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Commercial · Custom projects

Large, unusual,
or both.

Full-building facades, bridges and structures, monument signage, public art, seasonal civic installations and one-off builds — designed with an engineer where it needs one, tendered properly, and commissioned with documentation.

  • Stamped drawings
  • Tender-ready specs
  • Project-managed install
  • Documented commissioning

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The category

Projects that do not fit a package

Some commercial lighting is a known quantity with a known fixture list. This page is for everything else.

That means the ten-storey facade where the mounting detail has to be engineered because nothing off the shelf spans it. The pedestrian bridge that needs lighting on the deck, the rail and the underside, with three different ingress ratings. The monument sign at a business-park entrance that has to be legible from a 60 km/h approach. The seasonal civic install that goes up in November, has to look intentional, and has to come down cleanly in January.

We handle them the way they need handling — a design phase before a price, engineering brought in where the scope requires a stamp, a specification written so it can actually be tendered, and a commissioning package the owner can hand to whoever maintains the asset in ten years.

  • Design-build or specified supplierWe will price and build to a consultant's spec, or design it ourselves.
  • Engineering where requiredStructural and electrical engineering engaged and stamped drawings provided.
  • Full documentationPhotometric reports, shop drawings, as-builts and O&M manuals.
  • Bondable$5M liability as standard, higher limits and bonding on qualifying projects.
Project types

What lands in this category

Full-building facades

Multi-storey architectural lighting with engineered mounting, zoned control and a documented photometric design.

Structures & bridges

Pedestrian bridges, canopies, towers and gateways — usually three ingress environments in one scope.

Monument & wayfinding signage

Entrance monuments, pylon signs and campus wayfinding lit for legibility at approach speed.

Public art & installations

Working with artists and municipalities on lighting for permanent and temporary public works.

Seasonal civic installs

BIA and municipal holiday installations: designed, installed, maintained through the season and removed cleanly.

Rescue & retrofit

Taking over a failed or half-finished install, diagnosing why, and either fixing or replacing it — with a written assessment first.

How it works

Design phase first, price second

Discovery

Site, structure, power availability, approvals path and what success actually looks like. Sometimes a paid design phase; often not.

Design & engineering

Photometric modelling, mounting details, and structural or electrical engineering with a stamp where the scope requires one.

Tender or build

A written spec you can tender, or a fixed-price build from us — then a project-managed install, commissioning and owner handover package.

Questions

Custom commercial work, answered

Do you work with architects and lighting designers?

Regularly. We will price and build to a consultant's specification, and we will flag constructability problems during tender rather than as a change order after award. If you want us involved earlier, we do design-assist too.

Can you tender a project you designed?

Yes. If a public owner needs an open tender, we can write the specification as a design consultant and step out of bidding, or bid the build if procurement rules allow it. Tell us the constraint upfront and we will structure it appropriately.

What is the smallest custom commercial project you take?

There is no floor. For smaller scopes the answer is usually one of our packaged services rather than a full design phase, and we will tell you honestly which one you actually need.

How far ahead do seasonal civic installations need to be booked?

By July for a November install. The design and approvals path for a public installation is longer than the build, and hardware lead times run six to ten weeks in the fall.

Bring us the difficult one.

Site walk, an honest feasibility answer, and a design path with a number attached. Consultations are free.