Commercial lighting resources
This page is the starting point for Steel Tech Lights planning guides, product explainers, and layout help. If you are choosing fixtures for a warehouse, parking lot, shop, or other commercial site, you can use these resources to get oriented, then contact us if you want a second look. Founder Joe started the company after 17 years in the lighting business, and these pages are meant to give you the same kind of straight answers you would get on a call.
Request a lighting layout
The most useful next step on a new project is often a plan, not a shopping cart. Use our free lighting layout request to send the size of the space, the ceiling or pole height, the voltage, and any photos or sketches you have. We will help with fixture type, count, and placement. If the job also needs a photometric plan, tell us that when you write.
Planning guides
These published guides walk through common commercial jobs in more detail:
For high-ceiling storage and production, start with the high bay buying guide, the warehouse lighting by ceiling height guide, and the warehouse lighting mistakes guide. Then shop warehouse lights, UFO high bays, and linear high bays.
For outdoor sites, use the parking lot lighting guide with parking lot lights, steel light poles, and LED wall packs. Fuel canopies and similar sites are covered in our gas station lighting layout guide and the LED canopy lights and gas station lighting collections. Aimed yard and facade lighting lives in LED flood lights.
Shops, offices, and farms have their own guides: the shop lighting guide, the auto shop lighting guide, the office lighting guide, and the farm and barn lighting guide. If you are replacing older HID fixtures, keep the metal halide to LED replacement chart handy.
Explainers
These shorter pages define the terms and choices that come up on almost every commercial project:
The lighting glossary explains lumens, color temperature, foot-candles, and related terms in plain language. IP ratings and wet locations covers dry, damp, and wet ratings and what an IP code is telling you. Photocells and motion sensors explains dusk-to-dawn and occupancy control, with more detail in our motion sensor lighting guide. LED fixture mounting options compares yoke, slip-fitter, hook, grid, and other mounts. 277V and 480V LED lighting explains higher-voltage supplies without changing the voltage listed on any product page.
Color temperature has its own guide: 3000K vs 4000K vs 5000K. Listing and rebate basics are in DLC listing and utility rebates and on our certifications and listings page. Always check the individual product page for the listings on that fixture.
Shop by application
When you are ready to browse fixtures, these collections cover the most common commercial jobs: outdoor fixtures, LED troffers, LED strip lights, vapor tight lights, exit signs and emergency lights, and 480V lighting. Hazardous locations are a separate decision — see explosion-proof lighting and confirm the listing on the product page with your electrician or engineer.
Orders, warranty, and questions
Policy details live on their own pages: our 5-year warranty, 60-day returns, and shipping policy. Orders ship in 1–3 business days. For order and project questions, see our FAQs. Contractors and other volume buyers can start at wholesale orders. If you cannot find what you need here, contact us and we will help you get it right.