Practical advice on commercial lighting from LED retrofits to lighting design.

Here at Regency we're well aware that lighting can be complicated, that's why here on the Lighting Insights blog we aim to help answer your questions and make lighting easy for you. Not only do we enjoy reading and writing about lighting, but we enjoy finding and watching helpful videos on lighting. 

Imagine yourself ordering a medium rare, large, ribeye steak at a restaurant only to cut into it for the middle to appear orange and unappetizing. Or picture yourself at a fine dining restaurant that's so poorly lit your entire party has to take out their cell phones just to view the menu. 

As we start a new year full of new retrofit, design, and maintenance projects, we've updated our Lighting Terms Glossary to include some important terms that you'll want to be aware of this year. 

It's been a busy year in lighting, and we've tried our best to cover the most important topics for our customers. In an industry of complexities, we've tried to stick to our mission of making lighting easy. Here's a list of the top ten blog articles that our readers deemed the most popular in 2016. 

This weekend, many of us will be climbing ladders, scaling our roofs, and wrapping the inside and outside of our house with holiday lighting. Whether you prefer a few strands hung on the shrubs in the front of your house or a display straight out of Christmas Vacation, in the back of your head, there's always that question –– "How much is this going to cost me?"

In the retail industry, high quality lighting is one area that can go overlooked or deemed superfluous. Glenn Trunley of TUMI knows the importance of high quality lighting and the benefit that it can bring to accomplishing store design goals.

Regency recently partnered with TUMI to bring specification consistency, standout design, and tailored budgetary solutions for an international rollout. 

A few weeks ago, we touched on the topic of service and how Regency's values improve and drive our service. One of Regency's RISE values that doesn’t get as much time in the limelight is expertise. It may seem self-serving to talk about expertise, but it directly impacts our customers and it's an important piece of our culture.

We believe in investing in our people, technology, and training to create experts who are capable of meeting and exceeding your expectations. 

All feather-fluffing aside, isn't that what we all want?

If you were to walk through the office hallways or warehouses of Regency, you may not necessarily hear the term "RISE" used in daily conversation, but you will hopefully see it embedded in our culture.

We've coined our values "R.I.S.E," which stands for relationship, integrity, service, and expertise. Our values define how we do business and guide us in providing exceptional service.

If we've said it before, we'll say it a thousand times. The lighting industry is confusing. Between the countless manufacturers, types of lamps, product names, and descriptions –– navigating through it all is no small task. That's why we're here.

Acronyms can be overused or flippantly thrown about in conversations –– especially in the commercial lighting industry. But that can leave people disoriented and blank. Typically, if I'm in that situation, I feel tempted to just nod along, pretending I know what the other person is talking about.

To be good at project management, you have to be good at identifying problems and you have to be quick to create a solution.

Jeff Petty, a project coordinator in our Energy Services department, has a way of listening to our clients, understanding their problems, and helping to solve them, in a proactive and kind way.