Lighting Applications

Posted on the: May 4, 2018

The Top 10 Benefits of LED Lighting

Pound for pound, LEDs are far and away the very best type of light source around, for so many reasons. Pick a comparison point and LEDs outperform old-fashioned lighting types, such as halogen, high-pressure sodium (HPS), incandescent and fluorescent. LEDs are more versatile, last longer, provide better quality light, and[...]

Posted on the: May 2, 2018

7 Reasons Why Contractors Fail at Installing Linear Lighting

LEDs make for very attractive and efficient linear lighting options in commercial and retail spaces for building owners and users. But there’s a lot that can go wrong when installing linear lighting. Installation presents all kinds of headaches for the builders, from inaccurate architectural drawings to the fixtures bending during[...]

Posted on the: May 1, 2018

Amerlux, FSG Unlock $831B for Retrofits

Free Energy Audit Helps Cities, Companies Cut Energy with Avista Light Engine Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today its collaboration with Facility Solutions Group (FSG) to launch a free energy audit program that will help municipalities and companies take advantage of $831 billion in federal reimbursements to fund[...]

Posted on the: April 23, 2018

Elegant Linear Lighting: Why Lighting Designers Choose Amerlux

When it comes to lighting a space with beautiful and comfortable light, indirect light is ideal—it’s soft and diffuse without hot spots or glare. Lighting designers need high-quality lighting options to design optimal spaces for their clients. Lighting systems need to be functional and provide the right kind of light[...]

Posted on the: April 20, 2018

Flexible Linear Lighting Options: A Checklist for Lighting Designers

What makes good lighting? Like many thing things, it depends—on what the environment is and what the desired effect is. Because of varying challenges, lighting designers need flexibility from their lighting systems. The more flexible a lighting product, the more options the lighting designer has in creating the best possible[...]

Posted on the: April 17, 2018

Linear Lighting: A Checklist for Design-Build Firms

Design-build firms provide value to clients in the form of lower-priced building projects developed on a shorter timeline than traditional construction models. A design-build contractor will compress construction timelines by incorporating the design and construction teams together and beginning some construction during the design phase. To deliver projects on-time and[...]

Posted on the: April 16, 2018

Top 5 Design Snafus with Linear Lighting

When done right, linear lighting can make for spaces that are both efficiently lit and beautifully lit. However, not all linear lighting products are created equal and poor products make for poor lighting outcomes. When lighting designers choose the linear lighting products they need for a project, they need the[...]

Posted on the: April 11, 2018

Fewer Made-To-Measure Problems: Why Architects Choose Amerlux

When it is done well, made-to-measure is the ideal for commercial building tenants—they get exactly what they want and it looks and feels perfect. Making that perfect experience tends to come with a lot of headaches for architects though. When things are made to measure for a project, delays are[...]

Posted on the: March 27, 2018

Amerlux Launches High Bay 202 Pendant

Powerful LED Fixture Makes Groceries ‘Fresh’, Posh Clothing ‘Crisp’ Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today its new High Bay 202 Pendant, which makes a supermarket’s fresh food look mouth-watering and a retailer’s clothing eye-popping. Designed for open-ceiling concepts in retail and supermarket applications, the fixture boasts a prismatic[...]

Posted on the: March 27, 2018

How Design-Build Firms Find More Value for Clients

The design-build construction model offers customers a faster and lower-cost means of building, compared to the traditional design-bid-build model. Design-build firms accomplish this feat by merging the design and construction teams together, centralizing accountability and facilitating more efficient information-sharing. Commercial building projects are focused on ROI and design-build firms help[...]