Commercial category

Roadway and Street Lighting

RP-8 design criteria, BUG limits, and the coastal wavelength rule that catches out-of-state specifiers.

Need roadway and street lighting priced, or just need to know if I can get it? Send me the project or ask me a question. No charge for a takeoff.

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Lumec and Hadco decorative and pedestrian outdoor lighting

Lumec post tops, pendants and architectural roadway luminaires from Boisbriand; Hadco lanterns, bollards, path, step and accent fixtures cast in Littlestown, PA. Spec sheets, lumen tables, the 3000K and dark-sky options, pole EPA tables and the Florida coastal notes. See the Lumec and Hadco page →

Gardco OptiForm LED area lighting

Four area sizes from 7,000 to 147,000 lumens, 21 optics, IP65 and IK08, Zhaga D4i and Interact controls, with the Gen2 spec sheets and the Florida energy-code control options explained. See the OptiForm page →

Roadway and street lighting in South Florida carries a constraint most of the country does not have. Along the coast, what a fixture emits matters as much as where it points, because the binding rule is a wavelength rule written to protect nesting sea turtles, and it applies to anything visible from the beach.

Inland, the usual criteria apply: illuminance and uniformity to the design standard, backlight and glare control to the local ordinance, and a pole that survives a hurricane county. I quote all of it.

The criteria that decide the fixture

The design reference is ANSI/IES RP-8-22, Lighting Roadway and Parking Facilities. Note the 2022 edition folded parking lots and parking garages into the roadway document, so an older separate parking reference on a drawing is out of date.
BUG ratings are a siting constraint, not a fixture label. Backlight, Uplight and Glare are each scored 0 to 5 under IES TM-15, and ordinances built on the Model Lighting Ordinance set maximum allowable ratings by lighting zone. The allowable backlight number tightens as the luminaire gets closer to the property line, so the same fixture can comply in the middle of a site and fail at its edge.
On the coast, spectrum governs. Florida rule 62B-55, F.A.C., the model lighting ordinance for marine turtle protection, defines a compliant long-wavelength source as one emitting light of 560 nanometers or greater and absent wavelengths below 560 nanometers. That is a spectral requirement, not a color temperature. A 2700K warm white LED does not satisfy it. Amber and PC-amber sources do.
The trigger is visibility from the beach, not distance from it. The lighting district covers property that may produce light directly, indirectly or cumulatively visible from any portion of the beach. Light bouncing off a pale wall counts. Being a few blocks back is not by itself a compliance argument.
Full cutoff and fully shielded are defined terms in that rule, and they stack with the spectral requirement. A luminaire can be fully shielded, U0, dark-sky friendly and still fail on spectrum alone.
Nesting season is set locally. For southeastern Florida counties, including Broward, the model indicates 1 March to 31 October. Adopting municipalities publish their own dates and their own district boundaries, so check the ordinance for the specific city.
The pole is a separate decision with its own arithmetic. Wind speed, effective projected area and the ASCE edition a manufacturer chart was written against all matter here.

Where this catches people out. A contractor prices a coastal parking lot or access road with a standard 3000K LED because it is fully shielded and the BUG numbers look right, the job gets built, and then it fails inspection or draws a complaint during nesting season. The fixtures come out. Ask the spectrum question at the quoting stage. It costs nothing then.

lines I represent in this category

16 of the 639 manufacturers in my index make roadway and street fixtures. Each link opens that manufacturer’s page, with the South Florida representative, the territory and how to get it priced.

ArcluceFRM Lighting and Controls Carolina High MastPower and Lighting Systems Current GLI BrandsFRM Lighting and Controls EvolveFRM Lighting and Controls ewoPower and Lighting Systems GMRPower and Lighting Systems HeperFRM Lighting and Controls LeotekPower and Lighting Systems Lightguard SystemsSESCO Lighting LSI Industries Inc.FRM Lighting and Controls NLS LightingPower and Lighting Systems PhotinusFRM Lighting and Controls SeluxPower and Lighting Systems Sentry ElectricPower and Lighting Systems SoluxioFRM Lighting and Controls UbicquiaFRM Lighting and Controls, Power and Lighting Systems

Not seeing the line you were specified? Search all 639 manufacturers or look up the rep for your territory. I quote lines beyond the ones listed here.

What to send me for a price

The site or roadway plan with pole locations and mounting heights.
Whether any part of the site is within a coastal lighting district, or could be visible from the beach.
The governing ordinance or plan note, if one has been cited by the reviewer.
Design illuminance and uniformity targets if the engineer has set them.
Pole details: existing or new, height, and anything else mounted on them.

Send the fixture schedule, the drawings or a plain list of catalog numbers through the quote form. You get a line-by-line price and current lead times, usually within one business day. The takeoff costs you nothing.

Common questions

Do you supply turtle-friendly coastal lighting?

Yes. Several of the lines I represent publish long-wavelength amber sources built for Florida coastal ordinances. Tell me the municipality and whether the site is in the lighting district and I will quote product intended to meet it. Final compliance is determined by the local authority, so I will give you the manufacturer documentation to submit rather than an assurance of my own.

Is a warm white LED acceptable near the beach?

Generally no. The rule is written around wavelength, not color temperature: 560 nanometers or greater, with wavelengths below 560 absent. A 2700K or 3000K white source contains plenty of energy below 560 nanometers. This is the most common misunderstanding I hear on coastal jobs.

Can you quote parking lot lighting as well as roadway?

Yes, and since the 2022 edition of RP-8 they are treated in the same design document. Parking lots, garages, access roads and site lighting are all routine for me.

Do you handle municipal and FDOT-type work?

I quote what a contractor or engineer specifies. Where a public agency maintains its own approved product requirements, tell me which one applies and I will confirm what the manufacturer publishes against it before you order.

SESCO lines I represent for roadway and street lighting

1 of the 163 SESCO lines cover this category. Any of them can be priced from your fixture schedule.

Lightguard Systems

Not seeing a line? The full manufacturer index covers the whole market, or just send me the project.

Ask me about roadway and street lighting

Not ready for a full quote? Ask the question — whether the line holds a spec, what the lead time looks like, or what I would put up as an alternative. I usually come back the same business day.

Or call 786-395-1222, Monday to Friday, nine to five. If you have drawings or a fixture schedule to attach, use the quote form instead.