant lighting.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial landscape lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you or visit our about us page or lighting blog for further information.

Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA).

Commercial Site Lighting Design

When developing a site lighting system, the most important thing to keep foremost in mind at all times is lumens per watt efficiency. As energy costs rise to staggering new levels, new laws are now requiring a .15 watt per square foot maximum for outdoor site lights. This makes it necessary to select fixtures that are more efficient and to pay closer attention to site geometry in order to pinpoint the best locations for fixture placement. Regulations have also become much stricter on regulating glare and lighting pollution. Cheaper area lighting fixtures that are unable to shield from glare or to prevent light spillage not only represent an aesthetic disappointment to most clients, but also create a nuisance to neighbors and a possible safety hazard to drivers. By choosing from only specification grade equipment, propose a system that is aesthetically pleasing, economically viable, and fully compliant with regulatory codes.

PARKING LOT LIGHTING
Parking lot lights are critical elements of site lighting and must balance the practical demands of safe lighting levels, aesthetics, energy efficiency, and regulatory compliance in order to be truly effective. Higher light poles tend to light larger areas, helping keep the facility in compliance with energy efficiency codes. This must be balanced, however, against any local dark sky laws that limit pole height to a maximum height. As a general rule, it is almost always a better idea to use cut off fixtures designs with tempered glass lenses and reflectors formed from specular facets for commercial outdoor lighting. These luminaires do a better job of keeping glare at a minimum and dispersing light over greater distances, keeping power consumption down while simultaneously increasing the total square footage they illuminate.

ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING LIGHTING
When it comes to lighting building structures themselves, site lighting must accent the building without overpowering its architecture. In order to accomplish this, it is necessary to light only the most significant features of a building rather than the whole building itself. This helps to curb energy expenses and to minimize light pollution. It also creates a secondary effect of accenting that which is truly important about a particular buildings design, and it represents savings as well on the number of luminaires necessary for a truly superior outcome.

A few areas require the special focus of the site lighting designer. The building entrance itself needs vertical light over the vestibule or front door, and any signs on the building itself will require emphasis in order to advertise company branding. Columns require light in order to maintain the buildingʼs sense of balance and proportion, and anything positioned on the rooftop will need its own special light as well.

Light fixture locations and angle of incidence is the key to success when it comes to building exterior lighting. The more you can hide the light source, the more you can create a more aesthetic sense of seemingly sourceless light that makes the structure stand out. Wall packs, canopy lights, roof mounted lights, and a wide selection of sign lights can be installed in strategic locations so as to make them virtually invisible to the casual viewer.

LANDSCAPE SITE LIGHTING
The significance of the landscape to a site lighting theme depends on three things: site geometry itself, amount of actual greenery, and the type of industry. Some businesses such as retail strip centers and shopping malls have very little greenery, so outdoor landscape lighting takes the forms of low voltage step lights or garden lights around trees and flower beds. On the other hand, elaborate corporate campuses with park like areas require a bit more attention and almost always synthesize general landscape lighting with security perimeter lighting. They trick here again is to highlight features of the landscape rather than light then entire area. Pathways and decorative benches can be lit quite cost effectively with fluorescent lighting bollards. Low voltage halogen lights can be used to accent waterways, commemorative statues, ponds, and fountains. Decorative light posts and ornamental fixtures can be used to create historical themes or aesthetic keynotes in key locations without overkill or over spending.

RLLD Commercial Lighting not only provides detailed information on these and many other subjects free of charge to all of our clients, but also publishes information on new technology and industry trends to all who enroll in our online community program. Contact us now for more information.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial, commercial and architectural landscape lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for on our website, our lighting blog you can contact us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., New Orleans, La., Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Mesa, Arizona, Virginia Beach, Va., Omaha, Nebraska, Oakland, California, Miami, Florida, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arlington, Texas, Beaumont, Texas, Denton, TX, McKinney, Texas, Midland, TX, Killeen, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Commercial High Mast Concrete Lighting Poles

Concrete light poles have been the subject of a surge of recent popularity among site developers, civil engineers, architects, and general contractors. Communities have begun to realize that concrete, in spite of its reputation as a purely industrial substance, can be molded into a light pole that in all respects is aesthetically superior to carbonized steel and more resistant to corrosion, collision, and vandalism. The wide diversity of decorative styles, colors, and variety of geometric designs make concrete parking lot light poles one of the most versatile items you can add to a proposal or site development plan, and the extra strength they offer makes them a recession proof, maintenance free investment that will last much longer than steel or wood equivalents. RLLD Commercial inventories an multitude of designs, styles, mounts, and heights to anticipate the many needs of parks, sports facilities, educational institutes, research facilities, corporate office parks, churches, and retail centers.

Concrete light poles provide a number of competitive advantages over carbonized steel that benefit both the contractor and the client. Outdoor concrete lighting poles are much easier to install, and they can be mount in either the ground or in base mounts bolted to concrete surfaces. This makes them extremely versatile and much more appropriate for environments where natural terrain and human architecture intermingle. For example, a country club will often feature elaborate landscaping in front of the club house, through which a driveway runs leading up to the clubhouse. Portions of this landscape may contain sidewalks or a rotunda area with seating around a small fountain. Concrete light poles that feature the same basic model design and finish color, but also measure different heights, can be used to light both the roadway and the landscape with an aesthetically harmonious and more balanced presentation than carbonized steel poles would generally offer.

This fusion of function and form is critical for high-end lighting projects where an establishment’s presence and visual image is tightly intertwined with its operations and purposes. The greater choice in decorative freedom offered by concrete parking lot lighting fixtures & poles makes them appropriate additions to the landscapes and parking areas around any facility known for sophistication and fine taste. Architects designing museums, five star hotels, renowned restaurants, and resorts can match certain architectural keynotes to the geometric patterns reflected in our many pole commercial lighting designs. In some scenarios, this actually works to extend certain themes prevalent in building architecture into surrounding general site lighting. This is also a very effective method of establishing a sense of authority and power around certain structures such as administration offices, government buildings, and courthouses.

Because concrete poles do not corrode, they do not need to be replaced like metal poles that rust. The concrete utilized to make light poles is much stronger than steel, and it is also stronger than the typical concrete you walk on. It is in fact compacted concrete that is cast at high temperatures around a steel core. As the material cools, it compresses into a sturdy, flexible mount that is capable of withstanding high wind speeds. In fact, the law requires that lighting poles that are over 50 feet in height must be made from concrete. Metal—even the strongest of carbonized steel—cannot maintain stability in high winds at this altitude. Concrete lighting poles are the only options in these environments, which is why sports, amusement parks, and public recreation areas use concrete lighting poles to ensure full compliance with AASHTO, ACI, ASTM and UBC loading requirements.

Finally, because the surface of compressed concrete is so hard, it is also almost impossible to deface. Areas prone to heavy vandalism should strongly consider the cost effectiveness of something that will withstand even a deliberate attempt at sabotage. If you would like more information about the benefits of concrete lighting poles, call an RLLD Commercial Lighting design specialist. Serious inquiries and clients receive complimentary consultation, and casual inquiries can be answered for a small, reasonable fee.

