Conical steel light pole

A spec sheet that says "hot dip galvanized" tells you only half of what you need to know. Two steel light poles can carry the same two-word description and behave completely differently after fifteen...

The luminaires are usually chosen first. On an office landscaping project the design team picks post-top lanterns and floodlights from a catalogue, the contractor prices them, and only later does any...

Replacing a run of street or park lighting looks like a luminaire project. It is not. The pole is the part that stays in the ground for twenty-five years or more, and it carries most of the material,...

A familiar call arrives every November. The solar lights that ran until midnight in August now fade after two or three hours, and the owner assumes the batteries have failed. Usually they have not. T...