Lighting Survey Services

We document the existing system fixture by fixture: type, count, wattage, mounting height, pole location, and condition. We map the site, including parking fields, drive aisles, pedestrian routes, building entries, and perimeter areas. We record the electrical infrastructure that feeds the system. The result is a single, accurate picture of what is on your property today, which is the information every later phase depends on.

Drawings age, and sites change. Fixtures get replaced, poles get knocked down and not restored, and circuits get modified over a property’s life. An aerial image cannot tell you wattage, mounting height, or whether a fixture is even working. Designing or pricing a project on that kind of estimate is where the costly surprises come from. A survey replaces the guesswork with measured fact before any money is committed.

Qualified field personnel coordinated through OSL. Our in-house electrical engineers are licensed in all 50 states, and our 400+ contractor network gives us qualified relationships in the markets where our clients operate. The people on your property know what to look for and how to record it in a format our engineering team can build from directly.

This is where the survey earns its keep. We run the same process on every property and deliver the results in one standardized format, so you are comparing like to like across your entire portfolio rather than reconciling a different report from a different vendor in each market. For owners who have grown through acquisition, a portfolio-wide survey is often the first time the full lighting inventory exists in one place.

Most custom utility rebate programs pay against measured energy savings, which means they need a documented baseline of the existing system. The survey produces exactly that. Because we capture wattage and fixture counts on the front end, the baseline is already in hand when the rebate file is assembled, rather than reconstructed after the fact when the original conditions are gone.

Yes. The survey can be scoped as a defined deliverable, which is useful when you need accurate existing-conditions documentation for a project file or a photometric design. You get field-verified data your team can build from, without taking on the survey work yourself. Many of our design relationships start exactly this way.

It depends on the size of the property and the number of sites involved. A single retail center is straightforward. A national portfolio is a coordinated program. In both cases, you receive a documented record of the existing system and site conditions, organized so it can feed design, rebate analysis, and procurement without a second pass.

The scope and cost depend on the property size and the number of sites, and we quote it clearly before any work begins. An initial conversation to scope it costs you nothing. We will tell you what the survey requires and what it produces, and if the timing or the project does not warrant it yet, we will say so.

The survey is the front door to the full lifecycle. The data we capture becomes the basis for design, the baseline for rebate capture, the count for procurement, the plan for installation, and the record that warranty management and future upgrade cycles rely on. It is one integrated process, and the survey is what makes every phase after it accurate.