“Lux on the floor went up 35%. The energy bill dropped 60%. And the forklift drivers stopped complaining about glare. That’s about as good as a brief outcome gets.”
A national distribution warehouse swapped 600+ ageing metal halide high-bays for LED in a single phased rollout. The brief looked simple, until you read it twice. They wanted more lux on the picking aisles, fewer fixtures than what was up there (capex was tight), and zero glare for the forklift drivers on the cross-aisles. The first two usually fight each other.
Our designer modelled the warehouse in Relux off the existing CAD, ran three fixture options with different optics, and went with the beam pattern that put the light on the work, without pushing it into a forklift driver's line of sight at eye level. The procurement team got payback modelling alongside the spec, so finance signed off the same week. And we commissioned over weekends, so the warehouse never stopped picking.
Whether it's an office floor, a factory line or an outdoor carpark, the approach is essentially the same: design first, supply second, install with our PM running point. Brief us on your site → (Figures above are composite from typical Lamphouse warehouse retrofits, happy to walk through a specific named project under NDA.)
Defy · KwaZulu-Natal · lighting by Lamphouse
