Outdoor Accent Lighting Fixtures

Outdoor accent commercial lighting can accent any element of structure or exterior landscape with supplemental white light or lighting of various hues and colors. Outdoor accent light fixtures tend to be smaller and less obtrusive than purely functional site lights, and most are available in low voltage designs that allow them to remain on throughout the night without costing your client a fortune in electrical usage. There are hundreds of fixture types you can use for outdoor accent lighting, and countless places throughout your client’s property where they can be installed for a superior outdoor lighting experience.

Building Lights & Building Lighting
Most commercial buildings have something uniquely aesthetic about their architecture that makes them stand out as individual structures in comparison to other buildings. Accenting these structural points of differentiation can be done very effectively with decorative light fixtures made specifically for building and sign lighting.

Even if your client has a building that features nothing spectacular or particularly attractive about its design, you can still add an aesthetic touch to even the plainest of structures with LED recessed electric lights and signage lighting. Just by adding a touch of color to a drab exterior can transform a building from something that is “just there” to something that stands out in an appealing manner.

Walkway Lights & Landscape Lighting
Any corporation, academic institution, or municipal facility that has two or more buildings on property is going to have connecting walkways that run between these buildings. These walkways can be accented with a variety of outdoor accent lighting fixtures, most of which are low voltage fixtures and diminutive in size. Bollards, path lighting, and rope lights are excellent sources to use along walkways. During holidays, a host of LED specialty lights and displays can also be installed along walkways to establish a theme of decorum appropriate to the season.

Ultimately, no matter what lamping options you select for your client’s outdoor accent lighting, you want to create a sense of unity between the architecture of different buildings—especially if the buildings themselves differ significantly from one another. If your clients building(s) reside(s) on a large piece of land, you also have to extend this sense of unity into the surrounding landscape. As sustainability and green technology continue to matter more and more to society at large, your clients can surely benefit from any visual suggestion that their operation exists in harmony with the surrounding natural world to the extent that the boundaries between the two cannot be clearly separated, if they can be at all.

Tree Lights & Tree Lighting
Tree lighting represents a very unique, niche market service for eclectic landscape design companies. For regions of the country where they are still legal to use, mercury vapor decorative lights can be hidden in the upper branches of the trees to create pools of artificial moonlight around the base of the trunk. For regions of the nation where mercury lights have been banned, contractors can install fluorescent or LED fixtures to create special luminary effects in the landscape.

Waterworks & Waterfalls
Municipal parks and large commercial properties often invest in fountains and artificial waterfalls. These waterworks can be either circular or rectangular in nature and often have a concrete bottom similar to a swimming pool. When you encounter a structure such as this, you have an amazing opportunity to produce some spectacular lighting effects with energy saving lights that will magnify the brilliance of the fountain and surrounding pool at a marginal power cost.

Commercial decorative lighting around waterworks can be either ambient white light or colored light. LEDs make excellent accent lighting for fountains and bodies of water because many LEDs are actually designed to operate under the water itself. You can install red, green, amber, or blue LEDs in key locations along the bottom of the pool, fountain, or artificial waterfall, creating a spectrum of light that rises out of the water. Around the perimeter you can use decorative bollards, step lights, accent lights, and small floodlights that shine white light toward the center of the pool and the waterspout of the fountain itself. These fixtures too may be very energy efficient. You can use low voltage halogen, commercial fluorescent or white LEDs.

Statues and Metal Sculptures
Statues are common on public school campuses and institutions of higher learning. They are almost always present in the courtyard of city government buildings and frequently decorate public recreation and park areas as well. Decorative lighting around statuary should be as low key and unobtrusive as possible. Commercial lights mounted in the ground around statues or on the corners of the pedestal can create stunning up lighting effects. You do not want to light the entire surface of the statue when doing this. If you do, you will “flatten” the statues appearance to a two dimensional image. A certain amount of shadow is essential to giving a statue a truly three dimensional appearance. Commercial decorative lights must be positioned at key angles of incidence to create this blend of light and shadow.

