Electical Contractor

Final results of a four-year landmark building lighting study by the National Association of Lighting Management Companies (NALMCO) provides a roadmap for achieving potential savings of 10 percent of the lighting costs or more––or from $2.7 billion to $3.6 billion in savings annually––for many build

Fires take the lives of thousands of people each year. In 1998 and 1999 alone, 4,035 and 3,570 civilian fire deaths occurred in the United States.

For decades, lighting designers, specifiers, contractors, and distributors regarded halogen lamps as best-suited for outdoor applications or as accent and display lighting. Their bright, striated light caused “sparkle,” but was far too harsh for general lighting purposes.

While cause and effect drives science, cost and effect is increasing what drives specifying for outdoor lighting.

Electrical contractors, rather than architects, engineers, or lighting consultants, are often asked to design/build lighting in commercial, institutional, residential, and industrial structures.

With great interior design, less is often more. Smaller is often better than bigger. Designers and end-users want lighting fixtures that are diminutive and unobtrusive, but they do not want to sacrifice the strength or efficiency of lighting sources.

Landscape lighting can be an added revenue source for electrical contractors at many project sites. While not cut-and-dry, it can be a manageable and profitable way to increase the scope of work at a site where you already have a good working relationship.

Security is a hot topic, thanks to the burst of millennium warnings. And, it's a hot opportunity to sell security lighting products. The turn of the century brought security discussions to television and newspaper front pages.

"The last great mystery"--that is what one contractor called the game of managing lighting materials for the average new construction project.