A showroom is the hardest room to light, because your customer is judging paint under it.

Energy Efficiency Alberta was wound up in 2020. The Emissions Reduction Alberta Energy Savings for Business program is closed and fully allocated. SEMI is industrial only. If a competitor payback calculation has a rebate line in it, that payback is made up. My calculator has no rebate field, and that is deliberate.

Commercial lighting normally lands in capital cost allowance Class 8 at 20 percent declining balance, and Class 8 qualifies for the accelerated first year allowance through 2027. Talk to your accountant about that, not to me. I am an electrician.

Alberta STANDATA 24-ECB-030 says a luminaire with double ended lamps on a ballast rated over 150 volts to ground, disconnected and reconnected, counts as a new luminaire and needs disconnecting means. It extends that to energy conservation retrofits. Most Alberta warehouses and commercial buildings are 347 volt. So the cheap ballast bypass lands inside that sentence. A new fixture with no double ended lamps does not.

A proper retrofit uses a certified retrofit product and a new label on every single fixture, per CSA C22.2 No. 250.1, and the retrofit kit has to be certified for the fixture it goes into per STANDATA 24-ECB-002. I price the label. Most low bids do not, and the building owner inherits that at insurance or resale time.

No published OEM image program lighting specification and no IES dealership specific document that I could confirm exists. Everything at the dealership level is either the IES retail table or a vendor field practice sheet. If a quote cites an OEM standard at you, ask to see it.

I quote to 15 to 20 foot candles average, derived from the IES retail table. Vendors commonly design to 30 to 70, and Facility Solutions Group publishes 75 to 100 on feature displays as its own field standard rather than an IES number. Anything above 20 fc average is a merchandising choice, not a requirement, and I will put the energy cost beside it so you can decide. There is no verified OEM image program lighting spec and no IES dealership specific document, so anybody quoting you one should be asked where it came from.

High enough that paint reads true, and the number belongs on the quote. IES publishes recommended levels and criteria by space type. The point is that a showroom is specified on colour rendering first and wattage second, which is the opposite of a warehouse.

Because high pressure sodium sits around CRI 20 to 24. The customer approves paint inside under good light, walks out into orange light, and the colour changes. If I am doing your showroom I want the lot in the same proposal.

It depends entirely on which municipality you are in and the answers do not agree. Sherwood Park and St. Albert require full cutoff. Parkland County requires Dark Sky compliant product on anything needing a permit. Edmonton requires none of it. Full cutoff optics run about 19 percent more, so this is a real line item, not a detail.

$21,026.25 all in on 94 fixtures, about $213 a fixture. I publish the worked number because a priced example is worth more than a range.