Similar principals apply to lighting metal sculpture with decorative lights, although there is often much greater flexibility here if you are lighting something that is very large and obviously abstract and asymmetrical in design. Large metal sculptures often require decorative lights to be directly mounted to their surface at the top and near the middle in order to evenly illuminate the curves and angles of the piece.

RLLD Commercial Lighting has access to countless dark sky lighting fixtures and lamping options that can accommodate these unique art lighting demands. We also have many years of experience in fine art lighting equipment and design and will provide you with any assistance you need in setting up outdoor accent lighting systems for metal sculptures, statuary's, and abstract three dimensional works. All consultation services and photometric lighting analysis of your client’s site are free if you are a serious inquirer or existing client of RLLD Commercial Lighting. Casual inquirers in need of supplementary support can obtain the same level of service and quality for a small, reasonable fee.

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. 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).

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Hotel Conference Room Lighting Examples

A large hotel on the East Coast had recently renovated one of their conference rooms. The new facility would allow virtually any type of event to be hosted in the room simply by adding different types of tables and chairs. They immediately realized, however, that renovations had caused the conference room to outgrow the capabilities of its primitive fluorescent lighting system. A new lighting system would be needed to accommodate the many new functions that the room would be used for.

We first asked the hotel to visit our lighting case studies to validate our services and send us a list of the many events they planned to rent the room for. This allowed us to get a better grasp on their expectations and indicate the level of complexity that the conference room lighting would require. We realized early on that we would have to create multiple switching points in order to generate different layers of light in different parts of the conference room. Mood setting was not our primary concern here. There were a number of product trade shows coming to town that intended to attract an older audience. The conference room needed the brightest commercial lighting fixtures possible host these events so people could clearly see product details and colors.

We also had to install lighting above a small stage in the conference room. Stage lighting equipment is not our normal forte, but we assured the hotel that we would come up with something exceptional here as part of the overall conference room lighting system. By taking IES files associated with different types of fixtures into our photometric software, we then began to model dozens of hypothetical lighting case examples for the conference room. This allowed us to develop both an equipment list and a plan for lighting control in the conference room.

To meet the demands of bright lighting versus flexible lighting, we installed a combination of fluorescent and halogen lights. For, general lighting that would be required for trade shows, we used 2X4 T8 fluorescent fixtures regulated by electronic ballasts. For indirect light during audiovisual presentations, we recommended placing wall sconces along the sides of the conference room. Finally, to create a light dimmable source that would adjust the conference room lighting to levels appropriate for everything from motivational speaking to formal parties, we installed recessed halogens along the ceiling and over the stage. Event coordinators can now turn all lights on at maximum capacity for trade show, and they can turn off fluorescent lights and use dimmers to adjust halogen lights and wall sconces for all other functions.

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Commercial Office Lighting Designers

Business office light plays a very significant role in morale and motivation. People associate light with positive energy and activity, and they tend to be more alert and enthusiastic in a well-lit office environment. Office lighting is a significant portion of the companyʼs overhead because it tends to consume a great deal of electricity. When possible, commercial indoor lighting fixtures should be as energy conscious as possible. Also, depending on the type of business your client is in, office lights often play a critical role in interior design. If a business decorates extensively with fine furniture, fine art, unique color schemes, or even statuary, lights will have to be installed in the office to provide these decorations with the special significance they deserve. Cornerstone to all of this is functionality. No matter how large or small the office or what type of industry it operates within, office lighting systems should be configured to support the specific activities that make the organization money. In more and more instances, this involves not only the very best luminaires, but also customized lighting fixtures and lighting control systems.

Morale and Motivation
A number of studies have shown that the quality of light in an office has a direct impact on the psychology and performance of the workplace. If you are designing an office lighting system, try to think beyond the simple functional requirements of visibility. If you want to out compete other contractors, hand your clients a proposal that shows him or her how your design will establish a tone and momentum appropriate for their workplace. Commercial lighting for offices should provide enough bright, comfortable illumination that people do not have to strain their eyes. This requires a skillful combination of direct and indirect layers of light, because too much direct light will almost always cast a shadow behind any large object like a cubicle. Too little direct lighting, however, is often too dim, and people end up looking out the windows too much to get their jobs done.

