How can we upgrade our building lights from older equipment to newer technology without having to remodel our exteriors?
Commercial communities can be upgraded with a number of commercial outdoor lighting fixture types that do not involve renovating buildings. If you have covered walkways between your buildings, a great way to provide lighting for safety and security is fluorescent canopy lighting. These fixtures have considerable lamp life and are very energy efficient. Canopy lighting can make your entire campus look full of light simply by illuminating spaces between buildings that would otherwise remain in the dark. The electrical work requires no reconstruction work on your part and can be done very easily by our electrical services team.
Similar to canopy lights, but mounted in a much different manner, are wall pack units. You probably already have some sort of wall-mounted fixtures affixed to the sides of your buildings. If these units are several years old, chances are they contain incandescent lamps that are costing you more money than you think both in terms of replacement costs and power consumption. Incandescents are also environmentally unfriendly, and they will all inevitably have to be replaced at some point in the future. Fluorescent fixtures are again the most cost effective equipment purchases for commercial lighting projects you can invest in, and they are also very good power savers.
For interior lighting design, there are countless retrofit options for everything from hallways to conference rooms and storage areas that we can cost effectively install within your office space. It is best to schedule a free on site with us to discuss these options so we can recommend the best possible retrofits without having to remodel your interior.
How much light do I need for security?
The intention of security lighting is to light only the buildings and ground without light spilling into neighboring businesses and homes. This alone can differentiate your commercial community with lighting, because more than likely you will be the first on your block to be proactive about dark sky friendly technology. In order to do this, it is necessary that you take the time to have a photometric lighting calculation made of your property. This will help us to determine how much lighting will be needed around areas such as buildings, public areas, walkways, and landscape features. Trying to light your commercial community without a photometric analysis is literally taking a shot at lighting in the dark. Most building owners get talked into over-lighting their premises, thinking brighter is better. The reality of lighting is very different. Typically speaking, a shadow-free environment that provides enough comfortable lighting for walking through the grounds is really all you need for security. The belief that blinding lights are the only lights effective in deterring crime is a myth. If cameras, guards, and law enforcement can simply see what is going on in your commercial community, then potential trespassers will be discouraged simply because they can clearly see they have no place to hide.
I need my property to look decorative as well as safe. Will it not cost a small fortune to invest in decorative fixtures?
It does not have to. Home security lights can be many things. Bollards installed in common areas can be a great way to illuminate large, open green spaces. Decorative bollards can be purchased from us in all shapes and sizes. Most of them are low-voltage fluorescent luminaires that use negligible amounts of power.
If you have fountain or pond, we can install energy efficient, or even LED lights, in and around the water. If installed professionally, lights around water features can appear magnified by the refractive qualities of water itself. This is another excellent way to illuminate commercial apartment community landscapes with very low-voltage, power saving lights.
Do you have energy efficient floodlights that can provide perimeter lighting at low costs?
Yes. Please give us a call to talk about some new technologies that can not only operate flood lights at a lower wattage with higher light output, but also better target the light toward only desired areas so that spill light beyond your property line is eliminated. Also, motion control sensor technology as well as integration with other security systems can automate your floodlights. Again, these are custom configurations which we can better address with an onsite consultation from an outdoor lighting contractor.
Illuminations Lighting Design is the only “One Stop” destination for lighting design, engineering, landscape lighting services and installation in the state of Texas, and remains unrivaled by any lighting firm in the United States for lighting that is art. As homes grow larger and needs become more complex, having a single resource provides home owners with peace of mind. This translates into a smoother process, reduced costs and a better product.
We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting and lighting design in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.
You can reach us toll free at 800-863-1184 or locally at 713-863-1133. Labels: Community Security Lighting, Houston Texas Landscape Lighting Services, Landscape Community Lighting, Outdoor Apartment Community Lighting
Townhome communities are in many ways a blend of residential communities and luxury apartment community living. Most townhomes are privately-owned, making them for all intents and purposes small houses that the homeowner can decorate, renovate, or upgrade at will. Deed restrictions apply in much the same way as they do to houses. Certain guidelines mandated by the homeowner’s association what can and cannot be done to an individual unit in terms of how it will affect the surrounding units. Most townhome exterior lighting, as a result, must be coordinated and paid for by the homeowner’s association that governs the townhome community. In order to fully satisfy both the needs of residents and an increasingly regulated industry, it necessary to work with a company like Illuminations Lighting Design that has both the electrical engineering expertise to safely and properly install equipment, and that also has the design background to create and aesthetically pleasing end result.
