MAKING LIGHT WORK ™
“LIGHT IS NOT SO MUCH SOMETHING THAT REVEALS, AS IT IS ITSELF THE REVELATION.” James Turrell American Artist
YOUR PROFESSION: DESIGN. YOUR MEDIUM: LIGHT. YOUR CRAFT: PART PHYSICS. Your tools: Free and abundant sunlight. Manmade instruments of illumination. Sources of useful light inspired by those who practice lighting design and innovated by a company who, like you, appreciates light’s full potential. The potential to inform, to influence, to inspire, to improve the human condition. For more than 75 years, Litecontrol has been the commercial lighting professional’s leading partner in design. From its early innovations in wall/slot lighting, to today’s advanced LED fixtures, Litecontrol remains committed to delivering the widest palette of tools and comprehensive services to maximize the power of lighting design and to minimize electric lighting’s environmental impact. 2
PART PSYCHOLOGY. ALWAYS ARTFUL. Explore Litecontrol now and discover a company making light work – for lighting designers, architects, building owners and operators – but most importantly, for those who are learning, or working, or healing within the spaces where you find Litecontrol.
THIS IS LITECONTROL - MAKING LIGHT WORK.
Litecontrol is committed to lighting design education and training. The Litecontrol Robert W. Danforth Lighting Center is a 15,000 square foot education, demonstration and mock-up facility located in Massachusetts where professionals explore the impact of quality lighting using full-scale classrooms, offices, labs, retail spaces and hospital rooms. Additionally, Litecontrol boasts one of the industry’s most comprehensive curriculum of AIA CES and NCQLP continuing education programs. Sample a Litecontrol continuing education program. 3
“THE PURPOSE OF LIGHT IS TO CREATE MORE LIGHT, TO OPEN PEOPLE’S EYES, TO REVEAL THE MARVELS AROUND.”
Paulo Coelho Brazilian Lyricist/Novelist
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Lighting designers can employ light to create predictable human emotional and behavioral outcomes. A designer’s choice of lighting tools and techniques for a given space determines how people feel about, move through and function within a space. This is why the building design community will continue to rely on the professional lighting designer, and why professional lighting designers will continue to rely on Litecontrol as a preferred partner in their craft.
For LED fixtures to look their best, it is essential that each individual LED used in a fixture be highly similar in chromaticity. Demanding better color uniformity from a fixture than those derived from ANSI standards, Litecontrol matches LED color temperature within each fixture by its own standard – more than four times as stringent as ANSI. Watch a video on our new LED fixture platform.
Today, Litecontrol offers designers the industry’s most complete range of interior commercial lighting fixtures and controls for fluorescent and LED platforms. This holistic toolset includes pendant, recessed and ceiling-mounted fixtures for lighting horizontal work surfaces , in addition to wall/slot, cove and wall-mounted fixtures for lighting the spatial envelope. Designers appreciate Litecontrol’s attention to fixture styling and detailing, wide ranging aesthetics, willingness to provide customized solutions and commitment to offering lighting solutions for all budget levels.
IN THE HANDS OF A PROFESSIONAL, LIGHT IS POWER.
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“THE TANTALIZING THING IS NOT ALWAYS THE SOURCE OF LIGHT, BUT THE EFFECT OF LIGHT.”
Edward Degas French Artist
TO INFORM TO INFLUENCE TO INSPIRE TO IMPROVE THE HUMAN
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Litecontrol conforms useful new technology to the art and science of lighting design - never the other way around. When Litecontrol introduces a new lighting technology, you can be sure it has been fully vetted for satisfying all requirements of the design community aesthetic, photometric, and economic. Such is the case with LED technology.
Litecontrol’s Mainstream™ fixture housing also serves as an efficient heat-sink for LEDs, maximizing their lifespan. Mainstream’s accolades include a prestigious Green Good Design Award and recognition in the Department of Energy’s Next Generation Luminaires competition. Learn more about innovative Mainstream.
To realize the promise of LED in commercial lighting design - its vastly superior energy-efficiency and lifecycle - requires companies like Litecontrol to engineer entirely new fixture platforms in close coordination with leading LED manufacturers. For Litecontrol, this approach has resulted in new LED fixtures that produce the highest degrees of color consistency and rendering, maximum lifespans, and minimal energy consumption. Most importantly, these fixtures also provide the means for designers to provide exactly the right quality, quantity and location of light, at the right time.
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THERE IS ONE FUNDAMENTAL FACT ABOUT LIGHTING: WHERE THERE IS NO LIGHT, THERE IS NO BEAUTY.
Billy Baldwin American Interior Designer
REDUCE THE ENERGY DEMANDS Making light work means endeavoring to make lighting far more sustainable, without compromising the qualitative visual requirements of a built environment. Through informed, innovative and imaginative fluorescent and LED fixture engineering, advanced optics design, and integration with industry leading control systems, Litecontrol is dramatically reducing the energy demands of lighting and moving us closer to the realization of net zero. 8
Litecontrol’s leadership in environmental stewardship extends back to the company’s founding in 1936. Since then, the company and its manufacturing plants have co-existed among highly environmentally-sensitive cranberry bogs, conservation land and family-populated neighborhoods. Therefore, Litecontrol will continue to practice the most stringent environmental controls in the manufacture of its products to ensure that the water and land surrounding Litecontrol remain healthy and pristine.
OF LIGHTING, MOVE CLOSER TO NET ZERO. But Litecontrol’s commitment to sustainability goes far beyond energy reduction. As the first manufacturer to achieve Cradle to Cradle Certification for lighting fixtures, Litecontrol marked the fifth consecutive year for earning this disticntion in 2012. This certification applies to all fixtures manufactured at Litecontrol’s Massachusetts-based factories and is testament to Litecontrol’s commitment to manufacturing lighting fixtures with rigorous sustainable methodology. 9
“THERE IS NO MORE WORTHY, MORE GLORIOUS OR MORE POTENT WORK, THAN TO WORK WITH LIGHT.”
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov Bulgarian Philosopher
DISCOVER THE KNOWLEDGE, TOOLS, SUPPORT Ultimately, it’s a diverse collection of dedicated people who are making light work - scientists, engineers, designers, artisans, technicians, fabricators, assemblers and a myriad of others striving each day to elevate lighting to higher standards of beauty, efficiency, effectiveness, affordability and sustainability. These are the people of employee-owned Litecontrol, people with a strong blue-collar work ethic and vested interest in manufacturing and delivering quality, affordable commercial lighting products here 10
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AND PEACE-OF-MIND TO DO YOUR BEST WORK. As a Litecontrol customer, you also experience a higher quality of service. From one-on-one project consultation, to in-person customer service and technical assistance, from product warranties backed by a financially sound company, to a best-of-breed website with open and easy access to technical information, and useful mobile lighting design apps - Litecontrol is making light work by providing our customers with the knowledge, tools, support, and peace-of-mind to do their best work. See how Litecontrol is making light work. 11
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