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Should I use a single manufacturer or multiple manufacturers on a lighting package for a large project?

Posted by Mark Heerema on Feb 24, 2020 9:30:00 AM
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Our team handles thousands of lighting projects every year, and a common question we get is whether a customer should go all-in with a single manufacturer or diversify their lighting across multiple manufacturers.

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Topics: Inside the Industry, Product Comparison, Project Management

Who should purchase lighting for my projects: A general contractor or my company?

Posted by Brandon Melton on Feb 12, 2020 12:13:00 PM
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Here’s a common dilemma: a company hires a general contractor to oversee a large-scale renovation or new construction buildout, or a series of projects. But when it comes to lighting, the company isn’t sure who should purchase the products.

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Topics: Lighting design, Project Management

How a SoCal real estate developer met code, design intent, budget, and deadline through expert lighting design

Posted by Jules Tompkins on Oct 6, 2017 5:35:00 PM
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When you're in the business of opening beautiful places – be they retail stores, restaurants, office buildings, or apartment complexes – life can feel like a game of compromises. 

Typically, you have four main objectives: meet building code, maintain design intent, stay within budget, and open up on time. And oftentimes, achieving all four of those things feels like a pipe dream. Just choose two or three. Something almost always has to give.

It doesn't have to be that way.

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Topics: Title 24, Project Management, Multifamily lighting

Preparing your store for a sale or an important executive visit? Here are 3 retail lighting tips

Posted by Cameron Craig on Sep 15, 2017 9:35:00 AM
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When big shopping holidays like Black Friday and back-to-school shopping hit the retail world, it all too often means stores everywhere are scrambling to get the lighting right.

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Topics: Lighting design, Lighting maintenance, Retail Lighting, Project Management

What is the average lead time for a lighting order?

Posted by Shannon Eaker on Aug 23, 2017 12:25:00 PM
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When making the decision to purchase a certain lighting product, are there any questions that matter more than price, availability, and timeline?

Perhaps that's the case with anything you order – how much does it cost, is it in stock, and when am I going to get it?

But the stakes can be pretty high when you're ordering lighting to get your building or store into shape before an executive visits or ahead of the holidays or when you're knee-deep in a national rollout schedule.

So, if you call Regency right now and purchase lighting, how long will it take to get your order?

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Topics: Restaurant Lighting, Movie theater lighting, Parking Garage Lighting, Project Management, Hotel lighting, Multifamily lighting, Commercial office lighting

5 problems Regency solves for customers

Posted by Jules Tompkins on Aug 22, 2017 11:50:00 AM
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One of our lighting specialists was recently working with a chief engineer at a commercial office who was scrambling to get a suite ready for a new tenant. The process was pretty typical, and the tenant was putting a share of their improvement funds toward lighting upgrades. 

But, as always with construction and remodeling, a problem surfaced: the lighting fixtures that the tenant's architect specified had a 6-8 week lead time, but the tenant was expecting to occupy the space in 4 weeks.

The chief engineer was caught in a pickle, and the manufacturer's rep the architect worked with on the spec had no similar alternatives to offer.

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Topics: Product Comparison, Inside Regency, Project Management

Limited project capital? Try these 3 pro tips to reap big savings from an easy LED retrofit

Posted by Ron Pilner on Jul 25, 2017 5:05:00 PM
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What products should you retrofit to LED first?

Our lighting experts get that question all the time. Fortunately, there’s a pretty simple answer. 

If you have any applications in your building that still have incandescent or halogen lighting, start there first. Why?

The retrofit from incandescent or halogen to LED gives you the biggest energy savings and almost always the fastest return on investment. We all want to make our money back quickly on investments, right? If you’re using linear or compact fluorescent lighting anywhere in your building, your lighting is already fairly efficient, especially when compared with incandescent or halogen lighting. 

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Topics: LED, Savings, Payback, & ROI, Project Management, LED retrofit

Why do lighting projects fall behind schedule? 4 obstacles to avoid

Posted by Chris Radosta on May 5, 2017 1:55:00 PM
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There are some things in life that are inevitable: Death, taxes, and construction projects falling behind schedule.

Actually, one of those things is escapable with good practice and a stroke of luck.

Here at Regency, we are privileged to have some of the most skilled project managers in the industry but there's sometimes no ducking the inevitability of setback.

Before we go too much further, let's get this out of the way: this is not a laundry list of excuses or a pity party. The intent here is to address the most common snags that emerge over the course of a project while explaining how we mitigate them.  

We're lighting people over here, as you know, so we'll be looking specifically at lighting projects and the challenges that come with them, but the principles below could be broadly applied to most any construction project.

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How Regency helps customers to get stores open on time and on budget

Posted by Jules Tompkins on May 2, 2017 6:45:00 AM
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Alice + Olivia launched in 2002 as a women's fashion brand that was exclusively sold in Barneys New York. The company's steady growth over the last 15 years now has it selling its clothing in 50 different countries. And part of that growth has come through the brand's expansion to its own brick and mortar locations. 

Alice + Olivia opened its first boutiques in New York and Los Angeles in the mid-2000s and has since gone on to open 38 worldwide.

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Topics: Retail Lighting, Project Management

How to calculate labor savings from a lighting retrofit: A step-by-step guide

Posted by Andrew Thomas on Mar 6, 2017 5:05:00 AM
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This is the fourth article in our series exploring savings and payback calculations for lighting retrofits. The complexity of lighting payback calculations can make your head spin and make you wonder what applies to you and what doesn't.  

This article focuses on the labor savings that you gain when you switch to long-life lighting products, like LED.

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Topics: Savings, Payback, & ROI, Lighting maintenance, Energy efficiency, Retail Lighting, Project Management, Commercial office lighting

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