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Obtaining a photometric lighting report on your client's property is a good first step to take toward ensuring maximum efficiency of the lighting system you install and maximum long-term client satisfaction with the operability and overall aesthetic impact of that system. Photometric analysis software, unfortunately, is often far outside the price range of small lighting design firms and independent electrical contractors. Typically, only larger lighting design and electrical firms have the budget to purchase photometric analysis software and to train their employees in its proper use. Smaller companies and sole proprietors are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to proposing new equipment—that is, unless they can find a partner company who has photometric analysis software that can generate reports for them.
This is precisely why RLLD Commercial Lighting offers photometric lighting analysis reports to our clients. We aim to give the independent contractor and the small lighting design company a competitive advantage in a marketplace too often dominated by large firms. Using this software, we can create one or more reports on your client's location that will enable you to select the very best luminaires for your client's new system. Such factors as facility and landscape square footage, vertical cube space, and the general layout of your client's facility is input into our photometric analysis software first. This data is then used to generate foot candle charts and photometric reports that pinpoint the very best locations to install lighting fixtures. These reports can then printed either as technical spec sheets and as user friendly documents complete with pictures and general descriptions for end user review. Having a document like this to show to your client adds power to your proposal, and shows your client that you have thoroughly understood their needs and done your homework in response.
For indoor lighting design, photometric analysis software allows us to work on a room by room basis. You can have us run different scenarios through the system according based on either hypothetical luminance levels or fixtures in the room. We can also try different angles for fixture placement and vary lumens levels within the 3-D model to identify potentially dark areas created by light levels and inadequate placement. Understanding where objects in the room may cast shadows helps not only determine what types of luminaires you will need, but also pinpoints the best angles of incidence from which to install them.
Because we supply luminaires from a number of different manufacturers (all based in the United States), it is important to consider all possibilities before making a final choice. What may be the best fixture to use in a small, stand alone office building may not be the best choice for a multi-building site location or corporate office park. Every manufacturer offers unique fixture designs and energy efficiency safeguards, and lamp life varies as well between the various proprietary designs.
Our software actually contains manufacturer's spec sheets and engineering documents on specific fixtures in different categories. We can generate a luminaire comparison report instantly that details optics, lumens per watt efficiency, and expected lamp life. Cross referencing light levels and fixture placement reports with specific data on each fixture made by a leading US lighting manufacturer hones the effectiveness of the photometric analysis to a razor-edge precision.
While we do charge a fee for photometric analysis, we refund the amount in full should you move forward in a business relationship with RLLD Commercial Lighting and purchase your equipment from us. Casual inquirers and companies seeking adjunct support are nonetheless welcome to call us and purchase a report to use in any project and are under no obligation to buy commercial lighting products in conjunction with the report.
Commercial Lighting Design services by RLLD Commercial Lighting are intended to provide adjunct support to the contractor to expedite the planning stages of a proposal. By precision approach to procurement that minimizes the margin of error in selecting the right fixtures for the right job, we aim to help the client and the contractor get more for their monies worth, we seek to implementing a systematic,. Professional commercial lighting design firms have come to trust RLLD Commercial Lighting's design experts as virtual extensions of their consultation and planning teams. RLLD Commercial Lighting account managers proactively help to develop solutions for commercial lighting clients, designing entire systems from the ground up so the contractor can save man hours on calculations and schematics and focus more energy on negotiations to win the bid.
We are able to bring this service to our clients because of some very special commercial lighting design software programs we have purchased. These programs allow us to input basic data pertaining to your client's site directly into our computers. The software then interprets this data and renders a complete photometric analysis of your client's building and surrounding property. This valuable design layout details such critical factors as mandatory foot candle minimums for parking areas and outdoor recreation areas. It also shows the best places for you to install fixtures to achieve these lighting levels, and it shows the best ways to mount these fixtures for optimal results.
This approach to commercial lighting design is an ideal way to win a bid in the midst of a recession. Its focus on precision procurement as opposed to bulk procurement takes a realistic approach to equipment itemization and costs. RLLD Commercial Lighting believes you should design a system with no less and no more lighting equipment than is absolutely necessary. While in the past making such an exact determination may have meant many hours of painstaking calculations, this is no longer the case. With a photometric analysis, you can literally see where the lights need to go and quickly determine the exact nature of the fixtures your client will need by asking three basic questions:
1. Where is the fixture located?
2. What does the fixture light?
3. How is the fixture mounted?
If you are still uncertain which fixtures will be best after you have looked at each of these three factors, your commercial lighting design specialist can recommend commercial grade and specification grade fixture options that will bring superior results to your client's table. We have a huge inventory of HID lights, including the new pulse start metal halide lights that feature some of the most advanced reflectors and optics in the lighting industry. Such manufacturing quality is critical if you are working in an area heavily regulated by lighting control regulations and dark sky laws. By proposing fixtures that are made specifically for better directional control of lighting and glare reduction, you place your client in the best possible light without annoying nearby residents and business owners with light pollution.
RLLD Commercial Lighting design experts can also equip your proposal with the latest energy saving outdoor fluorescent area lights and low voltage landscape lighting fixtures. This will work wonders for your client's budget, cutting costs without sacrificing the quality of amount of illumination in the process. We also provide you with a complete selection of high-tech energy efficient commercial lights designed for maximum power conservation. We inventory induction lighting for indoor and outdoor commercial lighting, and LED light designed for commercial outdoor lighting, parking lot lighting, street lighting, area lighting, and commercial indoor lighting.
All of our commercial lights are designed and manufactured in the United States. No foreign manufactured products will ever darken our invoice. RLLD Commercial Lighting believes in supporting and recession proofing the American manufacturer as well as the American commercial lighting design specialist. All adjunct lighting design services are free as well to clients and serious inquirers, and they are also available for a reasonable fee to casual inquirers and those in need of occasional assistance.