Interior Lighting Design & Designers

How does this term apply to the industrial world?
There are three types of facilities arenas in which interior lighting design is necessary: factories, warehouses, and offices. All three arenas require systems to be planned prior to the purchase of any equipment to save on energy costs, contribute to worker efficiency, and to maintain a safe work environment.

Why would an industrial firm need to think about office lighting?
Virtually every facility, no matter how devoted to manufacturing or distribution it may be, has office space of some type. Management and administration requires this separate space to oversee production and to make mission critical decisions about the company.

If we don’t have that many offices, do we need the same type of lighting that non-manufacturing corporations use?
Yes, but you probably don’t need as much because you have less square footage and fewer physical places to light. This can be good news to your pocketbook, and should also motivate you to invest in the photometric plan that will help you save in the long run. In principle, interior lighting design in your office space will follows the same principles as it does in service-oriented companies in the general corporate world at large. Your employees will have comfortable task lighting over their desks and cubes.

How can we save the most money on lighting a few executive and administrative offices?
Let an commercial interior lighting design expert help you determine the areas that really NEED special, high-quality lighting, and which areas really do not.

Foyers should have just enough ambient lighting to look professional to visitors and clients. Meeting rooms and executive office suites ought to have lighting controls that will save electricity by dimming the lights and also be able to create unique emotional states if there is a Power Point presentation or special speaker present.

Break rooms and bathrooms are the places where an architectural lighting designer can show you how to save a lot of money by using less expensive fixtures and using only enough light as is absolutely necessary in non-essential areas.

If we are running a factory, why should we spend extra money on interior lighting design when all we do is manufacture products?
You need it because the success of your manufacturing is contingent on precision, time-to-market, and safe working conditions. The quality of light in the building directly affects all of these things. Without sufficient task lighting, assembly line workers cannot see and consequently work at a noticeably slower pace. Morale tends to be rather negative too when people spend long hours at a time in dark areas.

And just how is interior lighting design so important to safety protocols?
People need certain amounts of light to do certain things. If the things they are doing may hurt them and they cannot see to do them, one major accident can shut your factory down. We are not trying to scare you with information you already know. We have all heard stories about accidents that happened around machines. Go back and look at some of these accidents and you’ll realize that some of them were directly related to poor visibility caused by bad lighting.

Save your company the liabilities and heartache with a photometric plan will show exactly how many fixtures your factory needs, where they ought to be mounted, and how they need to be positioned in order to minimize reflective glare and dispel shadows in hazardous work areas.

What will an industrial interior lighting plan do for my warehouse that general high bay lighting doesn’t already do?
General high bay and low bay lights are standard in almost every warehouse, so by no means do we mean to say here that you should stop using them. However, it may serve your interest better to look at the quality and the age of your current lights. Consider, however, how much you spend on maintaining them and operating them. You may discover that newer, more energy efficient lights engineered with longer lamp life could save money on both power and maintenance cycles.

Is there a way to get new lights and save money on more than just electricity and maintenance?
Yes. In principle, you need more light in areas where forklifts traffic cannot afford to have reflective glare from lights that are too bright or improperly mounted. You need precise levels of task light in packaging areas that cannot afford to be dark because inventory loss is likely to occur in darker areas.

In much of your storage space, break areas, bathrooms, hallways, and less traveled parts of the building, (ie: anything non-essential and non-labor intensive), we may could even reduce your lighting and save you additional money here.

Again, we have to an interior photometric lighting design analysis to see exactly what we can do for you. If you do buy equipment from us after buying the analysis, we refund the cost of the analysis and you end up with better, more efficient equipment and a more productive and safe operation at the end of the day.

What types of savings can RLLD offer its clients?
By investing a reasonable fee in an architectural lighting design plan, you gain significant savings by knowing up front exactly what you need before you mistakenly buy the wrong fixtures or buy too many fixtures. You never need to worry about over lighting an area or under lighting an area. An industrial outdoor lighting design plan is also very flexible—offering you variation in light levels based upon the actual need for light in that area. In certain areas such as warehouse loading docks, you will need brighter lighting for safety. In areas where work is not occurring, you only need general lighting for adequate visibility.

If you buy your industrial outdoor products from us, we will refund the value of the photometric design by deducting it from your equipment purchase invoice. This will also save you money on service charges.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial 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.

