Thursday, April 24, 2008

Concrete Light Poles

Architects, outdoor lighting designers, and civil engineers in charge of proposing a parking lot lighting system, consider the many benefits the concrete light poles can equip you to pass on to your clients. Contrary to the perceptions of many, concrete is an ideal material from which to construct a lighting pole. In fact, concrete lighting poles provide the most reliable, versatile, safe, maintenance free, and rugged line items you can propose in a bid.

This is due to a number of key features that make concrete light poles unique in both performance and competitive advantages. One of the most important benefits they bring to time-sensitive projects is their versatility of application and their ease of installation. Concrete light poles can either be affixed to a concrete pole base concrete mounting plate, or they can be buried in the ground a wide range of soil types. This offers a clear advantage to the contractor who is bidding an exterior commercial lighting system for a client with a parking lot adjacent to a park or manicured landscape. In such a situation, the client can propose any number of Easy Rack decorative pole designs, and the same concrete poles can then be positioned throughout the park area as well as the appropriate sections of the parking lot.

This creates a functional, aesthetic harmony between human engineering and that will often tip the scales in your favor in a tight, competitive bidding situation. One point that you will want to emphasize to these clients is that concrete parking lot light poles, contrary to what many assume, actually offer more decorative options than standard metal lighting poles provide. If it comes down to a close race between the three closest bids, show your client all the Easy Rack models in decorative concrete poles, and give them more options than your competitor’s proposal can deliver.

Your clients also can save a great deal of money in the future if they accept your proposal of concrete lighting poles now. Concrete will not corrode the way metal eventually does, and light poles made of concrete are normally made from compacted material that is cast around a high-tensile steel core. This adds compression to the concrete as it cools and makes the pole more flexible and sturdy at the same time. Generally speaking, concrete light poles with outdoor commercial parking fixtures of any design or height will offer greater resistance to high wind speeds and reduce the financial setbacks of any attempts at sabotage or vandalism—simply because they are very difficult to damage even if someone deliberately attempts to deface them.

Concrete built by the Romans still stands in places 1,500 years after the Empire fell, and even though no one has ever rebuilt it, no one has yet torn it down, either.

Because Easy Rack concrete light poles are manufactured with a highly streamlined process that minimizes overhead overhead, concrete poles are often sold at a lower price point than many decorative steel pole equivalents. This gives you a fantastic opportunity to pass savings on to your client in the form of commercial lighting equipment that costs less money to make and takes less time to install. Equally important as well, concrete is environmentally friendly because it produces no toxic by products that can harm wildlife, humans, plants, gardens, or trees.

Finally, the law requires that poles over 50 feet high be made from concrete. Metal, no matter how sturdy, simply will not guarantee sufficient wind resistance to be completely safe at this height. This is why so many sports arenas, stadiums, civic centers, and even municipalities come to Easy Rack for concrete lighting poles that will elevate fixtures to the desired height in full compliance with AASHTO, ACI, ASTM and UBC loading requirements.

Easy Rack concrete outdoor lighting poles are available in all heights, a wide variety of colors, and any decorative style your clients desire. We are here to empower you with as many options as we can to pass on value to your client. Churches, schools, public parks, baseball fields, commercial shopping centers, and even city streets can all be decorated, lit, and made safe from equipment malfunction all with the simple proposal of Easy Rack industrial concrete lighting poles in either ground burial mounts or base-mounts in concrete.

Easy Rack Has Everything You Need!
Easy Rack carries a wide variety of concrete lighting poles, car dealership lighting packages, commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, commercial Christmas lighting and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

If you cannot find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. Our facility is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., El Paso, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, Boise ID, Atlanta GA, Albuquerque NM, Raleigh-Durham NC, Washington DC, Albuquerque NM, Huntsville AL, Fayetteville AR, Norfolk VA , Madison WI., Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, TX

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Industrial Light Poles

Easy Rack offers commercial contractors a comprehensive selection of industrial light poles and lighting pole tenons and adaptors. Easy Rack light poles are engineered to withstand high velocity winds, are made from the best carbon steel, and are thoroughly coated with a thermo set, polyester powder coating that enables them to stand up to both extremely cold climates in the North and the hot, humid climates of Southern States such as Florida and Texas.