A roomʼs vertical and horizontal dimensions work together to determine the correct number of horizontal and vertical foot candles the office lights will need to produce to strike this delicate balance. These dimensions must be factored together to determine the room cavity ratio for the office before lighting fixtures and their placements can be selected and determined.

Appropriately Decorative
Companies that frequently have large numbers of clients or business partners visiting their offices tend to decorate toward the high end of the spectrum. They frequently use fine photography, artwork, floral arrangements, eclectic furnishings, and even statuary to set apart different office spaces from normal operations. These places within an office need lights that complement and enhance whatever decorative themes and elements are used in these areas.
Three areas in the building where you should really strive to impress your clients with your lighting design skills are foyers, conference rooms, and executive offices. These areas not only host special activities, but they also feature unique interior architecture that requires specific decorative and architectural lighting fixtures, such as cove lights, to properly compliment the color scheme and fine furnishings that typify these environments.

Office light fixtures here will perform at their highest when wired to dimmers and lighting control systems that can adjust the level of light, manipulate single fixtures or groups of fixtures, or even one or more specific colors of light mixed with general white light for special effects.

Task Supportive
On a practical not, office lights have to facilitate the work flow process of an organization by providing glare-free illumination that eliminates pockets of shadow and white spots on monitor screens and desk areas. This often requires the use of indirect lighting. Because indirect lighting reflects from either the ceiling or wall back into the open spaces where people are working, it tends to be more diffused and therefore less likely to reflect a second time off of work areas.

To find out just how much indirect lighting an office will need, you will have to calculate the roomʼs reflectivity ratio. Different colored walls will absorb more light than others, so before installing any type of office lights it is necessary to factor this value into your photometric equations before you choose equipment for your client.

Energy Saving
As fuel costs rise around the world, energy costs rise with them. Along with inflation, concerns about climate change continue to mount as well, placing a great deal of pressure on businesses to use more energy efficient indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures. Because scientists now know that 40% of all the worldʼs greenhouse gases are produced in buildings, new kinds of office lighting fixtures are being developed that conserve electricity and operate at more environmentally standards. Compact fluorescent, new commercial fluorescent lights, induction lights, and an explosion of fixture and lamping options in revolutionary LED lighting give you more options in cost effective office lighting than ever before. Not only does your proposal make a business look better in this way, but it also creates a savings surplus which helps recession proof a business in unstable times.

Adjunct Lighting Design Assistance
To effectively illuminate office space, you must first develop a point-by-point photometric analysis based on the room cavity ratio and reflectivity ratio. Without a firm understanding of the many nuances that characterize the officeʼs interior architecture, floor space, and general range of activities, it is difficult to know exactly which office lighting fixtures you should propose to your clients. Room cavity ratios and room reflectivity ratios require complex calculations to work out by hand, and computing these when you are a solo proprietor or have only a few employees can slow you down too much.

Let RLLD Commercial Lighting do this for you. Using our advanced design software, we will provide you with a free photometric analysis of sites and interior office space for all clients who purchase lighting fixture equipment from us. We also provide design services on paid basis at a reasonable fee. Smaller companies and contractors who lack the budget, manpower, or time to invest in lighting design software can now compete with larger firms that have these software programs. If this describes your current situation, simply pick up the phone and provide us with general dimensions and specifications of your clientʼs site, and we will use our tools to help you develop the schematics and technical parameters of your proposal.

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)

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.

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:

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Retail Center Parking Lot 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.

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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.

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Commercial Outdoor Parking Lot Lighting

How important is it to use high wattage fixtures in large outdoor parking lots?
There are times when high wattage parking lot lighting fixtures are necessary, but not every large facility requires the most powerful lights to produce optimal results. Other factors such as optics, luminaire housing and its relationship to directional control of lighting, and systematic planning of the overall outdoor lighting to find the best angles of incidence produce much better results—with less power expended and an overall lower operating budget for your client.

