One of my contributions to the April 2019 issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR is the results of a survey about contractor attitudes in the lighting market.
Key findings:
- A majority of respondents said their 2018 lighting revenues from CII new construction/major renovation projects (51 percent) and retrofit projects (54 percent) increased in 2018.
- A majority of respondents reported they expect their lighting revenues from CII new construction/major renovation projects (60 percent) and retrofit projects (65 percent) to increase in 2019.
- The average respondent is fairly familiar with major lighting trends. The greatest familiarity is with networked lighting controls and wireless lighting controls. Respondents are least familiar with the IoT, which is not surprising as it is new and evolving.
- A majority of respondents discussed lighting quality (88 percent), color-tunable LED lighting (58 percent), and energy information (51 percent) as lighting product features with customers in 2018. Customers were most interested in lighting quality, followed by energy information and automatic maintenance alerts.
- Seventy-nine percent of the lighting installed by the average respondent in CII new construction/major renovation projects in 2018 was LED-based.
- The average respondent was called back to the job site to address operating issues in 19–22 percent of their 2018 projects involving lamps, light fixtures, lighting controls and networked controls.
- The average respondent has a significant comfort level with novel technologies such as networked lighting controls (51 percent being “very comfortable”) and wireless controls (53 percent). They are least comfortable with the IoT (33 percent).
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