Parking areas in townhome communities require sophisticated parking lot lighting solutions that must meet with a variety of regulatory standards. One is foot candle minimums. By law, all parking lots must have a minimum of 4 foot candles per foot to be considered safe for vehicle and human traffic. In addition, the homeowner’s association should invest in commercial grade lighting fixtures with advanced optics engineering that will limit glare and spill light. In the future, we anticipate almost every city in the United States, regardless of size or geography, to adopt some form of dark sky legislation. Regardless of the current presence of such legislation in the surrounding city or countryside, it is wise for a townhome community to invest in outdoor street lighting that will illuminate the parking area without blinding the eyes of motorists and pedestrians, and without shining unwanted light into the windows of sleeping residents. In high-end communities where looks matter almost as much as safety and performance, decorative poles and fixtures can be installed that will comply fully with all governing codes and simultaneously create a better sense of home and comfort than the standard commercial lighting poles used to light the typical apartment complex or retail center.
Most townhome communities also invest a good percentage of their homeowner’s association fees in landscaping and gardening. Lighting design service professionals can help accentuate the many features of a landscape so that residents and guests can enjoy them throughout the evening and early morning hours. It is never a good idea to take the cheap route and attempt to have the lighting maintenance crew install retail-grade lighting fixtures in these areas. For one thing, cheaper lights have a shorter lamp life and will ultimately cost the association more in the long run when one factors in the replacement costs. They also tend to lack the necessary engineering required to for more sophisticated angles of light distribution. Certain elements of landscaping require very precise angles of incidence that only a commercial grade fixture can produce. Tree lighting, for example, requires specially-made mercury vapor lights designed to specifically emulate moonlight. It is almost impossible to find a retail equivalent of the type of fixtures we can obtain directly from world-class manufacturers. Other landscaping elements such as walkways and pathways can be effectively lit by outdoor path light fixtures that require only minimum power to produce exceptional safety and aesthetics. For the townhome community that is looking for lighting that can produce a long-term savings in the form of reduced replacement and energy costs, there really is no other option than commercial-grade, professionally installed fixtures.
Virtually every townhome complex has a community center that requires lighting in and around buildings and common areas. This is perhaps the most important aspect of townhome and apartment community lighting, because the community center is the very heart and soul of the complex and a hub for its many activities. A typical community center will have one or more sports areas, a swimming pool, a picnic area, and an office area for professionals and crew on staff. Very large town house complexes may have one or more tennis or volleyball courts for residents, and they may even have a meeting hall for resident meetings and indoor events. All of these areas in the townhome community will require lighting installation from an outdoor lighting contractor on a professional scale. Architectural and building should be carefully planned in such a way as to minimize replacement costs and to avoid excessive power consumption. Any sports lighting indoors or out will no doubt require commercial grade fixtures in order to create the necessary levels of light for safe play and to ensure a reasonable life expectancy for the fixtures themselves.
Because every townhome community is unique, any lighting system installed must be highly customized to meet the specific challenges of the environment and the personal tastes of the residents. It is almost impossible to create such a system without a photometric analysis of the property and an advance plan for design. One of the many advantages that ILD offers over competing contract firms is the ability to produce sophisticated layouts of commercial lighting systems for homeowner’s associations to review in advance prior to the initiation of the project or the installation of any equipment. New communities can trust Illuminations Lighting to not only do the job right, but to let them know up front the specifics of that job, the actual costs of labor and materials (without surprises), and the estimated return on investment in the form of lower maintenance and reduced power costs through superior technology which is longer lasting and much more energy efficient that short-cut, store-bought solutions.
Striking such a difficult balance between décor and safety is something that our commercial lighting projects have been doing in townhome communities, corporate office parks, residential neighborhoods, and private residences for over 27 years now. With a skillful blend of science and art, Illuminations Lighting Design can help any apartment or townhome community light its world with the highest level of quality and the best energy saving equipment available in today’s market.
Illuminations Lighting Design is the only “One Stop” destination for lighting design, engineering, landscape lighting services and installation in the state of Texas, and remains unrivaled by any lighting firm in the United States for lighting that is art. As homes grow larger and needs become more complex, having a single resource provides home owners with peace of mind. This translates into a smoother process, reduced costs and a better product.
We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting and lighting design in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond. Labels: Community Security Lighting, Outdoor Apartment Community Lighting, Outdoor Community Lights, Townhome Community Lighting, Townhome Exterior Lighting
Illuminations Lighting and Design offers employment and job opportunities for Houston, Texas journeyman and apprentice electricians with outstanding skills in communications, superb creative design ability, and demonstrable computer literacy. Unlike staffing-agency or temporary employment in Houston, TX, Illuminations Lighting Design recruits and hires direct.