How significant is the role optics and reflectors in outdoor parking lot lighting?
The significance of optical engineering is probably greater now than ever before. Light trespass laws have become increasingly strict in most parts of the country. You want your client to enjoy a safe and comfortable environment, but you do not want your neighbors to feel annoyed by outdoor light that encroaches beyond the perimeter of your parking lot. By selecting parking lot lighting fixtures that have the very best reflectors and shields, it is possible to achieve a delicate balance between intensity and containment which otherwise would require lowering the levels of light and compromising foot candle levels.

Can luminaire housing design play a significant role in further minimizing glare and outdoor light trespass in and around a parking lot?
Absolutely. Housing design is a critical factor in distributing luminance, as a matter of fact. Some designs, like full cutoffs, aim the light directly downward onto the pavement below. Others like semi direct it downward at an angle, spreading it gently over the parking lot. Sometimes it may not be immediately obvious to determine just what housings will produce the best results just by walking around a client’s parking lot or examining a CAD drawing. Lighting an establishment that has uniquely configured parking lot islands or a storefront that requires a view free from the obstructions of commercial light poles often requires very advanced calculations, and a custom solution beyond strictly standard designs.

Lighting a uniquely designed or asymmetrical parking lot is best done by having RLLD Commercial lighting design and render a full, detailed photometric analysis of the facility first.
Our design team can actually create a three-dimensional model of your client’s parking lot rendered that will show how one or more proposed outdoor lot lighting layouts will look. Multiple variables such as foot candle density, angle of incidence, and recommended pole heights can all be simultaneously calculated and adjusted either collectively or individually. This allows us to help you forecast outcomes prior to purchasing and to determine in advance exactly what equipment will need to be installed. This can then be validated by one of our commercial lighting case studies.

Are all of your outdoor lights and poles made in the USA?
Yes. We strongly believe that American made luminaires are the best in the world. We also feel that working with US manufacturers helps our own economy and passes additional benefits on to contractors and end users in the form of shorter lead time and more dependable written warranties that back up the quality and the performance of the equipment we sell.

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.

Where are you located?
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 Lighting & Light Fixtures

RLLD Commercial lighting offers a number of essential benefits to every organization currently facing rising costs and stagnant markets in a mounting recession. Reducing overhead is top priority to most organizations, and clients facing the necessity of new investments will only do so when those investments offer tangible returns. Outdoor commercial lighting designers working B2B can help their clients reduce overhead by proposing commercial lighting systems that feature improved energy efficiency and advanced lighting control.

Competitive bidding situations can often be overcome by pointing out to clients that the savings/reinvestment potential of superior grade, energy efficient commercial architectural lighting fixtures quickly recovers both investment funds and revenue that would otherwise be wasted on exorbitant power bills. More savings can be generated for many commercial and industrial clients with security lighting systems that can create a higher safety rating and reduce the costs of commercial liability insurance. Better commercial lights also means less frequent maintenance and equipment replacements. Many clients in government and education have fixed budgets and cannot invest annually in upgrades and maintenance. Offering these entities solutions that not only save power, but also last longer, generates even more recession proofing for the end user that gives the commercial lighting designer ultimate competitive advantage in a bidding war.

RLLD Commercial and industrial lighting also equips contract lighting designers with the full spectrum of lamping options for all commercial fixture types. Our inventory includes halogen lamps with wide, intense beam spreads that are ideal for lighting outdoor industrial areas and large parking lots. For clients on tight budgets, contractors can propose any number of RLLD fluorescent commercial lighting fixtures engineered specifically for factory, warehouse, and commercial parking garage lighting. For heavy-duty security lighting, we also supply a wide variety of high-pressure sodium lamps and floodlights that can be tied to automated timers and sensors to create a maximum-security perimeter around your clientsʼ facility, office, school, or government building. Last but not least, RLLD inventories all major types of commercial light fixtures in LED models that combine the world’s most efficient lighting distribution system with energy savings ranging from 80-90%.

