Creating tailored lighting solutions for offices, retail, residential, and commercial interiors. Our calculation-led designs balance the requirements of each space with practical, standards-compliant layouts that reduce coordination issues and rework.
Industrial lighting design has to work at a scale most other lighting disciplines don't — a single warehouse or manufacturing floor can span tens of thousands of square metres, with high-bay racking, inspection areas, loading yards, and plant rooms all carrying different requirements within the same building. Calculate it conservatively across the whole floorplate, and the facility carries avoidable fixture and energy cost for its entire operating life. HLS Consultants is a specialist industrial lighting design consultancy, providing calculation-led, standards-compliant lighting design for warehouses, manufacturing plants, and industrial facilities across the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Middle East.
Whether you're an engineering consultancy needing design capacity for an industrial lighting package within a wider development, a Tier 1 contractor delivering lighting as part of a logistics or manufacturing facility contract, a local authority relighting a council-operated industrial site, or an infrastructure developer building a warehouse or logistics scheme, our industrial lighting design service is built around one outcome: a lighting layout calculated for consistent coverage across the full floorplate, engineered to reduce the risk of rework at review.
HLS Consultants is a design-only lighting consultancy — we do not supply luminaires and we do not carry out installation, electrical connection works, or statutory approval submissions. What we deliver is the technical backbone of a compliant industrial lighting scheme: the design, the calculations, the verification, and the documentation your team, contractor, or facility operator needs to move a scheme forward.
Our industrial lighting design service covers warehouses, manufacturing plants, distribution centres, and industrial facilities, including high-bay storage areas, production floors, loading yards, and outdoor operational areas — for both new build schemes and retrofit or upgrade projects, including relighting of existing facilities as part of an LED conversion or energy efficiency programme. This makes the service equally relevant whether a facility is being lit from scratch as part of a new build, or an existing plant is being upgraded to current lighting and energy efficiency standards.
Industrial interiors are governed by task-based illuminance requirements under BS EN 12464-1, with BS EN 12464-2 applying to outdoor work areas such as yards and loading zones — high-bay racking, inspection and assembly areas, and general circulation each carry a different requirement within the same building. Calculate the layout conservatively rather than precisely across a large floorplate, and the cost compounds: more fixtures than the task requires, more energy drawn across every shift, and more maintenance liability across a facility that may run lighting for extended hours.
This is the discipline a specialist industrial lighting design consultancy is built to hold. HLS Consultants calculates each zone of a facility to the illuminance and uniformity its specific task actually requires, rather than applying a single conservative lux target across the whole floorplate to avoid doing the zone-by-zone calculation.
Industrial lighting design generally falls into one of two categories. New build schemes — a new warehouse, a new manufacturing plant, a new distribution centre — start from a clean design brief, where the lighting layout is calculated directly from the building's structural grid and operational zoning. Retrofit and upgrade schemes start from an existing facility, often one lit to an older standard, with ageing high-bay fixtures, or with operational zoning that's changed since the original lighting scheme was designed.
HLS Consultants designs for both. On new build schemes, we calculate the lighting layout from the structural grid and operational zoning from first principles. On retrofit and upgrade schemes — including LED conversion and relighting following a change in facility use — we design around the existing structure wherever possible, flagging where a genuine change in fixture position or specification is required by the calculation rather than defaulting to a full redesign.
Industrial lighting schemes tend to run into a similar handful of problems, regardless of region. A large floorplate is lit to a single conservative lux target rather than zone-by-zone requirements, leaving the facility over-specified in low-task areas and under-specified in high-bay or inspection zones that needed more capacity. A retrofit reuses an existing fixture layout without recalculating for a change in racking height or operational use, and the upgrade under-delivers against current requirements. Lighting design proceeds without coordination with the facility's M&E and structural design, resulting in fixture positions that clash with racking, ductwork, or crane runs once both designs reach the same drawing.
Each of these is a calculation or coordination failure, not a technical one — and each is avoidable with a design process that calculates zone by zone rather than applying one lux target across the whole facility, and that coordinates directly with the wider M&E and structural design team. That's the process HLS Consultants applies to every industrial lighting scheme, regardless of scale or region.
Every industrial lighting scheme we design follows the same structured, verifiable process — from the survey data you provide through to a fully checked documentation package ready for submission.
You supply the structural grid, floor plan, and racking or operational layout for the facility. We carry out desktop assessment of the layout and zoning — no site visit is required from HLS directly. This keeps the design process fast to start and easy to run alongside your facility or M&E team’s own workload.