Easy Rack’s Protective Coating and Warranty Options Give You Strong Competitive Advantage in Tough Bidding Situations.
Easy Rack commercial lighting poles feature two layers of coating, each applied with a highly specialized, proprietary process that will give you a powerful competitive advantage over your competitors. Light poles are first cleansed of by products with high-pressured air compressors, then the powder coating finish is applied at a temperature of 3500 degrees to ensure bonding to the metal. The interior of the pole is then coated with corrosion resistant materials that protect the interior from salt air and industrial airborne by products. These light poles are ensured with a five-year warranty. If your clients want the absolute maximum protection and maintenance free investment, you can also propose additional galvanized protection and a ten year warranty to ensure you win the bid against cheaper, inferior grade proposals you may find yourself in a bidding war against.

Easy Rack lighting poles are built to enhance the visual element of a site just as much as they are designed to withstand high winds and extreme temperatures.
If your clients who want their light poles to blend with either natural surroundings or industrial facilities, you can offer them parking lot lighting poles coated in traditional bronze and green finishes. For more elaborate projects in parks, municipal buildings, airports, country clubs, resort hotels, outdoor shopping malls, and five star restaurants, you can win the bid on a lighting poles system with Easy Rack’s custom colored light pole finishes. Ask your Easy Rack expert who is already familiar with architectural and/or landscaping design who can help you develop a complimentary color scheme to enhance architectural keynotes and natural features.

Light Pole Construction Features and Design Options Give You More Proposal Power
Easy Rack wants to empower each and every contractor we supply with multiple lighting pole design options. Certain features are common to all of our pole designs in order to ensure compliance to ASTMA-500 grade C codes. Easy Rack lighting pole shafts feature a solid one-piece construction from weldable carbon steel that provides a uniformity of wall thickness regardless of pole height or taper. The industrial lighting pole itself mounts on a hot-rolled carbon steel anchor base engineered to meet minimum yield strength of 36,000 PSI. This type of base offers a strong competitive advantage over many other base designs, because it actually telescopes the pole shaft and holds it in place with a circumferential welded top and bottom. Easy Rack includes a hot rolled carbon steel bar, anchor bolts, hex nuts, and two flat washers with every light pole in order to make installation easy, safe, and quick for the busy contractor.

Our growing inventory also offers commercial outdoor lighting designers a wide array of light poles in Straight Round, Tapered Round, Straight Square, and Tapered Square designs, as well as a wide range of tenons and adapters that you can use to match equipment to the practical demands of a project and the aesthetic preferences of each individual client.

If you are proposing a sports lighting system for a school, civic center, church, or professional league, propose Easy Rack sports lighting poles and lighting fixtures to your client. Each Easy Rack sports light pole features a pivotal base that is drilled for multiple sport court uses. The base of the pole comes with 2 locks that will prevent unauthorized removal of the pivot bolts. An optional top pole section can be added as well if the client needs to make the light pole higher and eliminate the cost of additional, costly accessories. Ask an Easy Rack specialist about available warranties and special sports lighting metal halide and quartz flood fixture that are an ideal fit for these sports lighting poles.

Let Easy Rack Help You Win the Bid!
Easy Rack offers a wide variety of architectural park lighting, commercial shelving, material-handling equipment, parking lot lights, commercial warehouse lighting, used pallet racks, commercial Christmas lighting and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

If you cannot find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. You can also subscribe to our newsletter for specials and discounted items or visit our material handling and equipment blog for helpful information.

