Friday, April 25, 2008

Commercial Light Fixtures

It is necessary for the commercial electrician, architect, engineer, or outdoor lighting design to work with a multi-manufacture lighting distributor that maintains a non-preferential inventory of commercial lighting fixtures. A great number of commercial lighting fixture distributors represent only one or two manufacturers, and many times they insist that you buy from only those manufacturers when developing your proposal. This limits not only the proposal itself; and it affects your delivery power to larger clients who may require a many different, specialized, commercial lighting fixtures for aesthetic and efficiently functional light. Furthermore, limited proposal power can also affect your ability to address regulatory requirements on foot-candle levels, reflective glare, and light pollution.

Easy Rack offers you a better plan of action. Our inventory features selections from the world’s best commercial light fixture manufactures. This allows you to assess your clients’ needs from every aspect of requirement and then select specific commercial wall pack lighting fixtures appropriately suited to the luminance needs of buildings, property, operations, and energy efficiency. Making these choices often requires an extensive site analysis and consultation with both the client and the manufacturer’s representative. This can quickly consume more time than it should if you can’t get product information on commercial outdoor lighting fixtures quickly and efficiently.

This is where Easy Rack will significantly save you time as well as money. Consider the benefit of being able to pick up the phone and have all the specifications of a commercial flood light fixture instantly obtainable from your Easy Rack specialist. Things like lamp life, power consumption, mounting options, and lumens per watt efficiency can all be provided over the phone or sent to you in an email that can eliminate the need to spend hours on the phone with the manufacturer itself or hours hunting through websites through cumbersome .pdf files. Serious inquiries are always free over the phone. For a small, reasonable fee, we can also arrange more in-depth, ongoing parking lot lighting consultation be provided for high-end projects in resorts, hotels, country clubs, large city parks, recreational facilities, and entertainment centers.

Easy Rack’s selection of commercial lighting fixtures include a vast selection:

Athletic & Sports Field lighting
Parking Garage Lighting
Commercial Parking Lot Lighting
New & Used Car Dealership Lighting
Mall Parking Lot Lighting
Agriculture Barn & Horse Arena Light Fixtures.
Business Buildings & Office Lighting
Parks & Recreation Lights.
Commercial Warehouse Lighting
Horse Arena Lighting
Rodeo Arena Lights
Car Lot Lighting
Security Lighting
Roadway & Street Lighting
Architectural Lighting

As we can see, Easy Rack’s inventory represents a virtual warehouse of options that you can pass on to your clients in terms of procurement savings, power cost reduction, and optimal functional and outdoor decorative and concrete pole lighting options. Be sure to read our articles on each of these commercial lighting fixtures, and talk to an Easy Rack specialist about drop shipping and customization options.

Easy Rack carries a wide variety of athletic sports field lighting fixtures, commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, and modular 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. Read our testimonials section, product reviews or visit our material handling blog to learn more about Easy Rack.

Our lighting design office is located west of Downtown Houston with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, San Francisco California, 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, Texas.

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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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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

Steel & Metal Lighting Poles

Contractors that bid jobs in diverse environments and climates frequently encounter problems when proposing specific steel lighting poles, metal parking light kits, pole mounting kits and lighting equipment. We are all aware of Effective Projected Area ratings and how they tend to vary widely in different coastal and regional portions of our nation. Most commercial lighting designers who work in multiple states or on a nationwide basis many times find themselves having to rely on too many vendors to make certain the steel lighting poles they propose are in full compliance with wind resistance ratings. This of course very often complicates the proposal process because the contractor has to deal with too many lighting distributors, all of who have different policies of procurement, shipping, and consultative support.

Let Easy Rack eliminate this hassle by being your one source vendor for all commercial lighting fixtures, steel light poles and metal lighting pole accessories, mounts, fixtures, and design planning expertise. It will empower your bid with parking lot lighting equipment and solutions that will work coast to coast for any factory, warehouse, corporate office, country club, resort hotel, recreational area, car lot, rest area, or truck stop—regardless of climate or inclement weather challenges.

Easy Rack Metal Light Pole Shafts provide minimum yield strength of 55,000 PSI.
This empowers the contractor who is facing strict adherence to ASTMA-500 grade C standards a powerful competitive advantage on the bid, because these outdoor light poles feature a uniform wall thickness that results from its one-piece construction. Each light pole is made from welded carbon steel to give it full-length longitudinal resistance.

Regardless of the regional geography of your client, Easy Rack industrial lighting poles will be able to meet with all wind resistance compliance codes and offer your client a sturdy support for the lighting fixtures they need for safety, security, and optimal decorative lighting output.

Easy Rack metal lighting poles are carefully prepared prior to galvanization and powder coating.
Manufacturing by-products are removed from our steel poles by means of an overhead conveyor system that removes foreign matter from the steel with high powered, compressed air at a rate of 4000 shots per second.

This results a “white metal” condition that makes coating bond more permanently with the pole surface the metal and maximizes the PSI yield it is able to withstand.

Our powder coating process ensures extra finish adhesion and protection.
We then pre-heat the steel light pole surface to 3500 degrees to ensure adherence of powder coat finishes. The metal is then hand coated with either standard green, brown, or custom finish colors, and then it is dried and baked to make them resistant to extreme cold, heat, and humidity.

Contractors that work on a nationwide basis can be confident that these commercial steel lighting poles will work in any environment at the same performance level regardless of rain, sun, shine, snow, or storm.

Internal coating protects the steel against atmospheric conditions in industrial environments and salt air climates.
Easy Rack steel lighting poles are able to withstand 1000 hours of salt spray exposure because of this special form of corrosion resistance. In essence, our coating acts as a super inhibitive primer that prevents pollutants and salt from deteriorating the metal lighting pole interior. This process will keep your proposal fully compliant to ASTMB-117 codes.

Having trouble locating the commercial lighting poles and fixtures you are looking for?
Contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. Click here to read customer reviews of our service and products in our testimonials section, or visit our material handling blog for more lighting information.

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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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