Illuminations Lighting and Design installs commercial sign lighting at entrances to subdivisions, hotels, high-rise buildings, golf courses, and other land based signage. We focus on creating commercial sign lighting that is tasteful, well shielded, and energy efficient. Sign companies value partnership with ILD because we enhance their workmanship with a universal aesthetic that accentuates the subtle points of differentiation that brand their workmanship. Property owners, developers, and landscape contractors seek us out because of our award-winning skills in concealing commercial sign lighting equipment in plant materials and unobtrusive positioning. Our work results in an illuminated radius extending from the signage itself that unites natural landscapes and corporate branding with key architectural elements such as monuments, columns, and gates. ILD Commercial sign lighting systems create a grand entryway of light that welcomes guests and distinguishes properties and organizations with sophistication, elegance, and a feeling of comfort and safety.
Making the decision to invest in commercial sign lighting requires a mindset that places high value on branding and advertising. We readily admit less expensive solutions saturate the marketplace in the form of self-installing kits and smaller organizations that specialize in billboard and over-building lighting. Our value lies in helping organizations create a superior first impression to residents, guests, clients, and even passing motorists who view our work. Land-based commercial sign lighting creates an illuminated display where the source of light remains hidden and theme and design assume a dominant position on the landscape. Our multiple partnerships with architectural and landscaping firms, and our five specializations of expertise in our own industry, enable us to congruently link and synthesize sign lighting with commercial exterior, landscape, and architectural lighting designs. This proves especially valuable for facilities with gated entrances and long, winding driveways, and adds mystique and sensibility to grounds and buildings alike.
Our Commercial sign lighting clientele covers a broad spectrum of industries, vertical markets, and physical locales. Almost any business with a land-based sing will benefit from highlighting their brand and logo to passing traffic and nighttime visitors. This highly effective form of advertising requires only a one-time investment in consulting services and equipment, and other than our optional maintenance agreement, requires no ongoing expenditures. Commercial sign lights prove invaluable to gated apartment communities and suburban developments. Bright, clear visibility increases security and diminishes the odds of criminal mischief and trespass. Our landscape and security lighting services can actually blend the entryway lighting into ornamental parking lot lights and special landscaping features surrounding the main driveway. On the very high-end of our service tier, five star hotels, resorts, and country clubs normally subcontracts us for a number of specialty services to ensure that our commercial sign lighting immediately creates mood and atmosphere that extends into the fairways, gardens, outdoor dining areas, building architecture, and interior lighting.
Guest and visitor parking areas enjoy enhanced security and safety from commercial sign lighting and entrance illumination. Attendees to evening events enter a realm of special effects and functional brilliance that sets the activities of the night apart from the stress of daytime working hours. Residents returning home to high rise residential facilities enjoy a feeling of safety and seclusion set definitively apart from glaring street lights and dark building shadows in the surrounding neighborhood. Commercial sign lighting can create the theme for an entire nighttime vista when interwoven with landscape accent lighting and tree canopy lighting, creating the optical effect of unity between human engineering and Natural beauty. With a touch of architectural lighting and moon shadow lighting, arches, waterfalls, and ornamental sculptures experience a mystical touch of light that appears to magically appear around individual forms and creates a symmetrical balance between signage, construction, outdoor decorations, and indigenous vegetation.
Illuminations Lighting and Design builds every lighting system custom to the individual client. ILD specialists work throughout greater Texas and also travel nationwide for selective high-end projects. Call 713-863-1133 for a complimentary consultation with our Vice President, Rick Luberger.
Labels: Commercial Site Lights, Hotel Landscape Lighting, Houston Texas Contractors, Outdoor Architectural Lighting
Commercial outdoor lighting systems are far more complex than they appear at face value. A multitude of factors influences the choice of equipment, placement of fixtures, and degrees of illumination appropriate to structures, terrain, and after-hours activity. Many companies fear the costs associated with outdoor commercial lighting and seek to reduce overhead with generic equipment. This creates more problems than it solves. Cheap fixtures and poor design creates blinding spots of glare that cast shadows, creating both an eyesore and a number of safety and security hazards. It is better to make a one-time investment in a system that comprehensively addresses the five key elements required for effective commercial outdoor lighting. As a single-source, multi-specialty vendor of the world's best equipment and design strategies, Illuminations Lighting develops outdoor commercial lighting designs that address these five major arenas and customizes each particular element to the specific size and style of the individual facility.
Security
Security ranks as top concern for building owners investing in outdoor commercial lights. Both vandalism and theft constitute a major risk of loss that proper lighting can do a great deal to help prevent. Particularly for organizations with night crews working on loading docks, or maintenance and cleaning crews entering and exiting the building in the dark, outdoor commercial lighting creates a safe work environment and provides visibility crucial to safety and awareness. Illuminations Lighting consults with building management to determine the extent of nighttime activity on property, and then combines perimeter flood lights and exterior lighting to ensure that all personnel on premises can clearly see their surroundings without being blinded by glare and without any shadows that could hide an intruder or lead to an injury in the dark.
Parking Lot Lighting
Appropriate visibility in the parking lot constitutes a major factor in commercial outdoor lighting. Parking lot lights are actually regulated by the government and by law must produce a minimum of four foot candles of light. Neglecting this element in a commercial outdoor lighting system not only places drivers and pedestrians at risk in the parking lot, it creates even further liability in the form of possible government fines. Illuminations Lighting and Design both tests lighting levels in parking lots and offers a wide variety of poles, lights, and fixtures to create bright, glare free outdoor lighting for commercial parking lots of all sizes.