More options means more benefits that you can pass on to your clients, and RLLD is committed to helping you win every bid by providing you not only with equipment, but also with choices and support. These options include, but are by no means limited to, the following major categories of commercial lighting fixtures.

Athletic & Sports Field lighting
All RLLD Commercial Sports Lights are manufactured from top commercial grade materials and feature a wide range of glare/light pollution shielding designs to keep your client’s facility in full compliance dark skies and lighting level regulatory codes.

Parking Garage Lighting
RLLD Commercial Lighting inventories parking garage lights with High Intensity Metal Halide Fixtures, High Pressure Sodium Lamps, and a wide range of fluorescent fixtures designs. Each fixture type offers unique advantages that must be considered in terms of cost, commercial lighting quality, and the size of your parking garage. Ask an RLLD commercial lighting expert which lamping option will work best for your client’s facility.

Commercial Parking Lot Lighting
RLLD Commercial Lighting commercial 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.

Commercial Fluorescent Lights
RLLD provides commercial fluorescent lighting fixtures in every shape and size in order to equip the contractor with every conceivable replacement option for incandescent lights. This includes ceiling mounted fluorescent fixtures, hanging fluorescent lighting strips, fluorescent wall packs, fluorescent floodlights, loading dock lights, and commercial high bay lights.

All RLLD fluorescent lamps generate minimal heat and help maintain cooler temperatures in workshops, warehouses, and other areas where minimizing radiant heat creates a safe and optimal work environment for workers.

New & Used Car Dealership Lighting
RLLD Commercial Lighting inventories five major series models of car dealership commercial light fixtures, each of is available in any number of finishes, builds, glare shield accessory options, fixture housing, and optical design. RLLD Commercial Lighting experts will help you configure the schematics of your car dealership lighting system to give you the best possible image for maximized sales.

Mall Parking Lot Lighting
Retails shopping centers and malls have to ensure nothing discourages shoppers from visiting their locations. Parking lot lights help make a mall or strip center much more attractive and increase a feeling of safety for shoppers by making sidewalks, parking areas, streets, and landscapes more visible.

Agriculture Barn & Horse Arena Light Fixtures
Metal halide lights make excellent retrofits for equestrian facilities with large creosote light poles. These lights are designed with 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 modify existing electrical wiring.

Business Buildings & Office Lighting
RLLD commercial and architectural lighting experts will help you line item fixtures and mounts that will ensure an efficient balance of safety, security, aesthetics, and regulatory code compliance. This allows the commercial lighting designer or developer to take a whole site approach to outdoor and architectural lighting with RLLD as a one-source vendor of equipment and consulting design solutions.

Parks & Recreation Lights
RLLD Commercial Park and Recreation Lights feature symmetrical geometry and elaborate decorations based on historical periods and established artistic motifs. They also support all lamping types for maximum lumens per watt efficiency, so it is never necessary to compromise functionality or lamp maintenance for aesthetics when you work with RLLD Commercial as your source.

Commercial Warehouse Lighting and HID Fixtures
Energy saving commercial warehouse lighting is the best way to help your industrial client’s recession proof their businesses. Choose from any number of HID, Fluorescent, and even LED Industrial warehouse lights to optimize your lighting fixture package or proposal for client savings and win/win bidding.

Security Lighting
RLLD Commercial Lighting supplies contractors with a wide variety of security lighting products. Find floodlights, low pressure sodium vapor lights, wall packs, canopy lights, motion detectors, HID fixtures, and both wall and pole mounted security lights, outdoor wall mount light fixtures,

Commercial lighting fixtures vary considerably in size and accommodate specific interior tasks and exterior applications, so working with a vendor like RLLD who has access to lighting level regulations and local regulatory codes can often help contractors choose not only the best fixtures for the client, but also those that offer the greatest level of compliance with governing authorities. This type of partnership makes it possible for commercial lighting design firms to obtain any type of fixtures, mounts, or accessory from an RLLD expert and develop a customized tennis court lighting proposal that speaks to client facility, budget, and aesthetic preferences all at once.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures. Have you searched our commercial lighting articles for helpful and technical lighting advice? If you can not find what you are looking for there please contact us toll free at 1-866-654-3961, or visit our commercial lighting blog and we will find it for you.