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In many private mansions, upscale commercial properties or luxury resorts, LIGHT is understood in its functional aspects. Rarely is it understood in terms of its artistic qualities. Lighting is more than utilitarian—it is theater! How an object is illuminated is just as important as what is being focused upon. That is what makes Illuminations Lighting Design unique lighting resource. We combine practical experience with aesthetic taste to light the stage of your everyday experience and can turn those dreams into a custom lighting proposal. When it comes to your home or business, why settle for anything less?
Residential Lighting Design
Developing a residential lighting plan with the help of a professional lighting designer can both magnify the general appeal of your home’s physical structure and work to unify your lifestyle with your sense of art, decorating, and peace of mind. People often feel much more comfortable in their homes after they have taken the time to invest in planning a residential home lighting design services that will illuminate the finer elements of lifestyle and décor they have worked hard to give to themselves and their children.
Commercial Lighting Projects
Illuminations Lighting Design develops commercial lighting projects that systematically and completely address every aspect of task and decorative lighting. As a multi-service vendor specializing in 5 major disciplines, we offer businesses the unique and very cost-effective convenience of using our firm as a single-source vendor for their entire electrical and lighting design requirements. Our cross training in architecture, interior design, and landscaping further enable us to develop systems that layer lighting in a fashion that customizes every commercial lighting project to form, function, and utility. Most importantly, we develop some of the most cost-effective commercial lighting projects found anywhere as vendor of the world’s most sophisticated energy-saving outdoor tree lighting as well as parking lot lighting equipment that reduces overhead without sacrificing visibility, safety, or aesthetics.
Resort & Country Club Lighting
Lighting is a reflection of luxury. It combines the Universal, the functional, and the aesthetic in a phenomenon that is both a science and an art. Resort and Country Club lighting represents the highest level of sophistication found in the lighting design services industry, representing a synthesis of multiple disciplines applied in such a fashion as to separate and elevate the experience of a luxury resort to the level of the timeless and the impeccable.
Illuminations Lighting Design is the only “One Stop” destination for lighting design, engineering, landscape lighting services and installation in the state of Texas, and remains unrivaled by any lighting firm in the United States for lighting that is art. As homes grow larger and needs become more complex, having a single resource provides home owners with peace of mind. This translates into a smoother process, reduced costs and a better product.
We are located in Houston Texas but provide expert lighting services in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.Labels: Architectural Lighting Proposals, Custom Lighting Quotes, Houston Texas Landscape Lighting Services, Lighting Design Proposals
An apartment complex must have quality community lighting to maintain its business and its reputation. People will not stay around for very long when they cannot see well at night and do not feel safe. Property managers who are constantly wrestling with high turnover might want to pause and consider that it may be for this reason that so few tenants are choosing to renew their leases. These same managers may also want to consider as well the many liabilities that could result if inadequate lighting in the community contributes to an injury or criminal attack. Managers who leave it to maintenance to purchase and install lighting fixtures from retail sources are a great financial risk by placing short-term savings over long-term gains. Both the quality of equipment and design are always better when developed by a firm who specializes in community landscape lighting.
One of the most important places to light correctly in an apartment community is the leasing office. Burglars often target this building to steal money orders to cash on the black market. One burglary can literally result in an entire month’s rent being lost. Burglars can also use the rear entrance to the leasing office to gain access to a gated community if the lighting behind the building is poor or lacking. To prevent this, it is necessary for the entire structure to be surrounded by a perimeter of home security lighting, usually generated by a combination of building lights and motion-controlled sensor flood lights.
Common areas around laundry rooms, swimming pools, pet areas, and walkways leading through the apartment community are particularly vulnerable places because they are usually covered by the shadows of nearby buildings. Attempting to light these areas with cheap fixtures usually creates glare that disturbs residents. Managers often settle for leaving certain areas dark to avoid getting complaints. However, this does not need to be the case. Professional firms like Illuminations Lighting and Design install only specification-grade fixtures that are manufactured with special glare and light pollution control technology. These luminaires will only light specific areas in the community without spill light shining into people’s living rooms and bedrooms.