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Historic Granary Lighting Case Study

Historic Granary In Lemont Pennsylvania Restored using RLLD Exterior Gooseneck Lighting Fixtures
Our client was the Lemont Village Association, a nonprofit 501-C3 organization which owned the Lemont Granary. This historic landmark, built in 1885, had been central to the importance of Lemont, Pennsylvania. This building was a grain elevator and coal shed that had been played a crucial role in the position of Lemont as a regional agricultural hub up until the mid 1950s. After this time, however, the building fell into disuse and disrepair.

Not wanted to see the collapse of a historic building that had once been so important to this community. After the LVA purchased it, along with a surrounding 1 acre parcel, plans were drawn up to renovate the building. The intention was to use the site as a location for numerous local functions. Once the building was restored to its historical condition, the LVA aimed to use it to host a seasonal meetings, special events, feasts, plays, art shows, farmers markets, holiday markets, and weddings.

The most pressing challenge was finding a luminaire that looked historically authentic.
The Lemont Village Association did not want to install any contemporary lighting on the building that would diminish its historical look. At first they thought he would simply find fixtures that had a classic look and offer the high performance output he was seeking. The initial retail channels he investigated, however, provided him with nothing. He also faced the same challenge with interior lighting fixtures, which were equally difficult to find. After searching online, however, they located RLLD Commercial Lighting and liked the look and performance rating of our exterior gooseneck lighting fixtures.

There were no real design concerns other than the need to aesthetically match the historicity of the structure.
Because our exterior gooseneck commercial lighting fixtures looked much like 19th century lights, all the LVA needed to be sure of was that they would produce the desired levels of levels of outdoor lighting. They ordered three fixtures to test lighting output, and, liking what they saw, ordered one more fixture for the building.

In this particular instance, there was no need to use our photometric design software.
There were no municipal lighting codes and no county ordinances to meet, so the LVA literally had free reign to choose their decorative outdoor lights.

The luminaires ultimately purchased by the LVA 150W RLLD exterior goose neck light fixtures.
RLLD exterior gooseneck light fixtures are specification grade quality made specifically for commercial lighting. They feature ¾ inch aluminum brackets and spun, galvanized steel and heavy-duty reflectors. The models chosen by the client featured a high-gloss black, powder coat finish that matched the historical architecture of the building.

Interior light fixtures were also purchased to compliment outdoor architectural lights. These 200W ceiling mounted lights that reflected the same historical look and featured a pendant-style design.

How Do I Contact RLLD?
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Parking Lot Lighting & Outdoor Lights

Contractors hired to install parking lot lighting systems for commercial clients can come to RLLD Commercial Lighting Supply as both a source of adjunct lighting design and superior equipment procurement. The benefits of this relationship extend far beyond the stereotypical “one source solution” that everyone wants to use as a claim to fame these days. It offers contractors a means of recession-proofing their brick-and-mortar clients by calculating beforehand all the necessary components of a parking lot or decorative lighting system and providing the top-of-the-line US-manufactured commercial light products to install.

Check out some of the commercial parking lot lighting articles posted on RLLD:

Commercial Light Pole Installation
Commercial light pole installation is a systematic process that flows from the conceptual and the general to the systematic and precise. This process is similar to a flowchart.

Concrete Lighting Poles
Cement or concrete lighting poles have experienced a recent surge in popularity among property developers, civil engineers, architects, and general contractors. People have begun to realize that concrete, in spite of its reputation as a purely industrial substance.

Commercial Parking Lot Lighting
Commercial Parking Lot Lighting has become increasingly regulated over the years and requires expert knowledge beyond electrical expertise to properly configure and install.

Parking Lot Lighting Fixtures
Parking Lot Lighting Fixtures & 3D Photometric Lighting Designs Services. Take for example the wide variety of parking lot fixtures that are used to light car dealerships, malls or coffee house patios.

Parking Lot Lighting Design
The size and layout of your client’s parking lot will often help our photomatric lighting design team quickly pinpoint the degree of cutoff and optics type most effective for your project. If a parking lot is asymmetrical and located in a nefarious part of town.

Outdoor Parking Lot Lighting
Outdoor Parking Lot Lighting. Commercial Lighting can help you achieve superior results with just the right amount of power, elevation, and angle of incidence without overspending or encroaching on light trespass restrictions.

RLLD Commercial Lighting also carries a wide variety of sport & athletic 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.

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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 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.

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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 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).