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Alabama Community Rally To Fund Football Field Lighting Project For A Private Catholic High School!
Our client was a small Catholic High School in Alabama that needed a new football lighting system.

Football Field Lighting Project Challenges
Our client had no lights in their football field and could not play at night. They had wanted to invest in football lighting for many years. The biggest challenge they were facing was a limited budget. As a private school, they had limited funding and had to get very creative when it came to planning, requisitioning, and paying for football lighting poles and equipment.

A number of board members and school affiliates networked throughout the community to put together a group of supporters who could function as a design and installation team. Since many of these individuals were licensed professionals, the first things they wanted to know about the different options they looked at was detailed technical information on those products and applications where they could best be installed.

Many of the major lighting firms whom they initially contacted were somewhat reluctant to share this type of detailed information with the school board. They wanted to both design the system and handle the installation of the equipment with their own team.

RLLD Commercial Lighting won the bid because we were willing to both meet the client at the point of their budget and to provide them with detailed conceptual and design services that empowered the client to simply order their football field lights and install them according to the plan we recommended.

Football Field Lighting Design Considerations
The lighting system had to do a bit more than just light the football field. There was an adjacent track that also had to be illuminated. Because this was a small campus with an average of only 50 spectators attending the game, the football field lights did not need to be as intense as those in larger arenas and stadiums. They only had to produce sufficient illumination to light the game and the track nearby.

This essentially constituted Class 3 illumination requirements, with optics featuring a maximum to minimum ratio as low as possible. We also had to consider the adjacent track and just how many fixtures would have to be aimed at it to meet the desired luminance levels.

Photometric Analysis Software Helped Us Develop A Custom Football Field Stadium Lighting System Unique To This Challenging Environment
We first separated the lighting requirements for the football field from those of the track to avoid any miscalculation of necessary foot candles. We did a point-by-point analysis of both fields using CAD files sent to us by the school. Based upon the number of spectators provided by the school—approximately 50 per game—we determined that the football field lights would perform optimally at 25 foot candles. To safeguard against glare, we selected the appropriate optics to distribute light evenly over the football field and the track.

Final Football Field Lighting System Proposed
The final system proposed to and ultimately accepted by the client consisted of 10 pole locations in total with 74 1500 watt metal halide sports lighting fixtures. The school love the outcome, and thanked us repeatedly for letting them finally play football at night for the first time in the history of their institution.

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