Manufacturer’s agent — Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec
Lutron Lighting Controls and Motorized Shading
We design the control system alongside the photometric calculations that drive it. We coordinate the drivers, protocols, and motorized shades that make daylight harvesting work, then commission the system on site and stay with it after handover.
Talk to us about a projectWhy Lutron
Lutron is the platform we specify when the controls strategy matters as much as the lighting. Across Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, it is on nearly every large project we support. It is usually the difference between a building that runs the way it was designed and one that gets its controls overridden in the first month.
Flux Lighting is the manufacturer’s agent for Lutron in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec. When a project requires lighting controls, we specify Lutron.
Call us while the controls scope is still open — before the drivers are bought and the shade pockets are framed. Those are the decisions that are hardest to undo later.
Best fit for
- Corporate offices
- Government workplaces
- Healthcare facilities
- Educational environments
- LEED and WELL projects
- Complex daylight-harvesting designs
What we do with Lutron
Concept and zoning
We turn the plans into logical zones and scenes — drawn from the photometry, not guessed at.
Drivers and protocols
0–10 V, DALI and EcoSystem paired correctly, with Hi-lume where the dimming has to hold at 0.1% without dropping out.
Shades and daylight
Sivoia QS and Palladiom integrated for glare control and daylight harvesting.
Emergency and code
LVS Lutron-compatible relays so emergency fixtures go to full output on power loss, whatever the system was doing — UL924 life-safety compliance.
Commission and support
Programmed and commissioned on site — then re-programmed as the building changes.
See the projectThe design
The control zones come out of the photometry, not the other way around. You cannot sensibly dim for daylight until you know what the daylight is doing in each room.
At Kinaxis the photometry was calculated for 202 separate zones before a single scene was programmed — so the control zones followed the light, not the floor plan. A 160,000-square-foot building lit by repeating one luminaire across five floors is not a design.
See the projectDrivers, protocols and the emergency path
A control system is only as good as what it is wired to. Lutron speaks 0–10 V, DALI and EcoSystem, and the three do not behave the same at the bottom of the dimming curve. We match the driver to the fixture and the protocol to the building — Hi-lume where the dimming has to hold at 0.1% without dropping out.
And we close the gap Lutron does not: LVS Lutron-compatible relays so that on loss of power the emergency fixtures go to full output regardless of what the control system was doing a second earlier. That is a life-safety code requirement, and it is the first thing an electrical engineer will ask about.
See the projectThe shades are not optional
Daylight harvesting is the largest single energy saving available in a commercial lighting design — and it does not work without automated shading.
Dimming to daylight only works if the daylight is controlled first. Where it isn’t, the occupant solves the glare themselves — the blind comes down by hand, and it never goes back up.
At the Federation of Law Societies of Canada — a LEED Platinum floor at Constitution Square — the shading is sequenced to the sun’s path, so the daylight sensors read a condition we control rather than one that changes hour to hour.
Why commissioning matters
Controls that nobody understands get bypassed. A system nobody can operate is overridden in week one, and after that it is just an expensive dimmer. Scenes that do not match how the room is actually used get switched to full output and left there. Daylight sensors read a blind that somebody pulled down in March. The energy model says one thing; the building does another.
None of that is a Lutron problem. It is a specification and commissioning problem — which is the part we do.
What we specify
| System | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Athena | Lutron’s current platform for whole-building control — cloud-connected lighting, shading and software. What we specify on new builds. |
| Energi Savr Node | Zone-level 0–10 V, DALI and EcoSystem control |
| Vive | Wireless retrofit where pulling new wire is not realistic |
| Sivoia QS | Motorized shading and daylight management |
| Palladiom | Shading where the bracket and hembar are part of the architecture |
| Ketra | Tunable white — colour and intensity across the working day |
| Alisse | Wall controls where the interior designer will be looking at them |
| Hi-lume drivers | Dimming that holds at the bottom of the curve without dropping out |
| LVS relays | Lutron-compatible emergency bypass — UL924 life-safety compliance |
We specify what the building needs, not what is quickest to quote. Talk to us when you are choosing between platforms, or writing the controls spec.
Where we’ve used it
Kinaxis Headquarters
Kanata — WELL-certified headquarters with 202 independently calculated control zones across five floors.
Federation of Law Societies of Canada
Ottawa — daylight harvesting integrated with Lutron Sivoia QS shades on a LEED Platinum floor.
Brookfield Renewable
Gatineau — Lutron controls through the office floor and reception.
Start the conversation early
The controls decision is cheapest to get right at the beginning and most expensive to fix at the end. With information on the project type and floor area, whether it is new build or retrofit (and what wiring already exists), the certification target if there is one, and the budget the controls have to live inside, we will tell you what the building actually needs — and we will tell you if that is less than you were expecting.
The earlier we are involved, the more options you have
Planning an office, government, healthcare or education project? Bring us into the conversation before the controls scope is fixed.
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