Since the advent of LED technology, luminaires have become increasingly more difficult to specify without an enormous amount of information made immediately available to the specifier. Add to that rapidly diminishing design schedules and long equipment lead times and we have an increasingly uncomfortable venn diagram of stress for everyone in the business of designing, engineering or constructing buildings, including the luminaire manufacturers and their reps.

 

Without a concise + complete specification, a specifier will go to another manufacturer who provides a better cut sheet for a similar product. Or worse- they'll spec your product without complete information, creating a mess for a team of people to clean up after the luminaire shows up on site and it's not what they expected it to be. 

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Agency and factory reps, customer service folks and factory engineers shouldn’t be wasting their valuable time assisting us with figuring out what we need, nor should they be spending their time triaging when something unexpected arrives (not to mention the electrician who has to improvise on site when a product arrives not quite as represented by the issued cut sheet.) This creates adversarial relationships within the team of design/build professionals and often results in a loss of income for some if not all of the team members, including the manufacturer and their reps.

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Providing better cuts opens your market to the nascent specifiers as well as industry veterans like us, who have grown increasingly frustrated with confusing specs; incomplete drawing and dimensions; options for only some features but not others; and multiple asterisks and subscript note references. LEDs are difficult enough to fully understand. Why make the specification of them even more difficult than it needs to be?

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If industry veterans like us can't specify your product with ease, it's not us. It's the cut. 

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