Our hub is located in Houston, Texas with regional facilities located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Memphis, Tennessee, Baltimore, Maryland, Irving, Texas, Amarillo, TX, Brownsville, Texas, Grand Prairie, TX, Pasadena, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas., El Paso, Texas., Charlotte, N.C, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Seattle, Washington, Boston, Massachusetts, Denver, Colorado, Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Architectural Area Lighting

Contractors will often find themselves working for offices, churches, non-profit organizations, municipal entities, academic institutions, hotels, restaurants, resorts, and country clubs that need a truly customized architectural area lighting system with either very specific elements or highly cost conscious equipment.

In order to satisfy these clients, is necessary for architectural area lighting specialists to work with a vendor who will give them the widest range of line and low voltage equipment options that will in turn help them ensure that their proposal is fully compliant with dark sky and lighting level regulations, meets all practical safety needs, security concerns, decorative concerns, and delivers to the customer a return on investment generated by reduced power requirements and minimal ongoing maintenance.

Easy Rack experts are always willing to answer your questions in order to help you develop your proposal both from an equipment standpoint and a conceptual design perspective. From car dealership lighting to architectural hotel lighting, we are here to help.

Easy Rack recommends that you carefully weigh and balance the four cornerstone elements of exterior architectural area lighting in a fashion that completely speaks to all regulatory codes, client operations budget, and aesthetic factors crucial to creating a truly superior site lighting system.

Parking Lot Lighting
Parking lot site lights have to meet local foot-candle minimums, minimize glare for passing motorists, and avoid shining their lights into adjacent facilities and homes. Working with a specialist familiar with the various footcandle plots made by each fixture type can go a long way in reducing the time it takes for you to prepare your site lighting proposal. Easy Rack’s team of architectural area lighting experts can recommend various mounts and fixture reflectors that will pinpoint the direction of the light and ensure that your clients remain in compliance with local dark sky regulations.

Garage Site Lighting
Vertical footcandle intensity is often the most neglected element in commercial parking garage site lighting design. Vertical footcandle intensity is crucial to safety, as many obstructions rise high into the air and need more than horizontal lighting for the motorist to see.

Easy Rack will help you configure your parking garage or canopy lights in such a way as to balance vertical foot-candle intensity with horizontal footcandle intensity so as to clearly light all possible obstructions within the facility, and to create a well-lit interior without blinding glare. Easy Rack specialists will help you choose from a wide range of MH, HPS, and even canopy lighting fixtures that can create this delicate balance for a critical area in your architectural lighting proposal.

Building Architecture and Area Lighting
Outdoor building lights must accent the building without overpowering it. Different sites can benefit from different fixture types that range from wall mounted architectural lights, roof lights, canopy lights, and wallpacks in a wide range of size, voltage, wattage, and color options. Fixture positioning here is the key to minimizing light pollution, and Easy Rack commercial lighting specialists can help you calculate the optimal angles of incidence for optimum results.

Security Site Lighting
We will help you complete your architectural area lighting proposal with security lights ranging from floodlights, low pressure sodium vapor lights, motion detectors, HID or high intensity discharge lighting fixtures, security flood light fixtures, outdoor wall mount light fixtures, post mount light poles & fixtures, wall pack security light fixtures and outdoor canopy light fixtures. Ask your Easy Rack representative about the many lighting control options we provide that can help you customize each of these security lights to your clients’ specific needs.

Easy Rack offers a wide variety of architectural park lighting, commercial shelving, material-handling equipment, commercial warehouse lighting, used pallet racks, commercial Christmas lighting and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

If you cannot find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. You can also subscribe to our newsletter for specials and discounted items or visit our material handling and equipment blog for helpful information.

Our offices are located in Houston, Texas with regional facilities located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., El Paso, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, Boise ID, Atlanta GA, Albuquerque NM, Raleigh-Durham NC, Washington DC, Albuquerque NM, Huntsville AL, Fayetteville AR, Norfolk VA, Madison WI., Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, TX.

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