Commercial Office
Lighting & Controls Solutions
Today’s office environments are dynamic, even restless. Teams are formed to tackle a specific project, disbanded, then reformed into new teams for the next one. The private office, once exclusively someone’s singular domain, might now serve as the gathering point for two, three, or even more people on a revolving basis.
We understand the rhythm of the office. Many of the people who work at Acuity Brands spent years as designers and specifiers. Our field experience, along with countless hours of research, gives us a keen awareness about current trends in the design of commercial office spaces. This is the foundation of our advanced luminaire and controls systems, designed to deliver on the needs of today’s dynamic offices.
Acuity Brands makes it simple with a range of solution sets, tailored for each specific office area and engineered for interoperability. Choose one of these or leverage our broad portfolio to design a unique mix of luminaires and controls. Maybe lean on us for a custom design luminaire that makes a statement. Ultimately, every project is unique and the choice is yours.
The reconfigurable workspace is becoming more and more common, as evidenced by the move toward open plan offices and the prevalence of movable furniture. Flexibility is crucial for these spaces and must necessarily extend to their lighting plans. Acuity Brands offers multiple luminaire and control solutions capable of delivering highly configurable, layered lighting schemes that mesh perfectly with these eclectic workspaces.
The efficiency of LED — especially when coupled with effective and intuitive controls — enables more aesthetic options in the office. Often discarded under current energy codes, pendants and other indirect lighting schemes — the decorative sconce, for example — are once again code-compliant options. Sophisticated lighting design gets an even bigger palette. Lighting design for the commercial office space assumes a broader architectural role. With the increased demand for large open-plan spaces, lighting now performs some of the functions previously assigned to walls. The creation of corridors within open rooms; an increased focus on wayfinding through areas that might otherwise be vague or confusing to the eye; the delineation of “offices” in spaces where walls or partitions no longer exist. To make spaces functional in such situations, the right luminaires and controls are essential.
Dynamic lighting
for dynamic spaces.
LED technology and advanced control systems
have completely changed the equation in the
commercial office market, in both cost/efficiency
and aesthetics.
Acuity Brands luminaires and controls
are not designed in isolation.
Companies favor collaboration to
find better answers to some of their
most pressing questions. It’s an apt
metaphor for lighting systems. We
build coordinated solutions: Product
sets working together seamlessly
to create more efficient, more
stimulating, and more productive
workplaces. And we make it easy for
you to select, install, and configure a
lighting system that simply works.
A bunch of things
working together.
NOT
JUST
ONE
THING.
PRIVATE OFFICE
A single name might be on the door, but today’s private offices just as often serve as collaborative spaces. Because these spaces are being asked to accommodate more varied scenarios, agility in both furniture and lighting is essential.
OPEN OFFICE
Open office environments are trending modular, and reconfigurable. Workspaces are being reshaped and resized, sometimes on a daily basis. As workspaces shift and move, lighting systems have to be flexible enough to adapt.
CONFERENCE ROOM
In the conference room the advantages of LED loom large — dramatic lighting effects no longer correlate to high energy costs. Designers are free to create eclectic, multi-layered lighting schemes that, when desired, can even take a turn toward the theatrical.
CORRIDORS
So much more than point A to point B. The efficiency of LED luminaires, coupled with intelligent control technologies, gives designers more freedom in the corridor. While the emphasis may still lie with wayfinding, corridors can now provide yet another opportunity to create multipurpose spaces.
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Here is a confident statement we can make about how people behave at work: They don’t sit still. The contemporary workplace is anything but static.
For lighting systems, that means a heavy workload. In complex office environments, lighting has to cut through the noise — to help organize spaces that are becoming less and less clearly defined. To bend and sway with the ever-changing needs of today’s office spaces. Acuity Brands is a leader in commercial office lighting and controls — not simply because of the products we build, but because of the way we think. We are conversant with trends in office architecture and design, and we make it our business to understand how people use these workspaces. Because the best lighting systems begin with a thorough understanding about where people work, and more
importantly, how people work.
Lighting that
works the way
you do.
Why Acuity Brands?
System performance, code
compliance, energy consumption:
we understand the touch points.
We’re the leader in lighting solutions, and our passion is bringing innovation, technology, aesthetics and broad product knowledge together for our clients. We provide multiple solutions for your lighting systems, then make sure everything works – to spec and code-compliant – so you can approve it, install it and move on to your next project.
■ Acuity Brands sets the standard for lighting interoperability
and performance.
■ We are the only manufacturer to manufacture, source, and
test the entire system as per our comprehensive checklist – unrivaled in the industry.
■ Acuity Brands makes it easy to design, specify and install
the most innovative LED lighting systems.
■ No other lighting manufacturer offers this type of warranty
with a wholly-manufactured system.
