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Most commercial buildings still have a ceiling full of 2x4 and 2x2 lay-in troffers with sound housings. Some still run fluorescent lamps. Others got an early LED retrofit that is already showing its age. Owners and facility managers are now hearing about tunable white from tenants, from designers on renovation work, and from wellness programs. What they are not getting is budget for ceiling demo, new grid, or plenum work in an occupied building. Read more

Most high bay retrofits start with a fixture count, not a photometric plan. Someone walks the floor, counts the 400W and 1000W metal halides still hanging, and needs a replacement that lands close on light level without paying to redesign the building. EiKO's HBX3 and BAYE3 round LED high bays are built for that job: one fixture, several wattage settings, and on some models, field-selectable color temperature. RelightDepot has limited stock of fo Read more

Enerlites has promo pricing on four devices most of us put in on every service upgrade and finish trim-out, now through October 31, a 2-pole whole-house surge protector, a humidity-sensing bath fan switch, a 15A tamper-resistant decorator receptacle combo, and a 30A generator power inlet box. Promo pricing covers the listed color on each item only, so check the finish before you build the order. What the October Enerlites Promo Covers Here is the Read more

The LRS-O Series is Westgate's field-selectable up-and-down wall sconce platform, built for multifamily and commercial exteriors that need one architectural fixture to cover multiple output levels and CCT calls without a separate submittal for each wattage. Unlike single-wattage decorative sconces that need a distinct SKU for every output level and a separate part number for each color temperature, the LRS-O is built on one platform across all th Read more

MaxLite's DSKL Series Disk Light ships in two sizes on one platform: a 4 inch, 10W model and a 6 inch, 15W model, both selectable across the same five color temperatures, 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4000K, and 5000K, and both TRIAC dimmable with a CRI of 90 or higher. The CCT selection happens at the driver, not by ordering a different part number, so switching sizes on a job doesn't mean switching how CCT gets set. Order the wrong CCT off a fixed-CCT S Read more

A two-tone ceiling cylinder shows up on a bid set for a reason. The designer wanted a decorative downlight detail instead of a plain black baffle, usually in a lobby, corridor, hospitality dining room, or a multifamily amenity space where the ceiling itself is part of the design story. Westgate's new CMC-2Tone Series gives an electrical contractor one platform to bid across that whole scope instead of three or four disconnected part numbers, and Read more

Pickleball and padel courts are going in fast right now, on park district budgets, HOA amenity upgrades, and multi-sport rec facility retrofits, and a lot of that work lands on contractors who have never bid a dedicated court lighting package before. The fixture that shows up on the plans is often a generic area light or flood light spec'd because it was available, not because it fits the court. Westgate's new SFP Series is built specifically for Read more

Bulkhead fixtures show up on more job types than most contractors give them credit for: apartment breezeways, hotel corridor exits, courtyard perimeter walls, back-of-house doors at retail and restaurant sites. The spec is usually simple, wall-mount, wet-location rated, dusk-to-dawn, but the SKU count behind that simple spec adds up fast once you factor in wattage, CCT, and finish. The Westgate BKH Traditional Bulkhead collapses most of that vari Read more

Undercabinet lighting on a commercial job usually comes down to one call made early in the rough-in: run low-voltage tape or pucks that need a remote driver location and a home run back to it, or specify a line-voltage fixture that carries its own driver and lands on a standard branch circuit. The new Westgate's UCLB series is built for the second path. It's a 120V direct-wire linear light bar with the driver built into the fixture body, CRI90 op Read more

One switch on top sets wattage and CCT on the RLB Series, Westgate's new selectable low bay. Pick 80W, 100W, or 120W, all at 140 LM/W, and 3000K, 4000K, or 5000K, on the same platform in black or white. Miss the call before the lift leaves the site, and the fix is a flip of that switch, not a return authorization. Two SKUs, RLB-80-120W-MCTP-BK and RLB-80-120W-MCTP-WH, replace what used to be eighteen part numbers to stock, on a housing that ships Read more