Industrial Lighting Design & Designers

How do we define industrial lighting design?
Industrial lighting design is defined as the systematic planning of fixture selection and installation. This planning involves the creation of a lighting fixture, photometric layout that includes fixture placement locations, luminance specifications, and diagrams indicating the presence and nature lighting controls.

Upon request, industrial lighting designs can be rendered into 3D images of the facility that show what the location will look like under new light.

What businesses need a professional industrial lighting design?
As a GSA Advantage lighting vendor, any military or government entity can certainly benefits from one of these plans. Manufacturers that rely upon specified levels of glare free light for safety can also greatly benefit from investing in a design before purchasing. Another industry that seems to come to us quite frequently are those with outdoor parking lot lighting needs.

How can RLLD fulfill this role?
By designing a commercial lighting system first, we can offer you significant savings by showing you exact amounts of light needed by different parts of your facility. There is no point in over lighting a parking lot or anything on your property, nor will you need to worry about doing so ever again, because the design plans out your new system using sophisticated software that does these calculations at the speed of light.

What do you need from us to create an industrial lighting design for our building? Please tell us as much as possible about each type of task that is performed in your building and around your building exterior. This is the most important part of the process—the creation of appropriate, reliable, and affordable task lighting design. Send us elevation plans and a plan view in AutoCAD format.

Using your description of your process flow requirements and the data you send us in file form, we can then calculate your lighting levels and determine your equipment requirements.

What options in design and beyond design do we offer clients?
Every client has the option of simply buying an industrial lighting design from RLLD Commercial Lighting and having their local electrician attempt source the equipment and install it from them. Clients interested in getting the very best American-made light fixtures and accessories from us will have the cost of the photometric deducted from their final invoice.

Clients also have the option of seeing the proposed outdoor parking lot lighting plan in three-dimensional form if so needed for decision making or showing to vested partners and procurement supervisors.

RLLD will help you select the very best fixtures for every detail of the plan, and we will also work with your local contractor as a consultant on retainer if they need specific technical information on the installation and configuration of our equipment.

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 design studio is located in Houston, Texas with distribution centers 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.

Industrial Lighting Systems

How do you define a lighting system?
An industrial lighting system is defined as a group of commercial electrical lighting equipment and controls that works together to perform a cohesive function.

What fixtures and accessories make up a typical industrial lighting system?
In factories and warehouses, high bay lights are used to provide general overhead lighting. Exit lighting is needed in every building to show where doorways are located. Operations that require assembly work require task lighting with higher visibility and minimized glare. Emergency lights also need to be installed over doorways in case the power goes out.

In office areas, call centers, and break rooms, HID lights or fluorescent lights represent the majority of the light fixtures used in interior industrial commercial lighting systems. Lighting equipment that is used indoors can only be used within the four walls of the building. This is because they are engineered to function only in humidity free environments. In moist air or heavy rain, they will not last for very long.

Outdoor light fixtures are far more durable. They are wet location rated, which means, in laymen’s terms, that they are designed to weather high humidity, rainfall, and even thunderstorms in places.

The diversity of fixture options available to a business is a clear indicator of how important it is to contract a lighting design specialist to plan and configure your industrial lighting system. Such a specialist will know exactly what type of equipment you need, and where it needs to be mounted.

What businesses require entire lighting systems?
All commercial entities, regardless of whether or not they carry the technical label of “industrial”, need industrial lighting systems. Retailers, office parks, warehouses, and factories all need both interior and exterior light fixtures. Corporate headquarters especially need the very best systems to reflect their brand and corporate culture.

How are these systems designed?
The design of indoor industrial lighting systems is accomplished through a series of specific steps. The first step is to figure out what type of task will be performed in a given area and how much light that particular task will require.

The nature of the task is very important. Office work, for example, requires general fluorescent lighting. Hallways require some light, but only enough for safety—not high visibility. Assembly work and machine work require the brightest light for maximum visibility, safety, and productivity.

Determination of lighting levels is based upon both general and specific factors. General factors are derived from general design guidelines that fall within IES codes. Specific parameters are customized to the environment and task at hand.

Each client is asked to send a plan view and an elevation view of the facility in AutoCAD format so the industrial lighting designer can feed this information into the software platform that in turn generates a photometric layout and 3D rendering of the new system.

How are different types of fixtures chosen and installed together in relationship to one another?
That depends on several factors. The size of the building and the type of industry are factors that weigh heavily on the number and intensity of fixtures. Furthermore, different areas within and around the building will need different levels of light that also have to be factored into the equation. Ceiling height is also a factor in lighting design.

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 professional lighting supply 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.

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.

Industrial Commercial Lighting Fixtures

Many industries need commercial industrial lighting. Factories need special types of commercial industrial lighting for illuminating both their exterior grounds, their indoor shipping and receiving bays, production areas. Warehouses need reliable, efficient fixtures that feature an ease of maintenance and long life.

Retail centers and outdoor malls must have the very best parking lot lights, mounts, and poles to maintain customer safety and to remain in compliance with government regulations that regulate foot candle levels and wind resistance. Parking garages have to have specialized outdoor light systems that will evenly illuminate winding aisles of up and down drive ramps without creating glare that will blind the eyes of motorists.

Roadways require street lights that produce similar levels of glare free light so people can safely drive at night. These roadways can be city streets, county highways, or private drives that runs through a office parks, municipal districts, or college campuses.

Commercial industrial lighting fixtures come in all types of intensity levels and configurations. Their designs are based upon where they are used. High bay and low bay lighting is prevalent in factories and warehouses and illuminates manufacturing and storage areas. High bays and low bays have also made considerable inroads into sports lighting with new metal halide technology that makes them ideal for lighting gymnasiums.

Any number of wall mounted fixtures can be used for outdoor building lighting and security lighting. These commercial light fixtures can be as decorative and highly energy efficient as they are practical—provided that are made by American companies that stand behind their work and who offer more than just a few size, trim, and color options so that fixtures can be matched to building architecture and intended use.

Floodlights are crucial to commercial industrial lighting for security. A number of new reflectors and lamps have emerged with the advent of pulse start MH technology. These new lights can be operated by either timers or motion sensors.

Parking lot lights rank among the most important types of outdoor architectural lights. Trusted US Manufacturers create a multitude of intensities and reflector types that can distribute foot candles in many different patterns and levels of intensity appropriate to location and size of the parking lot. Commercial lighting poles, particularly galvanized steel lighting poles, are often critical to the optimal performance of these fixtures and should also be purchased from American manufacturers through a design-vendor firm such as RLLD Commercial Lighting.

In order to be effective, commercial industrial lighting has to be approached from the standpoint of building a system that will address several major concerns at once. First, the system must produce a desired amount of light to evenly illuminate a facility and create working conditions that are optimal for safety and production. Ideally this system should be an energy efficient light and use as little power as possible in the production of this light, so this balance between luminance and power consumed is called the lumens per watt ratio.

The best commercial industrial lighting jobs, then, are naturally those with higher lumens per watt ratio. Such fixtures can be trusted to use only so much power in the performance of their task. They should be manufactured in the United States as well in order to obtain superior warranty and replacement parts in the event of accidental breakage.

RLLD Commercial Lighting offers parking lot lighting, tennis court lighting, energy efficient indoor and outdoor architectural lighting fixtures, photometric lighting design, supplies and sales of sports field, landscape, security, and area parking lot 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. We welcome will work hard to educate youm provide a 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.

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