Our site 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.

Architectural Lighting Projects

Civil engineers, general contractors, commercial electricians, architects, and professional lighting designers will find it much easier to choose architectural lights equipment when they work with RLLD Commercial Lighting. As an impartial vendor that represents multiple manufacturers, we offer small companies and sole proprietors direct access to vendor relationships that would otherwise be out of their reach. These contractors enjoy tremendous freedom of choice when selecting architectural lighting fixtures, poles, mounting options, and accessories because we are an impartial vendor that is not required to fill any quotas for the manufacturers we represent. Because of this, our commercial clients will never be pressured into buying architectural lights from any one particular manufacturer. Rather, our specialists will help each client meet any design challenges and lighting regulation requirements needed to design a site lighting system, and then they will help that client find the best fixtures, lamps, and mounts most appropriate to the needs of the project at hand.

Architectural light experts at RLLD Commercial Lighting have been cross-trained in a number of fields which allows them to strategically balance the major considerations of safety, regulations, aesthetics, and on site security when helping develop school site lighting designs. Foremost in our thinking is the need to help contractors and engineers recession proof their projects by building ROI into the purchase order. We look for ways to increase lumens per watt efficiency by pointing out the best lamps, optic designs, and ballasts for optimal lighting output and stable regulation of current. We also have a rapidly growing inventory of LED architectural outdoor commercial lighting fixtures that stand poised to replace other types of lamps completely in the near future. This revolutionary technology can cut power usage by as much as 80% and offers additional benefits of longer lamp life and maintenance free, environmentally friendly operation.

Dark sky laws strictly control the amount of glare and potential light pollution that can be produced by architectural lighting. In order to avoid violating these codes, it is always a good idea to consult with an RLLD Commercial Lighting design specialist familiar with the laws of a given area. This will both familiarize you with a city, county, or state’s legal requirements, and it will offer you the added benefit of working with an expert who not only knows the facts, but also knows which fixtures which will offer the highest level of compliance combined with optimal performance.

Armed with this information, we can guide the general contractor, designer, civil engineer, and even freelance designer into a whole site architectural lighting design.

Architectural Building Lights
Our team knows which building lights will compliment architectural keynotes without overpowering its facade or shining unwanted glare into other buildings. Building facades are extremely important because they often bear the company brand. Many industrial buildings also paint their logo on the side of their warehouse. Our variety of wall-mounted architectural lights, sign lights, wall packs, and canopy lights makes it possible to keynote each of these building features without light spillage or excessive expense.

Architectural Landscape Lighting
Landscape lighting systems must work to extend the themes established by architectural lights into the general landscape beyond. This creates a sense of unity between human structures and Nature. It can also serve as a form of security lighting, because shadows often pool around building corners or courtyards between buildings. Keeping these areas illuminated minimizes the opportunity for burglars or vandals to approach the building unseen.

Parking Lot Lights
Parking lot lighting systems should be developed per wind load requirements in your area and foot candle minimums required by law. Dark sky laws must also factor into the equation so you can determine which light fixtures will best produce a glare free luminance contained within facility boundaries with no light spillage falling into surrounding streets and neighborhoods.

Parking Garage Lighting
Vertical footcandles are just as important to commercial parking lot lighting as horizontal footcandles are. Evenly distributed vertical light is essential to the depth perceptions drivers rely upon to safely navigate around obstructions within the garage. Determining the balance between vertical and horizontal footcandles usually requires special software that smaller companies may not be able to afford. These companies can gain equal footing with larger firms by letting RLLD Commercial Lighting input data into our software to produce a proposal that reflects mathematical accuracy and precision selection of lamp wattage and fixture placements.