RLLD has several lighting case studies illustrating a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixture applications. If you can not find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 or visit our extensive lighting blog for alternates and we will find them for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA

Commercial Gooseneck Outdoor Lights

Gooseneck lights are great fixtures to propose to clients who want functionality combined with aesthetics. These commercial grade lights can be installed both indoors and outdoors to fulfill both aesthetic and practical demands. If your client has a sign near the front entrance of the property, a gooseneck lamp is an excellent way to highlight the company brand and provide continuous advertising 7 nights a week. Homeowners associations also favor goose neck lights because of their sheik design and ability to decoratively highlight ornamentation at the entrance to subdivisions and exclusive neighborhoods. Hotels and restaurants rely upon these commercial lighting fixtures, because advertising their brand is not only subliminal, but also a conscious, deliberate invitation to the public at large.

Of course, one can find a goose neck lamp in a hardware store, or a wholesale parts depot with a catalogue style website. What makes our gooseneck lights significantly superior to these retail or foreign-manufactured products is the quality of materials that goes into making each lamp and the place of origin itself. RLLD commercial decorative lighting sells no imported parts or lighting equipment whatsoever under any circumstances. All products are made in the U.S.A and feature specification grade components, engineering design, and written warranties to guarantee the work. When it comes to lighting their corporate brand or signifying the location of a club, hotel, or restaurant, the last thing your client wants is a fixture that is going to burn out on the night that the VIP shows up. Installing something that is built to last now will save time, money, and possible embarrassment in the future.

Because RLLD architectural lighting designers works in close partnerships with the top lighting fixture manufacturers in the United States, we can supply you with gooseneck lights of any size, style, color, or finish option you need to differentiate your client’s facility and add an extra touch of functional light in key places when so called upon. Our professional staff will listen closely to your requirements and perform a photometric lighting analysis of your client’s site. The report this analysis generates will show what areas on the property and inside the building need specific levels of light, and it will also show us how to achieve those lighting levels with the most cost effective equipment possible. This makes it much easier to choose goose neck lights as complimentary pieces to an overall lighting theme, using them as a supporting aesthetic to an overall “look” that simultaneously performs a specific task that is vital to company image.

Because we sell not only commercial lighting products, but also commercial landscape lighting accessories, we can also provide you with equipment to wall mount a goose neck lamp to the side of a building to illuminate a company’s logo or service. This is a favorite outdoor lighting method among manufacturers who prefer to take a very Spartan approach to decorating factories and warehouses, but nonetheless want what fixtures they do install on and around their building to look attractive and produce a high quality of light. Goose neck lights are made from aluminum and are well suited to this purpose. Their light weight makes them easy to mount on any building surface, and their sturdy construction makes them highly weather resistant.

We can also equip you goose neck lighting that are designed for interior as well as commercial exterior lighting. Many new office buildings often feature rather eclectic interior architecture in the foyer and around the front desk. Many of these settings look ultra-modern and a bit too sophisticated for standard lighting. Wall mounted goose neck fixtures can be substituted for traditional floor and desk lighting near chairs and couches in the waiting areas…giving your client’s clients a new light to read by. They can also replace less sophisticated over the picture lights that have previously been used to light fine artwork and photograph. Halogen bulbs in these lighting not only produce excellent white light with superb color rendering for sign lighting and gateway lighting, but they also render color in paintings and prints exceptionally well, provided the light is properly filtered and controlled.

RLLD Commercial Lighting has actual lighting case studies on a wide variety of industrial, commercial and athletic sports field lighting fixture applications. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA).

Outdoor Canopy Lighting Fixtures

Canopy lights are ideal for providing light for pedestrian traffic around a building at night and for providing security lighting around the building. They are heavily used by industrial facilities that operate late at night, such as factories with round the clock production, or warehouses that need light for after hours shipping and receiving. Other businesses that rely heavily on outdoor commercial canopy lighting are grocery stores and filling stations. Retail strip centers also occasionally use these fixtures to illuminate the walkway that runs in front of a group of stores. In the non-business sector, they are also very common in public schools and covered walkways on college campuses, and you tend to see them a lot around civic centers and public recreation facilities as well.

It is important to determine first the foot candle density your client needs around the building or underneath the awing that you plan to light. Many people assume that the brighter the canopy lights, the better. This is not the case, however. If the lights under a gas station canopy are too bright, motorists cannot steer safely between the pumps, and the glare from the lights makes it hard for them to see when they drive away. The same thing can happen to people parking near an awning with canopy lights that are too intense. They too will have trouble parking, and be temporarily blinded by too much light. It is important therefore to get a photometric analysis from RLLD Commercial Lighting that will tell you exactly how much architectural illumination your client needs under that awning or canopy. We can then help you choose a lamp whose lumens output will create the optimal footcandle density without generating excess light pollution in the process. Frosted lens covers may be necessary to make certain that the light is bright, but diffused so that too much of it doesn’t hit the eyes. This is normally advisable any time you install canopy lights near a covered parking area. Other glare shielding options should be considered based upon the type of facility you are servicing and where the fixtures are installed. Your specialist can help you with all necessary calculations to determine the exact fixture type and model you need.

There are some other important considerations to take into account when choosing canopy lighting fixtures for your client’s location. One is the light source itself. Your clients will have end up facing unexpected costs if they are not equipped with the best fixtures with the longest anticipated lifespan. We recommend that with very few exceptions you propose canopy lights that are energy efficient and feature lives of at least 10,000 hours. A variety of lamp types are available through our online store that fit this criteria, including HID high pressure sodium and metal halide lights. We also carry mercury vapor canopy commercial lights, but these have been outlawed in certain places like Arizona and some states along the Eastern Seaboard. If you are in one of these areas, we recommend substituting either HID metal halides (it normally tends to output a “whiter” light than HPS) or canopy lights with fluorescent lamps that have frosted lenses and are excellent sources of bright, glare free lighting.

Two more important things to keep in mind when choosing canopy or area lights for your clients are: voltage options and the resiliency of the light fixtures themselves. Non profits, city governments, churches, and schools have very thigh operating budgets and can benefit greatly from the reduced costs that low voltage lighting can bring them. At the same time, many of these facilities, due to ignorance and a general lack of enlightenment among mob elements in our society, are often targets of deliberate criminal mischief and vandalism. To help protect your clients, ask your RLLD Commercial Lighting representative about vandal proof fixtures that are impervious to the force of typical assaults on property and equipment.