Commercial Exterior Lighting
Exterior lighting constitutes a very critical element in commercial outdoor lighting systems as it illuminates all sides of the building and ensures that building access points are clearly lit in a balanced level of light that dispels shadows without glare. ILD designers utilize skills learned in architectural design cross training programs that enable them to link multiple buildings together in a field of natural-looking light that prevents unauthorized personnel from approaching the building without detection and also keeps walkways, sidewalks, and doorways in clear and constant view for nighttime visitors and workers. We also place additional, selective lighting around driveways and signs to ensure safe after-hours access for authorized vehicles and night deliveries.
Architectural Lighting
Hand in hand with exterior lighting is architectural lighting, which adds an aesthetic element to a commercial outdoor lighting system. Every building, regardless of size or builder design, features on or more unique points of differentiation that set it apart from surrounding structures. Because ILD has trained and worked for so many years with some of Houston's leading architectural firms, we are able to turn apparently ordinary structures into illuminated edifices of light that stand preeminent against the skyline and make a company stand out from its neighbors and competitors with a unique, impeccable appearance.
Landscape Lighting
As more and more smaller companies landscape their grounds to beautify and differentiate their property, and as increasing numbers of high-end clients look to upgrade and expand their commercial outdoor lighting systems, ILD completes almost every commercial lighting project with landscape lighting design combinations that work to highlight natural beauty and unite terrain with human engineering to create a synthesis of terrain and structure. After many years of partnership with Houston’s leading landscapers, we have perfected a technique of combining four distinctive layers of light that enables us to illuminate atriums and flower beds to water features and tree lines at high-end resorts.
By combining layered lighting and cost-effective energy saving technology in each of these five major arenas, Illuminations Lighting can Design an outdoor commercial lighting system for any company of any size, anywhere in Texas. Call 713-863-1133 now for more information and schedule a complimentary consultation to develop a custom, one-source solution.
Labels: Commercial Lighting Designers, Commercial Site Lights, Outdoor Architectural Lighting
Parking lot lighting represents an investment that every commercial entity must make to successfully operate a business. By law, every parking lot must have 3-4 foot-candles of light evenly distributed across the pavement. Businesses who ignore or neglect this requirement may find themselves subject to heavy penalties in the form of costly fines. Illuminations Lighting can eliminate any doubt regarding compliance with a simple test performed on a machine designed for this purpose. We can then upgrade the parking lot lights either to increase luminosity to legal levels or to more aesthetically illuminate the facility and add a decorative touch to the lot that compliments the architecture and landscaping of the property. Comfort, security, and aesthetics blend together in a unified field of light in any parking lot upgrade implemented by ILD's expert team of professionals.
Many people do not realize how detrimental glare can be to the human eye. Surprisingly enough, glare can actually aid criminal mischief because it prevents a person under attack from clearly seeing in the bright light reflected from fixtures, windows, and windshields. ILD can solve the problem of glare with parking lot lights housed in shoebox fixtures (so named because they look like shoe boxes.) These fixtures output the same level of light as do other fixtures but filter it in such a fashion as to disperse light photons just enough that they "wash" the parking lot in light rather than "beaming" intense light onto highly reflective metal and glass. Public squares, parks, restaurants, and nightclubs can improve their security with this simple upgrade that maintains both the welfare of customers and the reputation of the business as a safe place to be after dark. Upon client request, ILD team can take safety one-step further by linking the lights in the parking lot to the security system. We can install lights with sensors that automatically shine the lights from dusk till dawn, or we can link parking lot lights to a timer that turns them on the moment the office closes.
Parking lot lighting can be as ornamental as it is utilitarian when deployed by the expert designers at Illuminations Lighting and Design. Parking lot poles come in a number of sizes and styles that add a decorative touch that contributes to entertainment, romance, and luxury. For restaurants, shopping centers, and commercial facilities we normally install standard parking lot light poles that measure from 25 feet on up to 45 feet in height. This proves very cost effective for businesses with exceptionally large parking lots because a smaller number of tall poles cast a greater field of light across the pavement. For smaller lots adjoining parks, or for parking facilities surrounding luxury hotels, country clubs, and resorts, 12-16 foot poles with ornamental bases and fixtures add an elegant compliment to the lighting theme. Ornamental parking lot lights can be extended into the green space surrounding the pavement as well. In many public parks and private corporate parks one or two ornamental light poles placed adjacent to statuary and water features provides both a physically decorative element and an extra touch of light that accentuates foliage, sidewalks, streams, and walkway bridges.
Because parking lot lighting requires continuous power consumption, Illuminations Lighting helps reduce overhead by using metal halide fixtures that produce a very bright, white light and consume less power than do older, now outdated parking lot lights. While specialty lighting design, advanced technology, and ornamental housing do require an investment, the return on investment is well worth the upgrade. Reduced power costs and improved security that minimizes crime and possible, associated liabilities are cost benefits businesses and luxury facilities can clearly measure on their annual reports over the years to come. Call today for a personal consultation with Rick Luberger at 713-863-1133, to ensure that your parking lot lighting remains legally compliant and operates at maximum efficiency.
Labels: Commercial Parking Lot Lighting Services, Commercial Site Lights, Outdoor Site Lighting, Parking Lot Lighting, Security Lighting System
