Commercial Façade and Building Accent Lighting in Franklin Lakes, NJ

What is commercial façade and building accent lighting in Franklin Lakes, NJ?

Commercial Façade and Building Accent Lighting is part of the commercial & architectural lighting we install on Franklin Lakes properties. Commercial façade lighting treats a building elevation as the property's identity after dark, lighting its materials and massing so it reads from the road at the distances traffic actually passes.

Why does it matter on a Franklin Lakes property?

Franklin Lakes sits in Bergen County, and this is a town of a low-density mix of a set-back corporate headquarters campus on landscaped grounds and small neighborhood retail, with little continuous street-front commercial.

The same property usually brings a second constraint with it: long driveway approaches through tree cover, where the drive itself is the first thing that has to read from the road.

These are Bergen County estate roads where houses sit deep on wooded lots, so passing traffic reads a wash against a dark tree line rather than a row of doors.

On a Franklin Lakes property this reads as a low-density mix of a set-back corporate headquarters campus on landscaped grounds and small neighborhood retail, with little continuous street-front commercial against long driveway approaches through tree cover, where the drive itself is the first thing that has to read from the road.

How do we install commercial façade and building accent lighting in Franklin Lakes?

Fixtures are mounted where they can be serviced from the ground or a standard lift, since anything else becomes deferred maintenance.

Vertical elements such as pilasters and mullions carry their own narrow-beam sources, since a wide wash reads them as flat against the wall behind them.

Facade zones are wired to the building scheduling system where one exists, so a security shutdown does not leave the elevation lit on an empty property.

Output is checked against local ordinance limits and spill onto neighboring property, which is a permitting issue rather than a design preference.

Materials are lit according to how they reflect, as glass, painted panel and masonry on one elevation each need a different approach.

What does a bad install look like?

Ground-mounted fixtures set inside a bed of ornamental grasses. By late summer the grasses shroud the fixtures, and the elevation reads as under-lit until a crew cuts them back.