Commercial Lighting Contractors

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Commercial Lighting Contractors

• Landscape Lighting ContractorsMany landscape
  lighting contractors are sole proprietors who
  rely on a handful of employees or a pool of
  subcontract labor. As such, they may not appear
  large enough in the eyes of major manufacturers
  to qualify for preferred vendor status. Having
  to pay more for commercial and specification
  grade equipment than do many larger companies,
  landscape lighting contractors may at times feel
  tempted to use imported products or retail grade
  outdoor lighting fixtures to pass on savings to
  their clients and maintain their own profit
  margins.

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• This never pays off in the long run for either
  the landscape lighting contractor or the client
  because inferior grade materials and retail
  substitutions of commercial grade fixtures will
  not perform with optimal efficiently, nor will
  they withstand the pressures of the elements for
  any extended period of time. The money saved on
  the front end will be spent later on high energy
  bills and replacements costs.

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• There is a better alternative to this --- and one
  that will pass on both savings and long-term
  return on investment to both landscape
  contractors and clients alike.
• Because we hold preferred vendor status with
  manufacturers of top commercial grade landscape
  lighting equipment made only in the USA, and
  because we rely upon no complicated system of
  warehousing or shipping through expensive third
  party agencies, we can pass on wholesale prices
  to the small independent contractor in landscape
  lighting design and give that individual access
  to both products and prices that only larger
  firms enjoy through privileged relationships.

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• This allows the independent lighting designer to
  now compete with larger companies on a level
  playing field by proposing systems that feature
  the best engineering quality, luminance output,
  and energy efficiency ratings found anywhere in
  the world.
• We sell only specification grade commercial
  lighting products made in the U.S.A.
• This is because imported lighting equipment may
  have questionable origins and quality assurance
  standards that make any promises made by the
  landscape lighting contractor problematic in
  terms of an ideal outcome. Many products, though
  very inexpensive, have little documentation of
  quality control and little if any warranty. They
  are therefore unreliable components to prose to
  commercial clients

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• Retail grade fixtures have similar issues,
  primarily with the quality of the materials used
  to build them and the engineering of optical
  controls within the fixtures. Generally
  speaking, retail grade fixtures will not use
  power as efficiently as commercial grade
  equivalents, nor will they offer the same glare
  shielding and reflectors that are essential to
  controlling the beam and minimizing light
  pollution. Landscape lighting contractors who
  install retail grade fixture may end up raising
  an already high light bill for their clients, or
  even place them in violation of dark sky laws.

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• These concerns are eliminated simply by using
  equipment already designed and tested to be the
  best. American made landscape lighting fixtures
  and accessories will add credibility and
  certainty to any contactor proposal. These
  products are designed to maximize a clients
  return on investment by using less energy than
  the lights they are installed to replace and to
  save the client money on future replacement costs
  by working reliably for the entirety of their
  anticipated lifespan. Should anything go wrong
  with a piece of equipment, there is a full
  manufacturers warranty on each part passed on to
  each client as a secondary benefit of working
  with RLLD.

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• New landscape lighting contractors who work with
  RLLD Commercial Lighting can take the lead
  immediately in their industry by taking advantage
  of partnership with RLLD. Our voluminous
  inventory contains virtually every fixture
  imaginable, and most can be customized to some
  extent or the other in glare shielding and
  reflector configurations. At the end of the day,
  this only gives the lighting designer more
  options to propose, and more power of proposal
  with a cost cautious client.

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• Take Advantage of RLLD Commercial Lighting
  Consultation and Planning Services
• If you are a small landscape lighting company, we
  can help you either work like a large company or
  ultimately expand into a large company through
  some key and highly advantageous partnership
  opportunities we offer to landscape lighting
  contractors. Foremost among these services is
  access to very high-end and sophisticated
  lighting design software that is used to generate
  photometric analyses of commercial properties and
  structures. This software, though often beyond
  the price range of a small company or startup
  lighting design firm, can be make readily
  available to any client of RLLD. All a landscape
  lighting contractor needs to provide our staff
  with is basic data about the clients location,
  which we will then use to generate a systematic
  and itemized plan of action.
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• This analysis often helps a contractor outcompete
  a larger landscape lighting company that may have
  neglected to conduct such an analysis in their
  estimate of services.
• Landscape lighting contractors can also avoid the
  negatives of lost time and parts shortages by
  working with RLLDs staff of lighting design
  experts. Because we work with the largest US
  manufacturers on a nationwide basis, we can
  bypass the polyglots of local parts shortages and
  kinks in the chain of regional distribution. Our
  specialists will find the landscape contractor
  the best possible products to use in their
  projects, and we will do all the research
  necessary to ensure full compliance with local
  energy and light pollution regulatory codes.

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• Call 1-800-239-2939 now to talk to a specialist
  about your next proposal, and let us help you
  help your client with equipment build to last
  with superior luminance and reliability in
  aesthetics, functionality, and energy efficiency.