Budget Pricing
Early, reliable budget numbers to keep your design grounded in reality.
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For Architects, Engineers & Designers
Specify with confidence, from the first sketch.
Relume Distributing supports architects, engineers, and designers with early budget pricing, product selection assistance, and full photometric layout and design support, so your lighting design performs on paper and holds up in the field. Lean on our engineering bench to get the spec right.
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The reality of specifying lighting
The spec you draw is not always the building that gets built.
Your spec gets value-engineered away
Downstream, a substitution you never saw turns your design into whatever protects someone else’s margin, and it does not perform the way you drew it.
One-brand advice, fewer options
Product recommendations often come from sources partial to specific brands, limiting your ability to specify better-performing or better-value solutions.
Photometrics and cut sheets eat your time
Chasing layouts, IES files, and submittal data across manufacturers is time you would rather spend designing.
What we do for you
Built for the spec.
Product Selection Assistance
Help choosing the right fixtures and controls to hit performance and aesthetic goals.
Relume DistributingPhotometric Layout & Design Support
Full photometric layouts and design support so the lighting performs on paper and in the field.
Relume DistributingHow it works
From design intent to a spec that holds.
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Share the design intent
Drawings, a mood, or performance targets. We start from what you are trying to achieve.
2
Photometrics and product selection
We build the photometric layout and select fixtures and controls that hit the light levels, the aesthetic, and the code.
3
A spec built to hold
A documented spec with the data behind it, so it survives bidding instead of getting swapped quietly.
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Supported through procurement
Because we are the supplier, our budget pricing holds through bid day, so the spec sticks and the work does not get repeated.
What happens to a spec
Your design, built the way you drew it.
The typical path
Your design
Rep substitutes
VE for margin
Built off-spec
Each hand it passes through has a reason to swap your selection for something cheaper or whatever they carry. The building that gets built is not the one you designed.
With Relume Distributing
Working directly with Relume
Your design
Built as designed
We carry 150+ brands, so we have no line to push, and because we also supply the job, we hold your spec through procurement or flag an approved equal before it changes.
Design support
Tell us about the project.
Tell us where you need backup. Our engineering bench can take it from a sketch to a documented spec.
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