All consultation services offered by our team, as well as photometric analyses of client sites, are free to clients and serious inquirers. Casual inquiries can receive the same level of service for a small, reasonable fee.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures as well as lighting blog information. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our lighting design practice and office is located in Houston, Texas with stocking warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including San Juan, PR (SJU), Isla De Vieques, PR (VQS), Fajardo, PR (X95), Erie, PA (ERI), Killeen, TX (ILE), Sheridan, WY (SHR), Casper, WY (CPR), Parkersburg, WV (PKB), and Escanaba, MI (ESC). We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Commercial Lighting Design

RLLD Commercial Lighting design services are intended to provide adjunct support to the contractor to expedite the planning stages of a proposal, to help the client and the contractor get more for their monies worth, and to implement a systematic, precision approach to procurement that minimizes the margin of error in selecting the right fixtures for the right job. Professional commercial lighting design companies have come to rely upon RLLD Commercial Lightingʼs design experts as a virtual extension of their marketing and sales teams. RLLD Commercial Lighting designers and account managers proactively assist in developing solutions for commercial lighting clients, designing entire systems from the ground up so the contractor can save man hours on calculations and schematics and focus more energy on negotiations to win the bid.

We are able to deliver this service to our clients because of very high-end, proprietary commercial lighting design software we have purchased to create photometric modeling. This software allows us to take the answers to a few basic questions we ask you about your clientʼs site and facility and input that data into our computers. Our suite of design programs then interprets this data and renders a complete photometric analysis of your clients building and surrounding property. This valuable schematic details such critical factors in lighting design and mandatory foot candle minimums for parking areas and outdoor recreation areas. It also shows the best positions to install fixtures to achieve these lighting levels, and it shows the best ways to mount these fixtures for optimal results.

This approach to commercial indoor lighting design is an excellent way to win a bid in the midst of a recession. Its focus on precision purchasing as opposed to bulk purchasing takes a realistic approach to equipment itemization and costs. RLLD Commercial Lighting believes you should design a system with no more and no less fixtures than are absolutely necessary to meet the needs of your client. While in the past making such an exact determination may have meant hours of painstaking calculations, this is no longer the case today. With a photometric analysis, you can literally see where the lights need to go and quickly determine the exact nature of the fixtures your client will need by asking three basic questions:

1. Where is the fixture located?
2. What does the fixture light?
3. How is the fixture mounted?

If you still cannot determine the ideal fixture after looking at each of these three factors, your commercial architectural lighting design specialist can recommend commercial grade and specification grade fixture options that will bring superior results to your clientʼs table. We have a vast inventory of HID lights, including the new pulse start metal halide lights that feature some of the most advanced reflectors and optics in the lighting industry. Such engineering is critical if you are working in an area heavily regulated by lighting control regulations and dark sky laws. Proposing fixtures that are made specifically for better directional control of lighting and glare reduction puts your client in the best possible light without annoying nearby residents and business owners with light pollution.

RLLD Commercial Lighting design experts can also outfit your proposal with the latest energy saving outdoor fluorescent lighting fixtures and outdoor commercial lighting equipment. This will work wonders for your clientʼs operations budget, cutting costs without sacrificing the quality of amount of illumination in the process. We also carry an entire selection of high-tech energy efficient commercial lights designed for maximum power conservation. We have induction lighting for indoor and outdoor commercial lighting, and LED light designed for commercial outdoor lighting, parking lot lighting, street lighting, area lighting, and commercial indoor lighting.

All of our commercial lights are designed and manufactured in the United States. No foreign manufactured products will ever darken our invoice. RLLD Commercial Lighting believes in supporting and recession proofing the American manufacturer as well as the American commercial lighting design specialist. All adjunct parking lot lighting design services are free as well to clients and serious inquirers, and they are also available for a reasonable fee to casual inquirers and those in need of occasional assistance.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our lighting design studio and office is located in Houston, Texas with stocking warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including San Juan, PR (SJU), Isla De Vieques, PR (VQS), Fajardo, PR (X95), Erie, PA (ERI), Killeen, TX (ILE), Sheridan, WY (SHR), Casper, WY (CPR), Parkersburg, WV (PKB), and Escanaba, MI (ESC). We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Commercial Parking Lot Lighting

Commercial Parking Lot lights have become increasingly more regulated over the years and require expert knowledge beyond electrical expertise to properly configure and install. For many years, the bulk of regulatory codes mandated foot candle minimums for commercial parking lots lights to produce in order to make certain that parked cars were not obscured in shadows and to provide motorists with enough light to see. Over time, however, more laws were passed to minimize glare that can distract drivers and cause accidents. Then, the most recent round of legislation has now swept the nation from coast to coast, not only mandating that all commercial outdoor parking lot lights not only to produce a certain number of footcandles and a minimum amount of glare, but also more tightly regulating the direction of light itself so as to it to parking areas only without spilling into neighboring streets, homes, and businesses.

To light a commercial parking lot effectively, even with standard luminaires and light poles, often requires the contractor to precisely match features and optics to mandated parameters of a given environment. Additional factors like wind load capacities of poles and the various methods of plotting optimal footcandle levels either require a great deal of time doing math or the assistance of a vendor with access to special charts and software. By coming to us, the designer, builder, or DIY electrical contractor has the ability to save multiple steps and to obtain whatever is necessary to get the job done safely, legally, and effectively.

Expeditious Lead Time on Basic Lighting Fixtures
RLLD Commercial lighting offers over s dozens of competitively priced, standard model commercial parking lot lights. Basic designs for commercial parking lot light fixtures range from cutoff, flood, parabolic design, and aerodynamic models. Standard parking lot lights offer a very no-nonsense, straightforward approach to lighting retail parking lots, industrial sites, small office parks, commercial driveways, and strip center parking areas. RLLD Commercial Lighting adds value to competitive price by providing the fastest lead time in the industry on shipping and delivery of standard commercial parking lot lighting equipment. This further saves time and labor costs by allowing for a quick, seamless installation of all commercial parking lot lighting equipment.

Although standard commercial parking lot lighting case studies represent the mid-range of the price spectrum, they are made with a number of optical advantages that generate precise directional lighting control. This is becoming increasingly important throughout the country as more and more municipalities pass tougher dark sky laws to prevent light pollution in parking lots and commercial centers from spilling into roadways and neighboring homes. By working with a vendor such as RLLD Commercial Lighting architects, designers, builders, and electricians obtain the additional benefit of complimentary, expert knowledge on whether or not a particular luminaire will prove compliant to the standards of the proposed location in any given community.

Specification Grade Commercial Parking Lot Lights
Because so many large corporations, hotels, country clubs, resorts, and exclusive neighborhoods prefer to take a more sophisticated approach to site lighting design, RLLD Commercial also provides is many clients with an enormous range of specification grade parking luminaires engineered specifically for the professional bidding high-end jobs. Architects, city planners, general contractors, and commercial developers are just a few of the industries representative of our expanding client base that needs the highest rating in commercial grade parking lot lighting equipment and the most reliable performance simultaneously concomitant to aesthetics and function. Our selection features over 100 designs that range in lamp wattages from 70-400W, and eight distinctive styles that allow for a diversity of lighting commercial parking lot designs and applications. With both horizontal and vertical lamps to choose from, and a total of seven light distributions in both sharp cutoff and wide angle design, these fixtures can be used for much more than commercial parking lot lighting. Because they represent the finest grade materials and most sophisticated engineering, they can also be used to light roadways, corporate plazas, parks, and large commercial centers.

