Friday, April 25, 2008

Street Lighting Poles

Engineers and contractors who install streetlights for municipalities, highway departments, and private thoroughfares need a nationwide vendor they can depend on who can equip them with and concrete street light poles. Because street lights and poles are so heavily regulated, material grade, range of customization, functional delivery, wind load capacity, impact resistance, and aesthetics represent a collective of critical factors that work together to develop a proposal that will award your organization with the bid.

Wind load compliance laws very often the top most consideration for the engineer who is responsible for proposing street lighting poles based on the number of lighting fixtures or flood lights. Before you add any specific line items to your proposal, we recommend you contact Easy Rack for a free phone-based consultation to cross reference wind load regulations against street lighting pole options you may have already discussed with your client. This saves your company a step in having to index this data in house and in turn saves you time and money in fine-tuning the delivery power of your proposal.

Easy Rack adds value beyond compliance by giving you multiple design and material build options for your street poles lights.
We offer contractors the freedom of choice between an enormous variety of concrete and steel street light poles. Both concrete and steel offer respective, advantages and benefits that engineers, architects, and outdoor lighting designers can transfer directly to the client’s table.

Easy Rack Street Lighting Poles are available in a wide range of heights and radius tapers.
Our nationwide warehousing network can equip your firm with street lights that range from decorative poles closely resembling the design and aesthetic of park lighting poles to 50 foot+ industrial concrete street light poles for roadway and highway lighting. We inventory these lighting poles simply because we understand that contractors bid these products on a city-wide level and require a diversity of options in order to accommodate neighborhoods, park areas, retail centers, and business districts.

Concrete and Steel Street Lighting Poles give you choice of material build.
Many towns have begun to replace steel street lighting poles with concrete outdoor commercial lighting poles because of their superior impact and wind load capacity, and also because they can better withstand the elements. We make certain to provide these replacements at affordable price points to the contractor so any retrofitting project can be completely as quickly and painlessly as possible for the consultant and the client alike.

Nevertheless, our inventory favors neither steel nor concrete street light poles from a preferential standpoint, because our commercial lighting specialists are well aware that many residential neighborhoods will specifically request either one or the other, and that they may also want certain diameters, tapers, finish colors to compliment the exterior architecture of homes and landscapes.

Please reference our wide selection of choices in both concrete and steel street light poles that will give your client the freedom of choice and a price point that will enable you to win the bid. Have you considered out pre-packaged outdoor lighting kits?

Easy Rack Street Light Poles Come in A Variety of Geometric Design Models
We offer highly functional, decorative street lighting poles in round, hexagon, octagon, and square geometric designs. Classifications range from light-duty poles to heavy-duty street lighting poles, with taper ratios and installation options ranging from the standard to the highly customized. You can choose from either standard or custom finish options as well in order to make your proposal more aesthetic. This gives you added negotiating power if you are bidding on a high-end project with a resort, country club, hotel, or recreational facility that is looking to light private street with poles that feature maximized yield strength and decorative appeal.

Street Light Poles by Easy Rack are engineered to support the fixtures you need without having to force compatibility with costly customization.
Before you invest in generic street light poles that may have to be fitted with additional mounting accessories that support the fixtures your client requires you to provide, talk to an Easy Rack specialist first and let he or she help you find a decorative outdoor lighting pole to match the fixture and the facility you are bidding to service.

Easy Rack Is a One Source Distributor for Engineers, Contractors, and Architects
Easy Rack carries a wide variety of commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

If you can not find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you.Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses 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, and Kentucky.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Decorative Park Lighting

There are three important things to consider when lighting a park. Safety of course is the first consideration, because no one wants to go to a park at night if someone who is up to no good is lurking about in dark places. Effective commercial park lighting keeps pedestrian areas from threatening shadows and provides an ambient, decorative visibility around rest areas that helps set the mood for a quiet evening away from the traffic and noise of nightlife.

Because it plays such a pivotal role in setting the emotional tone for such an evening, park lighting have to be very decorative in order to provide an aesthetic compliment to the natural surroundings. Easy Rack inventories an enormous diversity of fixtures and lamp types when it comes to making your park, boardwalk, or hotel garden more attractive and relaxed. People often romanticize the past as a better, less stressful time, and so any type of fixture with an antique, early American style, or classic European look, will often help contribute to the feeling of time standing still. Also, most park lights feature more symmetrical geometric designs and more intricate decorations, so they offer a much better fit to a natural, outdoor setting than typical flood lights, parking lot lights, security lights and other industrial lights generally do.

Large companies with high-end landscape lighting systems often decorate sidewalks and outdoor seating areas with park lights. Even though these areas may not be technically considered “parks” in the same way as New York’s Central Park or LA’s Griffith Park, they nevertheless call for the same blend of safety lighting and decorative theme as larger, official park areas require.

It is important to keep in mind, too, that park lights have to be diversified in both height and fixture model to create a true sense of design throughout the grounds. Lights on decorative poles provide general lighting for open areas and walkways. Smaller lights that lie lower to the ground provide decorative accent lighting to emphasize landscaped features, hedges, flower gardens, and trees. Easy Rack lighting bollards are an excellent source of this type of accent lighting. Approximately the size of an industrial bollard, a park lighting bollard gives off just enough light to illuminate any number of natural landforms and vegetation types, and it provides an excellent source of path lighting as well. Park lighting bollards can be used to line sidewalks, rotundas, fountain areas, and the bases of stairways so people can clearly see where they are walking but never consciously notice the source of the light because it radiates at a subdued level of intensity.

Pole mounted fixtures can be obtained from your Easy Rack specialist in any number of ornate styles that are fitted with special reflectors and glare shields to direct lighting into the park but keep it out of the surrounding neighborhood. Dark sky laws have now been passed in most cities that strictly control light pollution, so it is important to purchase your park lighting fixtures from a company like Easy Rack who knows these laws and who fulfill your sense of style and decoration without violating any municipal regulatory codes in the process.

Before making a final selection today, speak at length with an Easy Rack lighting specialist who can help you carefully balance the three demands of security, decor, and dark sky regulatory compliance. Working with an expert will save you from a costly mistake, and it will also offer you the added benefit of a referral to a qualified lighting designer who has experience in everything from lighting parks to lighting parking garages can help you specify your equipment.

As you continue to read through our selection of commercial lighting and material handling equipment products, keep in mind we stand ready to answer any questions you may have about our offerings. Contact us at 888-776-3720 whenever such questions arise and let us help you make the best investment within your budget to ensure home field advantage and continued stability in shifting markets where prosperity can still be guaranteed through wise decisions.

Easy Rack carries a wide variety of outdoor decorative pole lighting fixtures, commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, as well as modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

Our lighting design center is located in Houston, Texas with warehouse lighting fixtures available 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, Raleigh-Durham NC, Washington DC, Albuquerque NM, Huntsville AL, Fayetteville AR, Norfolk VA, Madison WI, Atlantic City, NJ, Phoenix, AZ, and Las Vegas, NV.

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