The complexity of architectural lighting systems can quickly add up to a very costly expenditure that is strenuous to the budgets of mid-sized companies and frightening to small companies who are currently being hit hard by the recession. Low voltage equipment and fluorescent fixtures can be used to help many of these entities reduce power costs, and as LED lights continue to emerge, even more energy cost savings can be created by replacing traditional high pressure sodium and Metal Halide fixtures. For the convenience of contractors, licensed DYI lighting designers, and smaller organizations on tight budgets, RLLD Commercial Lighting also custom designs architectural lighting packages that feature of a blend of basic equipment and specialty equipment that can be adapted to any site lighting scenario.

RLLD Commercial Lighting experts stand ready to assist the client and the serious inquirer on a complimentary basis both through online channels and phone-based advisory services. General inquiries can also expect a high level of attention and expertise for a small, reasonable consulting fee. 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 facility is located in Houston, Texas with 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.

Business Building Lighting

RLLD Commercial Outdoor Lighting knows that Building Lighting contractors are facing some hard times ahead. With the recession getting worsening every month, there is talk of a depression going on everywhere from You Tube to the mainstream media. RLLD Commercial Lighting wishes to remind Building Lighting designers that even during the Great Depression of the 20th Century, many millionaires were made in spite of a worldwide economic crisis and a pending World War. We believe that American entrepreneurs, in the long run, will still have a very bright future, and we believe that our support of the Building Lighting manufacture and the business lighting designer can play a pivotal role in sustaining and moving prosperity forward even in the darkest of times.

That being said, we would like to discuss today the exact role we play in the business lighting world. To start with, we work in two directions to support the American lighting industry on an exclusive basis. As a distributor and vendor, we work only with manufacturers who are American owned and located within the United States. We hold to this policy both out of loyalty to our own country and domestic business partners and out of a sure belief that American made Building Lighting fixtures is still the very best in the world. Working in close partnership with American manufacturers affords us more ready access to thousands of fixtures, mounts, lamps, and accessories that can equip any lighting designer in the country with the exact model, size, and type light needed to fulfill the needs of a municipal, government, military, academic, or commercial client. It also allows us to expedite timely drop shipping of Building Lighting fixtures anywhere in the nation on the turn of dime, eliminating the problematic of foreign invoicing and time delays involved in overseas shipping and warehousing.

When it comes to the relationships we hold with our contractors in the world of Building Lighting, our position stands unique among our competitors. We are the only virtual lighting design agency that is able to work so closely with commercial lighting design firms in order to help them develop customized commercial lighting systems and expedite proposals that are both cost sensitive and technologically superior to those of their competitors. We are able to do this because we have invested heavily in training our staff extensively in the many sub disciplines inherent to both indoor and outdoor business lighting. Our sales personnel are also design personnel, and they can answer any question that you as a contractor bring to the table both from a technical standpoint and an aesthetic standpoint.

Furthermore, we have invested heavily in some of the most advanced photometric analysis software available to Building Lighting firms. This suite of programs enables us to take basic data regarding your client’s site and facility and generates from it a sophisticated, detailed, and visually compelling photometric analysis that you can both use to design your clients system on a point-by-point basis and then later lay alongside your proposal on your client’s table. These photometric analyses make fixture selection more precise and cost-effective for Building Lighting contractors. They detail all necessary foot candle levels mandated by local lighting laws (which research for you), document where fixtures need to be placed, and recommend optimal mounts to best control the direction of lighting and the minimization of light pollution.

These Building Lighting design services are free to any client or serious inquirers, and they can be obtained on an as need basis by others for a reasonable fee. We will also help recession proof your clients with the latest and most sophisticated energy saving outdoor lighting fixtures. We carry an enormous selection of high-tech energy efficient commercial lights designed for maximum power conservation, including the very latest in electronically ballasted commercial fluorescent lights, LED lighting, and induction lights.

By working in close partnership with you on your proposal, we will help you work wonders for your client’s operations budget, cutting costs without sacrificing the quality of amount of illumination in the process. Check out our Commercial lighting blog for helpful information on all types of parking lot lighting, athletic sport field lights, car dealership lighting systems, office lighting fixtures, outdoor security lighting and many other commercial lighting products.

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. Our headquarters is located in Houston, Texas with facilities positioned 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