RLLD Commercial Lighting company carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial parking lot lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Sault Ste Marie, MI (CIU), Cleveland, OH, (CLE), College Station, TX (CLL), Port Angeles, WA (CLM), Charlotte, NC (CLT), Columbus, OH (CMH), Champaign, IL (CMI), Hancock, MI (CMX), Cody, WY (COD) and Colorado Springs, CO (COS).

Commercial Exterior Lighting Designs

The wide range of vertical markets that require commercial exterior lighting for safety, functionality, and aesthetic compliment require a luminaire source that is robust, flexible, energy efficient, and easy to install and maintenance. One of the greatest benefits contractors receive from working with RLL Design is the assurance that our staff will diligently help them fit the best possible commercial lighting fixture to exterior building areas and surrounding property on site. Contractors who rely upon RLL Design as their preferred source of commercial exterior landscape lighting fixtures have more options to build proposals with and more delivery power to a broad spectrum of clients in corporate, municipal, academic, industrial, and hospitality markets.

Area Lighting for Commercial Exteriors
RLL Design offers a large number of area lighting fixtures that bring competitive advantage to the bidding table. These area lights are available in both horizontal and vertical lamp orientation fitted with your choice of lamp types and reflectors that will create any number of commercial exterior lighting effects without glare or light pollution. Many aluminum commercial exterior parking lot lights can be ordered in either flat or concave lenses for complimentary lighting of commercial exterior architecture and general outdoor areas. All commercial exterior site lights are designed to achieve full cutoff in full compliance with standards laid out by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA).

RLLD Commercial exterior lights will also save your clients money on maintenance and replacement costs. Top access housings make lamps easy for end users to access and replace when necessary, reducing exorbitant time and labor costs on periodic maintenance. Lenses are sealed to prevent moisture, dust, and insects from entering the fixtures, thus extending a high quality of light output for the life of the lamp.

Floodlighting
These commercial exterior lights feature superior beam adjustment for more precise aiming of light and variation of beam diameter. Complex reflector designs make these commercial exterior lights capable of creating any number of multi-dimensional lighting effects, giving your proposal a strong competitive advantage when bidding a commercial landscape or high-end resort facility. The diversity of style we offer you brings an added benefit of aesthetic compliment to lighting systems that require more than basic functionality to win the bid.

RLL Design floodlights are made from the toughest commercial grade materials and are designed to endure the elements regardless of climate or geography. They are available in all HID lighting sources including commercial fluorescent lights.

Canopy & Ceiling Mounted
RLL Design canopy and ceiling mounted commercial exterior lights feature specific designs for specific applications. This allows you to propose more options to a greater diversity of clients, as virtually any type of facility can be equipped with one or more of these custom luminaires. Choose from commercial exterior ceiling lights made specifically for parking garages, overhanging canopies in retail areas and filling stations, flush mounted recessed models that offer a low-profile installation for corporate headquarters, and fixtures designed especially for pedestrian walkways and building perimeters in civic centers and lighting public sites.

Your clients can expect to pay lower power bills and enjoy hours of glare free lighting. Maintenance is simple and does not require a professional contractor, because many fixtures can be relamped by staff personnel from the ground. Clients will not only benefit from the low-profile and custom aesthetics these commercial warehouse lights add to their site lighting, but they will also appreciate the do-it-yourself maintenance savings that our fixtures offer over more competing models too complex for the end user to service without a contractor’s help.

Wall Mounted Commercial Exterior Lights
Wall mounted lights supplied by RLL Design add value to your invoice with more mounting options and more aesthetic compliments to buildings of any size and architectural design. Our inventory offers up lights, down lights, and hybrid models for simultaneous up lighting and down lighting with full cutoff distribution of light. Both HID and fluorescent lamping options are available for most of our fixture designs, allowing you the ability to address both security concerns and power savings in your commercial exterior lighting system.

RLL Design wall mounted lighting fixtures are designed for maximum aesthetic presentation as well, representing a number of sheik and aerodynamic builds that not only light commercial exteriors superbly during evening hours, but also offer complimentary design to building architectural keynotes during daylight hours. Fixtures can also be installed in such a manner as to extend the light beyond the building perimeters to provided additional security and safety lighting for outdoor gathering areas, walkways, and lighting parking lot boundaries.

Clients who are seeking to obtain LEED certificates will greatly benefit from the energy efficiency that characterizes RLLD commercial exterior wall mounted lighting fixtures. You as a contractor will benefit as well with a diverse range of size options that will allow you to develop commercial exterior decorative lighting systems for multi-building campuses such as schools, municipal centers, country clubs, and resorts. Regardless of the size of the building you are illuminating, the same style fixture can be installed in sizes that appropriately compliment building size without having to compromise consistency in the process.

Strip Lighting for Commercial Exteriors
RLL Design commercial exterior strip lights feature glare and shadow free lighting optimized for a variety of important commercial environments. Retail clients need extra lighting on their signage to attract customers. Building entrances need a reliable, continuous, and cost competitive source of evenly distributed light around the entrance to the doorway. Buildings with the company logo painted on the side require vertical exterior lighting to properly showcase their brand. Humid climates require specialty vapor light fixtures to withstand wet atmospheric conditions. Multi-colored building exteriors and canopies require an exceptionally large beam spread, often as high as 48” in diameter.

When you build your proposal with RLL Design commercial exterior strip lights, you can meet the needs of any or all of these vertical markets with cost competitive energy ratings, superior functional light, and appropriate aesthetic compliment to virtually any commercial exterior you service.

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RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures and we have photometric calculations and actual lighting case studies posted for your review and information. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Sault Ste Marie, MI (CIU), Cleveland, OH, (CLE), College Station, TX (CLL), Port Angeles, WA (CLM), Charlotte, NC (CLT), Columbus, OH (CMH), Champaign, IL (CMI), Hancock, MI (CMX), Cody, WY (COD) and Colorado Springs, CO (COS).

Commercial Area Lighting Concepts

Lumen per watt efficiency has now become the number one consideration in the design and installation of an area lighting system. As energy costs continue to affect pricing across the board, new laws are now going into effect that will require a .05 watt per square foot maximum for outdoor area lights. This requires you, the contractor, to pay closer attention to area geometry. You now must carefully pinpoint optimal fixture placement locations, and you have to choose fixtures that will deliver more light with less consumption of electricity.

Regulations on glare and light pollution are also getting tougher. Commercial light fixtures made overseas are usually incapable of shielding the eyes from glare or preventing light spillage into surrounding homes and businesses. Only premium, commercial grade area lights that are manufactured here in the United States can give you the assurance of full compliance with dark sky laws and the warranted protection on equipment that guarantees minimized maintenance and replacement costs for your clients.