Photometric calculations are carried out first, using Lighting Reality and DIALux, to establish the lux levels and uniformity required for each zone — under BS EN 12464-1 for indoor task areas and BS EN 12464-2 for outdoor yards and loading zones. Only once the calculation is correct do we develop the layout in CAD and BIM, coordinated to the structural grid, racking, and wider M&E design. Calculating before modelling means the layout reflects a design that’s already been verified zone by zone, not a single fixture count applied uniformly and checked afterward.
Fixture and luminaire specification is selected to meet the required lux levels and uniformity for each zone’s task, balancing high-bay coverage against realistic fixture count and long-term energy load across extended operating hours.
Calculations and layout are checked against BS EN 12464-1 and BS EN 12464-2 for the relevant zones, before issue. This verification step happens before the scheme is submitted, not after a reviewer or facility operator flags an under-lit inspection area or an over-specified storage zone.
The final documentation package is issued in CAD files, PDF documentation, and inventory/schedule data in spreadsheet format — structured to be used directly in your submission or construction process, without your team needing to reformat or rebuild it first.
HLS Consultants designs to the specific standards relevant to industrial and warehouse lighting in each region, rather than applying a single generic standard across every market
Confirming the governing standard set and the facility's operational zoning with you at the outset of every engagement means there's no ambiguity later — the scheme is calculated once, zone by zone, rather than adjusted after an operator or reviewer flags a coverage gap.
Industrial lighting design work reaches us through several different routes, and we structure the engagement around how you actually need to use the output.
We provide design capacity for warehouse and industrial lighting packages that sit within a wider development scheme you’re delivering, calculated to the same precision your own team would apply if resourced to take it on internally.
Industrial lighting design is bundled into a logistics, manufacturing, or distribution facility construction contract, sequenced to your build programme rather than delivered as a disconnected specialist workstream.
Industrial lighting design is bundled into a logistics, manufacturing, or distribution facility construction contract, sequenced to your build programme rather than delivered as a disconnected specialist workstream.
We support relighting of council-operated industrial sites and depots — LED conversion or an energy efficiency upgrade — packaged for straightforward technical sign-off within your own approval process.
We support relighting of council-operated industrial sites and depots — LED conversion or an energy efficiency upgrade — packaged for straightforward technical sign-off within your own approval process.
We deliver industrial lighting design for warehouse, logistics, and manufacturing developments, calculated to control both capital cost and ongoing running cost across extended operating hours.
We deliver industrial lighting design for warehouse, logistics, and manufacturing developments, calculated to control both capital cost and ongoing running cost across extended operating hours.
We provide design capacity for warehouse and industrial lighting packages that sit within a wider development scheme you’re delivering, calculated to the same precision your own team would apply if resourced to take it on internally.
We calculate each zone — high-bay storage, inspection and assembly areas, general circulation — to its own task-based requirement under BS EN 12464-1, rather than applying one conservative lux target across the whole facility. That keeps high-task zones properly lit and low-task zones from being over-specified.
Both — indoor task areas are designed to BS EN 12464-1, and outdoor yards and loading zones are designed to BS EN 12464-2, so the whole facility is covered to the correct standard for each area.
Yes — industrial lighting design is coordinated with the facility's wider M&E and structural design to avoid clashes with racking, ductwork, or crane runs at installation stage.
No — we work from the structural grid, floor plan, and racking or operational layout you supply, plus desktop assessment of the site. Where a physical visit is genuinely required, we coordinate it through our delivery partners in the UK and Ireland on a chargeable basis.
We're a design consultancy — fixture supply, installation, and electrical connection works sit outside our scope. What you receive is CAD files, PDF documentation, and inventory/schedule data in spreadsheet format, structured to be submission-ready.
UK and Irish industrial schemes are both designed to BS EN 12464-1 for indoor areas and BS EN 12464-2 for outdoor areas. Middle East schemes are calculated to the same illuminance and task-lighting principles, coordinated with the relevant local authority or building code's requirements. We confirm the governing standard set and operational zoning with you at project kickoff.
Yes — industrial lighting is frequently designed across several units on the same site, and we coordinate the packages together so the whole development is calculated to a consistent standard rather than each unit being treated as a separate engagement.
Partner with HLS Consultants for expert lighting design, backed by electrical design and CAD/BIM expertise.
Partner with HLS Consultants for expert lighting design, backed by electrical design and CAD/BIM expertise.
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