Flux Lighting is a manufacturer’s agent — the lighting rep that architects, interior designers, electrical engineers and contractors across Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec bring in when a project needs light. We have been doing it since 2002, from a showroom in Ottawa, with twenty-two people and more than ninety manufacturer lines behind us.
Fixture selection and lighting design is what architects and interior designers most often bring us in for. Lighting is what we work on all day, so that part of the job can come to us and those hours go back into the rest of the building. You don’t have to do the lighting design yourself. What comes back is a lighting design that looks the way the project should look and lands where the budget actually is.
The rest is the work of a lighting consultant: reading the drawings, running the photometrics, laying out the fixtures, designing the controls, and staying on the file through submittals, approvals and site visits until the last fixture is aimed and the control system is commissioned. The order itself goes through a distributor to the electrical contractor. Our part is everything around it.
Product Selection & Consultation
Any number of fixtures will technically work. Knowing which one suits the room, the budget and the person signing off is the part that takes knowing the market — and it is the part most architects and interior designers hand to us. Tell us what the space has to do and what it has to cost, and the searching is ours: the comparing, the layout, and a fixture package you can put in front of a client.
An agency built around one large manufacturer specifies from that manufacturer, and it shows: the same fixtures turn up on project after project. Nothing obliges us to favour one line over another, so every fixture on your drawing is there because it suited the room.
Architectural and industrial
Everything from recessed and linear to industrial fixtures.
Decorative
Statement pieces for the spaces where the fixture is meant to be seen.
Controls and shades
Lighting controls and shades, from Lutron.
Samples, finishes and mock-ups
Samples and finish swatches for many of the products we represent. And a mock-up in the showroom when a drawing won’t settle it.
Specification Support
Most of what we do happens before there is a purchase order. We read the drawings, put the fixture schedule together, and write the specification text that goes with it.
A named basis of design, the performance criteria that matter, and the terminology that makes the intent unambiguous. A spec with the criteria stated is a spec that holds up when it is challenged. You get the room you drew, not the one that was easiest to substitute.
When the budget moves — and it often does — we put up alternates and approved-equal packages, with the photometric comparison your engineer needs in order to approve them.
Photometric Analysis & Lighting Calculations
We bring the science of light to your project. Photometrics are run in house — in AGi32, in Dialux, or in Revit itself — using the IES files we hold from the manufacturers we represent.
We work from your files. AutoCAD is what we receive most often, and Revit and SketchUp both work: we convert what you send for AGi32 or Dialux, or run the calculation inside your Revit model with ElumTools, the plug-in from Lighting Analysts.
You get back a fixture schedule, a calculation summary and a point-by-point plan showing where each fixture actually sits — issued under our own title block, ready to go into the set. Layouts and calculations are worked to the applicable energy code, Ontario’s SB-10 or the NECB, so the lighting package supports the building’s compliance rather than complicating it. Where a utility incentive is on the table, we can run the rebate study.
Controls Integration
Control problems are decided on paper. Long before anyone touches a keypad.
We turn the plans into zones and scenes, match drivers and protocols to the fixtures, and write the sequence the building will actually run on. Daylight harvesting, occupancy and vacancy sensing, partition sensing and motorized shades all come off the same drawing. Once it is installed, we commission it alongside the electrical contractor.
Our work does not end with the specification. We stay with the project until the space is lit.
Site Visits & On-Site Support
We come to the pre-wire meeting before the walls close, and we keep coming back. During site visits, we check installation progress, troubleshoot issues, and work with your contractors to make sure everything comes together perfectly.
If a fixture arrives wrong or a driver will not behave, the person who specified it is the person standing there. We are there at the end of it too, for aiming and focusing.
See it built
From drawing to building. Offices, campuses, healthcare, hospitality and public spaces across Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec. Every one of them ours, and photographed after completion.
Project Management
A lighting package slips in small ways. A finish substituted, a driver back-ordered, a delivery landing the week the ceiling closes. From planning and product delivery to coordinating installation timelines, we keep everything on track so your project finishes on time and on spec.
Submittals, shop drawings and approvals are ours to chase. We flag long-lead items early and coordinate delivery so the fixtures arrive when the electrician is ready for them rather than three months beforehand. If something fails inside its warranty, we administer the claim with the manufacturer — you deal with us, not with a form on someone else’s website.
Education & Training
Lighting changes faster than most specifiers have time to track. Through lunch-and-learns and training sessions, we share the latest manufacturer products, innovations, and sustainable solutions to enhance your projects.
Sessions run at your office or in our showroom, and can be CEU-accredited where the material qualifies.
Send the drawings and we will mark them up
Layouts, fixture types, controls, the parts you are unsure about. You will get a specification you can issue and a schedule your estimator can price.
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