PARKING LOT LIGHTS
Parking lot lights and lighting poles are two of the most essential elements of area lighting. Commercial parking lot lighting is also heavily regulated in reference to foot candle levels and limitations on the amount of glare produced by the fixtures. High lighting poles tend to illuminate larger areas, helping keep the areaʼs overall lighting in compliance with foot candle requirements and energy efficiency codes. At the same time, you have to be careful not to use light poles that are too tall. Almost every city has dark sky laws that limit pole height to a maximum height. The key to balancing these apparently contradictory legal requirements is to use cut off luminaire designs with tempered glass lenses and reflectors formed from specular facets. These industrial lighting pole fixtures are intended to keep glare levels to a minimum and to disperse light over greater distances. They also keep power consumption at a minimum while simultaneously increasing the total square footage they illuminate.

ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING LIGHTING
When lighting buildings for your client, area lighting fixtures must accent the architecture without overwhelming it. Ideally, they should accentuate only the most important features of a building instead of the entire building itself. This will curb energy expenses and eliminate light pollution, and it will also create a secondary effect of keynoting what is truly important to a particular structure with a less is more approach to luminaire installation.

Installing light fixtures at the ideal angles of incidence will determine the overall effectiveness of building area lighting. You must hide the light source as much as possible to create a well-rounded aesthetic presentation of the building. A wide selection of choices in wattages, luminaire mounts, reflectors, and cut off designs are available to can be install practically any size or type of fixture in strategic locations so as to make them virtually invisible to the casual viewer.

LANDSCAPE AREA LIGHTING
Similar to building lighting, commercial landscape area lighting should be approached with a less is more consideration in mind. They key here again is to illuminate features of the landscape rather than the entire property---which for very large businesses may be dozens, or even hundreds, of acres. Pathways and decorative benches can be lit quite cost effectively with fluorescent lighting bollards. Low voltage halogen fixtures can be very effective in accenting waterways, commemorative statues, ponds, and fountains. Decorative commercial lighting posts with ornamental fixtures are often chose to create historical themes or aesthetic elements in key locations without overkill or over spending.

RLLD Commercial Lighting not only provides detailed information on these and many other subjects free of charge to all of our clients, but also publishes information on new technology and industry trends to all who enroll in our online community program. Contact us now for more information or visit our comprehensive archives of lighting case studies.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our commercial sdesign studio is located in Houston, Texas with manufacturers located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Sault Ste Marie, MI (CIU), Cleveland, OH, (CLE), College Station, TX (CLL), Port Angeles, WA (CLM), Charlotte, NC (CLT), Columbus, OH (CMH), Champaign, IL (CMI), Hancock, MI (CMX), Cody, WY (COD) and Colorado Springs, CO (COS).

Outdoor Architectural Lighting Designers

To stay one step ahead of your competitors in today’s increasingly regulated marketplace of architectural lighting design, you must focus on service beyond customer service. This may sound rather odd thing if you are a contractor who takes pride in exceeding client expectations and relies on customer service to win bids. It is not odd of you consider the fact that your service alone to the client will end when the system is finished, and the client probably hopes you will not have to return with a labor invoice for additional service fees for maintenance and replacements. The type of lighting design service that today’s clients want comes not so much from you (although courtesy and professionalism are always a given in business), but rather equipment and solutions that serve them every evening when the doors close and the lights come on.

A system proposed along these principles of architectural outdoor lighting design is something of an intuitive beast that anticipates expectations on two levels. In one sense, it reliably performs without mishap on a consistent basis in accordance with how it is intended to perform. In another sense, superior architectural lighting design anticipates strict government regulations that are sure to tighten up even more in the years to come as public demand mandates greener technology both in terms of power costs and material builds associated with equipment manufacture.

To rise as a leader in architectural area lighting design, you have to think ahead, and you have to install equipment that in spite of its lack of “thinking” ability, behaves like it can think and fulfills the expectations of clients, governing authorities, and surrounding citizenry alike.

To achieve this level of excellence is no small task. You must take either take extraordinary measures to design an architectural lighting system, or you must work in partnership with a vendor who already has. Architectural lighting design on this level requires investing in very expensive photometric modeling software that most small companies and freelance contractors simply cannot afford, but desperately need nevertheless to develop site lighting and exterior lighting proposals that simultaneously speak to cost consciousness, governing authorities, employee morale, branding and advertising, and power conservation. Without these kinds of tools, working out all the math and angles of incidence necessary to determine wattage, voltage, foot candle densities, required LPW, and CRI index, can cost more money than it makes you at the end of the day.

Rather than putting yourself and your clients through all of this, consider the advantages of working with a vendor like RLLD Commercial Lighting that has already spent the money on architectural lighting design software so you won’t have to, and who will offer its full functionality to any client at no additional costs to the price of the equipment you buy. If you are a family-owned business, you can compete with large architectural firms and lighting designers that previously out competed you because they had access to resources you lacked. If you are a large organization who is capable of purchasing such suite of programs, don’t. You will have to hire additional staff, pay for training, and wait longer than you want to for results.

Let our staff assist you with the process of turning conceptual, intuitive architectural lighting design into a scientific, mathematically sound schematic of the actual hardware to be used and the recommended positions of every light fixture and lamp in the system. Not only will such a partnership save you time by streamlining the proposal development process, but it will also make your line items more precisely targeted toward the long term objectives of energy code compliance, reduced maintenance and replacement costs, light pollution control, and optimal aesthetic compliments that any client can justifiably and reasonably expect from their investment in architectural lights.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures and we have an extensive array of lighting case studies to back up our recommendations. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

Our architectural landscape lighting design office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Sault Ste Marie, MI (CIU), Cleveland, OH, (CLE), College Station, TX (CLL), Port Angeles, WA (CLM), Charlotte, NC (CLT), Columbus, OH (CMH), Champaign, IL (CMI), Hancock, MI (CMX), Cody, WY (COD) and Colorado Springs, CO (COS).

Architectural Landscape Lighting Designs

Architectural landscape lighting must unite the man made with the natural in a way that is compliant with regulatory codes and cost effective for your clients. While landscape lighting itself consists of a focus on illuminating and magnifying points of interest in the natural scenery, architectural area lighting creates the sense that buildings and technology are in harmony with Nature and established a more unified presentation to anyone viewing the facility at night.

Creating an architectural landscape lighting system that will remain true to this intention without costing additional money down the line requires a great deal of planning and research to determine all the necessary photometric requirements of the system, access to specification grade and commercial lighting equipment made in the United States by manufacturers who emphasize quality over quantity, and a willingness to use pioneering technologies that many of your clients may not yet trust, but can quickly be educated in if you can somehow find the time and resources to show them all the benefits you can bring to their table.

For instance, one of the most costly components in architectural outdoor landscape lighting has been any type of incandescent luminaire, such as a quartz floodlight, that consumes too much electricity in comparison to the light it produces. Newer fixtures that rely upon electronically ballasted fluorescent lamps, improved HID sources, and now LED light bars have made these older fixtures obsolete. This comes just in time as well. Any incandescent fixtures that your clients are currently using in their architectural landscape lighting systems are going to have to be replaced by 2010 anyway. Waiting until the last minute to take care of this only compounds replacement costs with a possible last minute part shortage. Saving your client from two crises simultaneously is an excellent way of gaining client loyalty, referrals, and repeat business down the line.

