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 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 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).