For high-end properties where aesthetics is an absolute must, community lighting must be superb and professionally done without cutting corners on equipment or installation procedures. This is particularly the case in high-end luxury apartment complexes that have invested heavily in professional landscaping. Water works like ponds, fountains, and waterfalls need special underwater outdoor lights that only trained professionals can install. To properly accent vegetation and outdoor sculpture, selective lighting blended with shadow is needed in order the three-dimensional forms of objects and plants. Otherwise, too much brightness distorts and flattens their appearance. Special up lights must be used in gardens, flowerbeds, and shrubbery areas. Large have to be lit with special tree-friendly outside tree lighting fixtures professionally installed in concealed places in their branches. At the same time, any scenic pathways in the apartment community need lighting for security and safe visibility that blends harmoniously with the decorative elements surrounding it.
Striking such a difficult balance between décor and safety is something that our commercial lighting projects have been doing in apartment communities, corporate office parks, residential neighborhoods, and private residences for over 27 years now. With a skillful blend of science and art, Illuminations Lighting and Design can help any apartment community light its world with the highest level of quality and the best energy saving equipment available in today’s market.
Illuminations Lighting Design is the only “One Stop” destination for lighting design, engineering, landscape lighting services and installation in the state of Texas, and remains unrivaled by any lighting firm in the United States for lighting that is art. As homes grow larger and needs become more complex, having a single resource provides home owners with peace of mind. This translates into a smoother process, reduced costs and a better product.
We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting and house lighting plans in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.Labels: Apartment Community Lighting, Architectural Lighting Houston Texas, Outdoor Community Lighting, Outdoor Landscape Community Lights, Residential Community Lighting
An increasingly large number of residential communities are more like cities unto themselves. They have their own security patrols, restaurants, country clubs, and shopping malls. Many have their own schools as well. As such, the many amenities included in such a residential community is paid for mostly by the homeowner associations that govern the neighborhood. Since most are technically unincorporated, the municipality in which they reside typically provides rudimentary street lighting. All other areas within a residential community, however, will require architectural outdoor lighting systems that are custom designed and privately funded to ensure that public areas are both safe and aesthetically pleasing.
Perhaps the best example of this is the residential community center that you normally find at the heart of such a neighborhood. The community center is usually more than a single building. It consists of a number of facilities grouped together. Everything from public meetings, administration, special events, and after-school programs are held at residential community centers. Lighting these areas effectively requires an advanced understanding of interior and exterior architecture, along with the most energy efficient fixtures available in the commercial lighting marketplace. Superior optical design is also necessary to guarantee compliance with dark sky regulations that limit light pollution. Planning committees serve themselves best when they invest in the best equipment and lighting designs services up front. It only costs more money down the line to have to replace inferior fixtures which burn out unexpectedly or that fail to remain in compliance with new legislation.
Most residential communities know a lighting or electrical contractor services provider who has all the necessary skills to install this type of equipment. However, many independent contractors working on a limited local scale often lack an extensive vendor network. They may only carry lighting fixtures from two or three major manufacturers, and as such can offer only a limited amount of options to a community.
One the other hand, a residential lighting and design firm like ILD will typically represent dozens of world-class US manufacturers. This allows access to literally thousands of luminaires and gives residential communities a full set of options to consider. Residential landscape lighting systems can be highly customized to any building or landscape as a result, and cost-savings can be built into the proposal by locating the fixtures that offer the best distribution of light with the lowest possible power consumption that today’s technology will allow.
Planning committees can actually participate in designing and planning their outdoor lighting, parking lot lighting and indoor lighting systems when they work with a professional firm that will itemize the features, advantages, benefits, and cost of each piece of equipment proposed in the system.
This goes hand in hand with the evolution of residential communities continue to evolve into self-contained spheres of living space, open space, and public space. As neighborhoods become more autonomous and introspective, the importance of both safety and aesthetics in community lighting systems increases proportionally. Working with a company like Illuminations Lighting and Design offers private subdivisions and custom home developments the opportunity to create a world of light within their neighborhood that meets their community needs on a highly personalized level and speaks directly to the values and the lifestyles of its residents.
Illuminations Lighting Design is the only “One Stop” destination for lighting design, engineering, landscape lighting services and installation in the state of Texas, and remains unrivaled by any lighting firm in the United States for lighting that is art. As homes grow larger and needs become more complex, having a single resource provides home owners with peace of mind. This translates into a smoother process, reduced costs and a better product.
Illuminations Lighting Design is a full service design build firm specializing in residential and commercial indoor lighting and outdoor lighting, electrical service and maintenance as well as home automation, home theaters, emergency generators, surge protection systems, phone systems and lighting control systems.
Feel free to call us at 800-863-1184 or locally at 713-863-1133.
We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting and house lighting plans in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.
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