By investing now in specification grade landscape architectural lights that utilize improved fluorescent lamps and ballast controls, LEDʼs that can save as much as 80% on power consumption, and HIDs featuring higher than ever LPW efficiency rating, you generate savings that translates into ROI and recession proofing the Spartan budgets of a very cautious and somewhat nervous customer base. You can do this too without sacrificing the visual element so essential to this art and science. This new generation of architectural landscape site lighting not only performs better than the previous generation of technology, but it actually features more attractive, diversified and decorative fixture housings in a variety of fixture housings and finishes heretofore unimagined.

RLLD Commercial Lighting provides everything from decorative fluorescent bollards, post mounted lights, LED street lights for industrial parkways and private thoroughfares, super energy saving low voltage landscape lights of every variety, and HID floodlights that output more light with less energy than ever. All of our lighting fixtures, without exception, are made by world class manufacturers located right here in the United States. Because our sources are exclusively American, we can ensure both quality and compliance and also pass on manufacturersʼ warranties unavailable to cheaper parts procured from overseas channels.

Of even greater benefit to both small and large companies alike is the adjunct lighting design services we offer with every purchase of architectural landscape light fixtures. We have invested heavily in proprietary design software that will calculate the precise photometric requirements for optimal foot candle density and directional lighting control. By nailing down the technical and regulatory details first, we can then help you focus on finding fixtures and accessories that add aesthetic value to your clientʼs location. This in turn enables you to creating an architectural landscape outdoor lighting system that is customized to the exact parameters of your clientʼs site and guaranteed to perform reliably with a minimum of maintenance for years to come.

RLLD Commercial Lighting designs a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures and we have the lighting case studies to prove it! If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Cedar Rapids, IA (CID), Bloomington, IL, (BMI), Bar Harbor, ME, (BHB) Portland, ME, (PWM) Butte MT, Las Vegas, NV, (LAS) Santa Fe, NM,( SAF), Augusta, GA, (AGS) Athens, GA, (AHN) and King Salmon, AK (AKN).

Volleyball Court Lighting Packages

Because of the rising popularity of private volleyball courts and recreational volleyball courts in neighborhood recreation areas, the floodlights of yesteryear are soon to become outdated and stand to be replaced by sharp cutoff volleyball court lighting fixtures with metal halide or high pressure sodium lamps. Cut-off style fixtures provide a higher level of control of volleyball lighting and minimize light spillage, making them the best choices for schools, churches, YMCAʼs, and even personal backyards in cities with very strict dark sky compliance laws. Cut-off style volleyball court lights also look more attractive than traditional shoebox lighting designs and serve to better compliment building architecture and surrounding landscapes.

RLLD Commercial Lighting offers a wide range of fixture types and lamp wattages for recreational and professional volleyball court lighting and can show you first hand with actual lighting case studies of completed projects. For private courts, we recommend that you consult with an electrician who can install this equipment, as a number of calculations have to be factored into the equation when choosing and installing lights for a volleyball court. The standard court normally measures 60ʼ by 30ʼ, although these dimensions can vary in a number of private settings and special recreational facilities.

Working with a trained expert in RLLD Commercial Lighting will save a contractor a great deal of time doing all the math necessary to make all the necessary adjustments needed to light a volleyball court that deviates in any respect from standard measurements. It is also necessary to take a number of additional factors into considerations as follows:

Pole and Fixture Placement
In most volleyball court lighting systems, it is a good idea to use one double lighting kit on either side of the court. RLLD Commercial Lighting has a number of wooden and steel poles that come in both standard and decorative designs. We also have mounting brackets that can be used to mount one or more fixtures to trees growing near the court.

As a general rule, add approximately 20ʼ to the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the court in order to light both the court and sideline areas.

Fixture Attributes
The sheik cutoff design that characterizes by RLLD Commercial Volleyball court lighting fixtures gives them a strong competitive advantage over other types of fixtures. They present a much less obtrusive, almost low-profile appearance compared to the more bulky shoebox lights that are often used for tennis court lighting. The cutoff design also delivers a qualitative advantage over floodlights because it lights only the volleyball court and sideline areas with minimal light spillage beyond the court itself.

Lamps can be ordered from RLLD Commercial Lighting either in high pressure sodium (good for repelling insects) or metal halide choices (ideal for white light that nears natural light in quality). Contact one of our specialists about the wattage and ballast options that best suit your particular facility.

Fixture Mounting Height
Our diversity of volleyball court lighting poles and mounts makes it simple and quick for contractors to find exactly what they need to position fixtures at exactly the height necessary to avoid blinding the eyes of players and creating light pollution. RLLD Commercial Lighting experts will also help contractors and design professionals determine which poles and mounts can best withstand any high winds in a given part of the country with charts and up-to-date information on EPA codes and requirements.

Quantity and Quality of Light
Working with a distributor like RLLD Commercial lighting gives the freelance lighting designer access to top commercial grade lamps and fixtures. This helps ensure that glare and light pollution are eliminated for the greater comfort, safety, and enjoyment of the game. RLLD Commercial Lighting specialists will provide complimentary phone-based consulting to clients and serious inquirers and detailed advisory services for a small fee to the casual inquirer. Call us now to find both special volleyball lighting equipment and custom volleyball lighting packages made for end-users needs foremost in mind.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of athletic field commercial sports lighting fixtures:

Soccer Field Lighting
Baseball Field Lighting
Softball Field Lighting
Basketball Court Lighting
Rodeo & Horse Arena Lighting
Golf Course & Driving Range Lighting
Football Field Lighting Fixtures
Tennis Court Lighting

If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our lighting desigers are located in Houston, Texas with regional vendors located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., New Orleans, La., Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Mesa, Arizona, Virginia Beach, Va., Omaha, Nebraska, Oakland, California, Miami, Florida, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arlington, Texas, Beaumont, Texas, Denton, TX, McKinney, Texas, Midland, TX, Killeen, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Tennis Court Lights & Tennis Court Lighting Packages

The most effective tennis court lighting fixtures are forward throw fixtures which feature either precision optics or cut off designs that focus maximized lighting levels on the court and minimize glare from surrounding viewpoints. Tennis court lighting design should always be developed with two simultaneous objectives in mind: lighting the court and lighting the ball in play. Optimal illumination depends on striking this balance, and this balance in turn depends upon several other factors such as the number and location of light poles, the type and number of fixtures mounted on each pole, the size of the court, and the number of footcandles needed for the size and function of that court.

When all of these many factors are properly assessed and balanced together with one another, a uniform distribution of the light and non-glare optics is achieved. Ideal tennis court lighting should illuminate the entire court and extend approximately 6ʼ beyond the sidelines and 10ʼ behind the base lines. Metal Halide luminaries are the most common HID source used for tennis court lighting.

