MAKING LIGHT WORK™

MAKING
LIGHT
WORK ™
“LIGHT IS NOT
SO MUCH SOMETHING
THAT REVEALS,
AS IT IS ITSELF
THE REVELATION.”
James Turrell
American Artist
YOUR PROFESSION: DESIGN. YOUR MEDIUM: LIGHT. YOUR CRAFT: PART PHYSICS.
Your tools: Free and abundant sunlight. Manmade instruments of illumination. Sources of
useful light inspired by those who practice lighting design and innovated by a company
who, like you, appreciates light’s full potential. The potential to inform, to influence, to inspire,
to improve the human condition.
For more than 75 years, Litecontrol has been the commercial lighting professional’s leading
partner in design. From its early innovations in wall/slot lighting, to today’s advanced
LED fixtures, Litecontrol remains committed to delivering the widest palette of tools and
comprehensive services to maximize the power of lighting design and to minimize electric
lighting’s environmental impact.
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PART PSYCHOLOGY. ALWAYS ARTFUL.
Explore Litecontrol now and discover a company making
light work – for lighting designers, architects, building owners
and operators – but most importantly, for those who are
learning, or working, or healing within the spaces where
you find Litecontrol.
THIS IS LITECONTROL - MAKING LIGHT WORK.
Litecontrol is committed to lighting
design education and training.
The Litecontrol Robert W. Danforth
Lighting Center is a 15,000 square
foot education, demonstration
and mock-up facility located in
Massachusetts where professionals
explore the impact of quality lighting
using full-scale classrooms, offices,
labs, retail spaces and hospital rooms.
Additionally, Litecontrol boasts one
of the industry’s most comprehensive
curriculum of AIA CES and NCQLP
continuing education programs.
Sample a Litecontrol
continuing education
program.
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“THE PURPOSE OF LIGHT
IS TO CREATE MORE LIGHT,
TO OPEN PEOPLE’S EYES,
TO REVEAL THE
MARVELS AROUND.”
Paulo Coelho
Brazilian Lyricist/Novelist
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Lighting designers can employ light to create
predictable human emotional and behavioral
outcomes. A designer’s choice of lighting tools
and techniques for a given space determines how
people feel about, move through and function
within a space. This is why the building design
community will continue to rely on the professional
lighting designer, and why professional lighting
designers will continue to rely on Litecontrol as a
preferred partner in their craft.
For LED fixtures to look their best, it is essential that each individual LED used in a
fixture be highly similar in chromaticity. Demanding better color uniformity from
a fixture than those derived from ANSI standards, Litecontrol matches LED color
temperature within each fixture by its own standard – more than four times as
stringent as ANSI.
Watch a video on our new LED fixture platform.
Today, Litecontrol offers designers the industry’s
most complete range of interior commercial
lighting fixtures and controls for fluorescent and
LED platforms. This holistic toolset includes pendant,
recessed and ceiling-mounted fixtures for lighting
horizontal work surfaces , in addition to wall/slot,
cove and wall-mounted fixtures for lighting the
spatial envelope. Designers appreciate Litecontrol’s
attention to fixture styling and detailing, wide
ranging aesthetics, willingness to provide
customized solutions and commitment to
offering lighting solutions for all budget levels.
IN THE HANDS OF A PROFESSIONAL, LIGHT IS POWER.
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“THE TANTALIZING THING
IS NOT ALWAYS
THE SOURCE OF LIGHT,
BUT THE EFFECT OF LIGHT.”
Edward Degas
French Artist
TO INFORM TO INFLUENCE TO INSPIRE TO IMPROVE THE HUMAN
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Litecontrol conforms useful new technology to the art
and science of lighting design - never the other way
around. When Litecontrol introduces a new lighting
technology, you can be sure it has been fully vetted for
satisfying all requirements of the design community aesthetic, photometric, and economic. Such is the
case with LED technology.
Litecontrol’s Mainstream™ fixture housing also serves as
an efficient heat-sink for LEDs, maximizing their lifespan.
Mainstream’s accolades include a prestigious Green Good
Design Award and recognition in the Department of
Energy’s Next Generation Luminaires competition.
Learn more about innovative Mainstream.
To realize the promise of LED in commercial lighting
design - its vastly superior energy-efficiency and
lifecycle - requires companies like Litecontrol to
engineer entirely new fixture platforms in close
coordination with leading LED manufacturers. For
Litecontrol, this approach has resulted in new LED
fixtures that produce the highest degrees of color
consistency and rendering, maximum lifespans, and
minimal energy consumption. Most importantly,
these fixtures also provide the means for designers
to provide exactly the right quality, quantity and
location of light, at the right time.
CONDITION
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THERE IS ONE
FUNDAMENTAL FACT
ABOUT LIGHTING:
WHERE THERE IS NO LIGHT,
THERE IS NO BEAUTY.
Billy Baldwin
American Interior Designer
REDUCE THE ENERGY DEMANDS
Making light work means endeavoring to make
lighting far more sustainable, without compromising
the qualitative visual requirements of a built
environment. Through informed, innovative and
imaginative fluorescent and LED fixture engineering,
advanced optics design, and integration with industry
leading control systems, Litecontrol is dramatically
reducing the energy demands of lighting and moving
us closer to the realization of net zero.
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Litecontrol’s leadership in environmental stewardship
extends back to the company’s founding in 1936. Since then,
the company and its manufacturing plants have co-existed
among highly environmentally-sensitive cranberry bogs,
conservation land and family-populated neighborhoods.
Therefore, Litecontrol will continue to practice the most
stringent environmental controls in the manufacture of its
products to ensure that the water and land surrounding
Litecontrol remain healthy and pristine.
OF LIGHTING, MOVE CLOSER TO NET ZERO.
But Litecontrol’s commitment to sustainability goes
far beyond energy reduction. As the first manufacturer
to achieve Cradle to Cradle Certification for lighting
fixtures, Litecontrol marked the fifth consecutive year
for earning this disticntion in 2012. This certification
applies to all fixtures manufactured at Litecontrol’s
Massachusetts-based factories and is testament to
Litecontrol’s commitment to manufacturing lighting
fixtures with rigorous sustainable methodology.
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“THERE IS
NO MORE WORTHY,
MORE GLORIOUS OR
MORE POTENT WORK,
THAN TO
WORK WITH LIGHT.”
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
Bulgarian Philosopher
DISCOVER THE KNOWLEDGE, TOOLS, SUPPORT
Ultimately, it’s a diverse collection of dedicated people who
are making light work - scientists, engineers, designers,
artisans, technicians, fabricators, assemblers and a myriad
of others striving each day to elevate lighting to higher
standards of beauty, efficiency, effectiveness, affordability
and sustainability. These are the people of employee-owned
Litecontrol, people with a strong blue-collar work ethic
and vested interest in manufacturing and delivering
quality, affordable commercial lighting products here
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at home in the U.S.
AND PEACE-OF-MIND TO DO YOUR BEST WORK.
As a Litecontrol customer, you also experience a higher quality
of service. From one-on-one project consultation, to in-person
customer service and technical assistance, from product warranties
backed by a financially sound company, to a best-of-breed website
with open and easy access to technical information, and useful
mobile lighting design apps - Litecontrol is making light work
by providing our customers with the knowledge, tools,
support, and peace-of-mind to do their best work.
See how Litecontrol is making light work.
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