Industrial Office Lighting Fixtures

No matter what type of facility you work in, you have office space of some kind in the building. Inside this space, your employees need optimal lighting for comfort and productivity.

If you purchase second-rate industrial office lighting fixtures, you could inadvertently create a negative workspace. To get the most out of your equipment, you will need to consult with experts who can a photometric plan that tell you what commercial lighting products will work best for your particular application. This plan will also show exactly how many fixtures you will need and where your electrician will have to install them.

In previous decades, people often got very tired in the workplace because of poor lighting conditions. Eye strain would cause fatigue because of the poor quality of older generation indoor fluorescent lights. These industrial lights had poor power due to older magnetic ballasts.

Also, the bulbs in those lamps contained a mixture of gases and metals that would shine a slightly yellowish glow on the room that would add to the stress of labor and task as employees work in an increasingly uncomfortable work environment.

If your industrial fluorescent lights are more than ten years in age, you may need to install a new industrial office lighting system for the betterment of your employees. Features that you need to look for in these fixtures are easy maintenance access to bulbs and ballasts.

Also, it is wise to spend a little extra money on the more energy efficient lamps. They will help you save money on operating costs by consuming less electricity, and their longer lamp life will mean fewer bulb replacements and correspondingly lower maintenance costs.

Some ceiling-mounted industrial office lighting fixtures still use the traditional tube shaped fluorescent lights. Wall mounted lights render color much better than their predecessors ever did. You no longer have to deal with that yellowish look to skin and clothing. With yellow light no longer present, eyestrain is gone as well. The brighter light these fixtures emit also helps them to work more productively.

If you choose something other than fluorescent lighting fixtures for your industrial commercial office lighting, but you still want the benefits offered by energy efficient of fluorescent bulbs, you can use traditional lights that require screw-in incandescent bulbs retrofitted with fluorescent replacements.

By replacing these incandescents with compact fluorescent light bulbs, you can lower your energy costs, and, depending upon the number of lights you replace, lower room temperatures in your office. This is due to incandescent lighting’s tendency to wastes so much energy in the form of excess heat. This can affect your air conditioner thermostat and cause your building cooling costs to rise.

Energy savings is the most important thing to think about when you are choosing your industrial office lights. You need the help of an industrial GSA lighting expert who can locate brightest of lights for the least amount of energy used. Call RLLD Commercial Lighting to get started with this process today.

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. We welcome will work hard to educate you and provide a lighting design, establish a budget and provide the lighting goods to do the job!

Our photometric lighting design office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including San Juan, PR (SJU), Isla De Vieques, PR (VQS), Fajardo, PR (X95), Erie, PA (ERI), Killeen, TX (ILE), Sheridan, WY (SHR), Casper, WY (CPR), Parkersburg, WV (PKB), and Escanaba, MI (ESC). We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. ALBQ, NYC, LA, MPLS.

Commercial 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)