Choosing the Right Tennis Court Lights, Poles, and Accessories
Customers can go to our online sports lighting store and buy individual lighting fixtures, supplies, and individual light poles and lamps. Typically, fixtures come equipped with a 1000 watt, Metal Halide bulb. These sports lights are manufactured for both residential and commercial applications, so customers have the flexibility of installing these devices in a variety of settings. RLLD Commercial tennis court light poles come in a variety of heights and can be used for narrow, tournament, and club size tennis courts. For the convenience of both professional designers and certified electricians contracted by homeowners, we have created tennis court lighting packages that are specifically approved and designed for six standard tennis court layouts.

A few additional points bear further attention. Some of our tennis court lighting kits feature a double lamp pole light fixture. This offers a more even spread of illumination and a different look compared to that produced by a conventional, single lamp pole. We also offer quad light poles that have four die cast light fixtures for a distinctive appearance, and we include all necessary accessories for these lighting kits, include mounting hardware, brackets, and lamps. RLLD Commercial Lighting tennis court light kit designs can also be used with basketball and volleyball courts, or any other type of athletic or sports lighting area that requires superior lighting for game purposes. We have tennis lights for club or tournament courts, and we also have packages for single and dual playing fields as well.

Tennis Court Fixture Mounting Methods
In tennis court lighting you can choose between low-mast and high-mast pole configurations. Generally speaking, residential tennis court lighting is better accomplished with low-mast lighting, while high mast lighting is used in areas where higher light levels are required. Low-mast systems used in conjunction with sharp cut-off luminaries produce good uniformity, low glare, reduced amounts of spill light and are relatively easy to maintain.

Country clubs, resorts, five star hotels, and municipal parks can select from over 40 sports lights specifically designed for tennis courts and athletic field lighting. We also have many tennis court lighting articles that go into some Call an RLLD Commercial Lighting Specialist now for detailed suggestions on how to use these high-end, durable tennis court lights and accessories. Consultation over the phone is free to clients and serious inquirers, and competitive fee-based consultation is also available for those seeking information only from our expert staff.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of commercial athletic sport lighting fixtures including the following specialized lighting applications:

Soccer Field Lighting
Baseball Field Lighting
Softball Field Lighting
Volleyball Court Lighting
Basketball Court Lighting
Rodeo & Horse Arena Lighting
Golf Course & Driving Range Lighting
Football Field Lighting Fixtures

If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you and provide you an actual lighting case study of similar work. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., New Orleans, La., Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Mesa, Arizona, Virginia Beach, Va., Omaha, Nebraska, Oakland, California, Miami, Florida, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arlington, Texas, Beaumont, Texas, Denton, TX, McKinney, Texas, Midland, TX, Killeen, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Baseball Field & Ball Park Lights

The best lights for a baseball field or stadium are not the brightest possible lights, but rather the most evenly distributed, glare-free athletic sports field lighting fixtures. Too often, DIY electricians overspend when buying baseball field lights, either buying both too many fixtures or getting fixtures with too high a wattage output. This not only creates more exorbitant front-end costs, but it also generates higher lighting bills and can also create glare for smaller baseball diamonds. Professional designers know that retail grade baseball and softball lights pre-mounted to poles simply will not place Americaʼs Game in the right kind of light. Advanced foot-candle calculations based upon the size and location of the field must first be worked out in advanced, then commercial grade fixtures with sophisticated reflectors must be selected and positioned at exactly the right height on poles in order to produce maximum lumens per wattage efficiency. This is critical for mid-air lighting of the ball in play, and something that fixed-mounted light pole fixtures cannot provide. Also, pre-configured baseball lighting will almost always degrade more rapidly when exposed to extremes in weather, and when they begin to rust, they present an unsightly nuisance that eventually exposes wires to humidity and creates short circuit and possible fire hazard.

While commercial grade baseball and football field lights do represent a front end for the small town, peewee league, little league, or church camp, they can nevertheless be purchased from RLL Design at competitive prices on the front end, and they be configured in such a fashion as to create a energy-saving return on investment on the back end. This is why so many small towns, camps, and churches on a budget rely upon us for baseball lighting fixtures, poles, mounts and accessories. RLL Design specialists add years of consultation and lighting expertise to the proposal of the professional looking to generate savings and ROI, and they add consultative value to the knowledge of the do-it-yourselfer at a savings of cost-per-hour labor fees. Many clients are often amazed when they see how less can truly be more when it comes to baseball field and stadium lighting case studies. For example, a small little league field seldom needs more than one or two 1000-watt lamps along the baseline, and a single or double 400-watt baseball light over home plate. Determining the exact wattage to choose and where to install the fixture requires calculation of the size and location of the field and detailed knowledge of light pollution laws in oneʼs area. Having this knowledge available from your baseball light fixture supply distributor is an added value that saves you time preparing proposals and prevents costly mistakes when you decide to install the purchase and lights yourself.

Savings arenʼt limited to the small town or non-profit organization only, either. RLLD baseball lights are controlled by advanced ballast technology that renders superior electron flow, making them ideal for larger baseball stadiums and professional league lighting. RLLD baseball lights are designed to resist corrosion in a multitude of climates. Featuring a powder coated die cast housing with formed aluminum lids, they can endure a greater level of stress from wind and rain. These baseball light fixtures further protect lamp life with tempered flat glass insulated with gasket seals and aluminum clamp bands. By adding anodized aluminum reflectors to magnify lumens output and photometric distribution, you can further customize each fixture and achieve greater lighting levels with less power consumption. With the help of your RLLD sports lighting specialist, you can choose from types 3, 4, 5, or 6 optics to achieve maximum visibility for safe play.

Superior ballasts also extend the lamp life of RLLD baseball lighting fixtures and produces a more reliable, consistent spread of illumination necessary for lighting a larger stadium. For optimal results, it is best for both contractors and DIY electricians to work with a sports lighting design experts who will help them purchase poles and fixtures separately, then configure them into a specialty kit or custom lighting design. Each baseball field is unique, so a variety of mounting brackets is also required to achieve precise positioning of light fixtures on poles so that directional angle of incidence is optimized and glare is minimized.

For baseball fields with have light poles already mounted in place, you can work with one of our specialists who will fit them with new mounting arms and light fixtures. Our baseball sports lighting fixtures can also be mounted on any number of pole types and wall mounts, making them multi-functional for other types of sports and recreation. This is an added value we like to pass on to contractors competitively bidding jobs for clients who have very limited procurement budgets, and it also serves to help smaller facilities looking to self-install a lighting system that can serve many needs at once.

RLL Design understands that both professional and end-user clients simply do not have the time to do all the lighting research and calculation necessary to effectively develop a baseball or sports arena lighting system. To help serve these organizations and individuals, we staff a team of Experts who will answer any question in our online forum, and we will help any serious inquiries over the phone.

RLLD Commercial Lighting design carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial parking lot lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., New Orleans, La., Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Mesa, Arizona, Virginia Beach, Va., Omaha, Nebraska, Oakland, California, Miami, Florida, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arlington, Texas, Beaumont, Texas, Denton, TX, McKinney, Texas, Midland, TX, Killeen, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Photometric Lighting Analysis & Design

Obtaining a 3-D photometric report on your client’s property is perhaps the best thing you can do to ensure maximum efficiency of the commercial lighting system you install and maximum long-term client satisfaction with the operability and overall aesthetic impact of that system. Photometric analysis software, however, is often far outside the price range of small lighting design firms and independent electrical contractors. Typically, only the larger firms have the budget to purchase photometric analysis software and the manpower to use it. Smaller companies and individuals are therefore at a clear disadvantage when it comes to proposing new equipment. That is, unless they can find a partner company who has photometric analysis software that can generate reports for them.

This is precisely why RLLD Commercial Lighting invested in photometric analysis software—to give the independent contractor and the small lighting design firm a competitive advantage that was previously unavailable to them. Using this software, we can create one or more reports on your client’s location that will enable us to select the very best luminaires for the new system. The square footage, vertical cube space, and general layout of your client’s facility is input into our photometric analysis software first. This data can then be used to generate foot candle charts and photometric reports that pinpoint the very best locations to install lighting fixtures. These reports can be printed both as technical spec sheets and as user friendly documents complete with pictures and general descriptions for end user review. Having a document like this to place alongside of your proposal gives you additional negotiating power with your client and proves to the decision maker you have thoroughly understood their needs and done your homework in response.

For indoor lighting case studies, photometric analysis software allows us to work on a room by room basis. We can run different scenarios through the system according based on either hypothetical luminance levels or fixtures in the room. This allows us to identify potential problem areas where objects in the room may cast dark shadows and disrupt the aesthetic and obscure visibility. Knowing where these problems areas are most likely to pop up helps us recommend both the best luminaire models and pinpoint the optimal angles at which to mount them and quote lighting packages.

Because we supply commercial warehouse lighting fixtures from a number of different manufacturers (all based in the United States), it is important to consider all options before making a final choice. Each manufacturer offers unique fixture designs and energy efficiency safeguards, and lamp life varies as well between the various proprietary designs. What may be the best fixture to use in a small, single building office may not be the best choice for a multi-building site or office park.

The software actually contains manufacturer’s spec sheets and engineering documents on specific fixtures in different categories. These reports can be pulled and a luminaire comparison report instantly generated that details fixture optics, lumens per watt efficiency, and expected lamp life. Cross referencing light levels and fixture placement reports with specific data on each fixture made by a leading US lighting manufacturer hones the effectiveness of the photometric analysis to a razor-edge precision.

While we do charge a fee for photometric analysis, we refund the amount in full should you move forward in a business relationship with RLLD Commercial Lighting and purchase your commercial landscape lighting equipment from us. Casual inquirers and companies seeking adjunct support are nonetheless welcome to call us and purchase a report to use in any project and are under no obligation to buy commercial lighting products in conjunction with the report.

In either case, we are here to help the independent contractor gain a competitive advantage on a more athletic level playing field.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

RLLD's home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA)

Commercial Lighting Supply Company

How has the Internet changed the nature of commercial lighting supply?
Online commercial lighting suppliers are beginning to offer traditional commercial light fixture distributorships some serious competition. Websites are selling everything from indoor office lights to recessed art lights and kitchen lighting fixtures. It is almost possible to buy anything you want somewhere online—particularly for jobs in the residential marketplace. This is not so easy, though, if you are looking for larger outdoor commercial lighting equipment orders used for large commercial outdoor lighting projects. Larger fixtures and lighting poles have to be transported on larger directly to the project site and require special offloading procedures that the average online commercial lighting supply source cannot provide.

Are there any negatives involved in buying commercial lighting products online?
The average, commercial lighting supply website only offers you an online store with limited information on applications and vague information at best on manufacture and product engineering details. It is like walking through a retail mega chain, or browsing through an 800-page catalogue to navigate some of these sites. This makes it hard to find exactly what your client needs when all you have to work with are short product descriptions, lists of features, and an overseas call center that provides ordering services only. If you need more specific architectural lighting information on the manufacture and application benefits of specific luminaires, mounts, and poles, you will have to find a commercial lighting supply source beyond the limitations of the standard online store.

How is RLLD Commercial Lighting different than other online supply sources?
We are different because we provide you with both products and application-focused design services at affordable cost small and mid-sized contractors who want to stay on top of the competition and forge ahead in troubled times. The fact that our lighting design service offerings consists of building an individual relationship with each client and supporting our online community at every bend in the road makes us unique. We are certain that this is the key to success in any venture, and we have committed ourselves to this new commercial lighting supply process so that our commercial indoor lighting clients can continue to gain a winning edge in today’s marketplace.

How do you supply commercial lighting design services if you operate primarily online?
We provide design services and validate your specifications with sophisticated software that renders models of your client’s location with various options in lighting poles, fixtures, lamps, and mounts. We can use these models to run simulations and forecast performance and efficiency prior to you filling out a purchase order. This also allows us to give you multiple equipment options to choose from.

Such an application-oriented approach to commercial lighting supply works to streamline procurement more directly toward your project, improve your profit margins, and provide you with specification-grade equipment pursuant to winning you the bid.

Here are just a few of the many commercial lighting areas of specialty that RLLD Commercial Lighting can offer the savvy shopper:

Athletic & Sports Field Lighting
All RLLD Commercial Sports Lighting fixtures and mounts are manufactured from top commercial grade materials and feature a wide range of glare/light pollution shielding designs to keep your client’s facility fully compliant with dark sky laws and light level regulatory codes.

Commercial Parking Lot Lighting
RLLD commercial parking lot lights are constructed of formed aluminum that adds a contemporary touch to your building or commercial warehouse. Hinged doors on each fixture allow easy access for maintenance, and mounting options range from wall mounts to pole mounts in a broad range of optics and accessories.

Agriculture Barn & Horse Arena Light Fixtures
Metal halide lights are excellent retrofits for equestrian facilities with large creosote light poles. These lights are manufactured with sturdy brackets designed to mount on walls or buildings and feature both superb color rendering and power conservation. With RLLD commercial lighting pole adapters and metal halide box floods, existing outdoor horse arenas can be upgraded to an entirely new level of quality without having to rewire the facility.

Commercial Warehouse Lighting and HID Fixtures
Energy-saving commercial warehouse lights are an ideal choice for industrial clients who wish to recession-proof their businesses. Select from any number of HID, Fluorescent, and even LED Industrial warehouse lights to optimize your proposal for client savings and win/win bidding.

If you can not find what you are looking on our extensive website, lighting blog or lighting article section call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., New Orleans, La., Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Mesa, Arizona, Virginia Beach, Va., Omaha, Nebraska, Oakland, California, Miami, Florida, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arlington, Texas, Beaumont, Texas, Denton, TX, McKinney, Texas, Midland, TX, Killeen, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.