Specialist Lighting Consultation for M&E Consultants
At Connected Light, we offer specialist lighting consultation and design services tailored to the needs of M&E consultants delivering complex commercial, industrial, and public-sector projects. Whether you’re developing a scheme from the ground up or seeking technical input to refine an existing proposal, our team works alongside yours to provide responsive, regulation-compliant, and cost-effective lighting solutions.
Our involvement ensures that lighting is not only functional and efficient but also integrated seamlessly into the broader MEP strategy – saving time, reducing risk, and helping you meet your client’s expectations. We bring a deep understanding of controls, compliance standards, product selection, and specification integrity – so you can deliver confidently across every stage of the project lifecycle.
Why M&E Consultants Turn to Connected Light
Designing and specifying lighting is just one part of your broader MEP responsibilities – and it can be one of the most technically demanding. Our lighting consultation service helps consultants who are under pressure to deliver fast, accurate, and client-ready designs without getting bogged down in product research, specification changes, or contractor queries.
Here’s why consultants choose to work with us:
- We stay up to date with the latest lighting products, regulations and innovations, so you don’t have to.
- We save time by owning the lighting element of your design package – from scheme layout to controls specification.
- We handle technical queries from contractors and suppliers, including emergency lighting, lighting controls, and connection details.
- We maintain your design intent, supporting you through tender and construction stages to ensure no part of the agreed specification is lost or substituted.
- We support your workload, stepping in to assist when your in-house resources are stretched across multiple projects.
Our support doesn’t just fill a gap – it enhances your service and strengthens delivery.
Common Lighting Challenges
Through our work with M&E consultants across multiple sectors, we’ve identified common issues that delay delivery, reduce design quality, or increase project risk. Our lighting consultation service is specifically designed to address these pain points:
When lighting is one element of a much larger MEP package, design time is often tight. We take full ownership of the lighting element to ensure it’s properly scoped and delivered without compromise.
With new lighting technologies and regulations evolving constantly, it’s hard to stay informed. We ensure your specification is current, practical, and commercially available.
Changes made during the contractor stage can result in substitutions that don’t match the original design intent. We help consultants uphold their specification throughout tender, contractor appointment and procurement.
From LCMs and plug-and-play solutions to lighting control wiring or emergency override circuits, we respond to queries quickly and accurately – saving you time.
We regularly assist with general and emergency lighting control schemes, and can provide fully working systems tailored to your drawings and layout.
When your team is under pressure, we act as a trusted partner – delivering high-quality input that reflects your standards.
End-to-End Support from Design to Handover
Our role doesn’t end with a lighting layout. At Connected Light, we provide full technical support from the initial concept through to handover. This includes controls specification, contractor guidance, emergency lighting design, and final commissioning.
Our process typically includes:
- Reviewing ceiling plans and space layouts
- Recommending luminaires and controls that meet performance and energy targets
- Preparing full lighting calculations and emergency lighting lux level checks
- Advising on controls, switching zones, and integration of LCMs or wireless systems
- Supporting contractors during installation with technical drawings and onsite clarifications
- Providing final documentation, including datasheets and commissioning sign-off
If required, we can even work directly with your appointed contractor to ensure the agreed lighting specification is followed through to completion – helping maintain design quality and ensuring a smooth client handover.
Why Choose Connected Light
Our experience spans commercial offices, healthcare, industrial environments, education, and public-sector developments – and we understand the nuances each project brings. Whether you’re working with existing infrastructure, listed buildings, sustainability-led new builds or tight programme constraints, we’re equipped to assist.
We’ve supported projects involving:
- Industrial fit-outs with high-level lighting and zoning controls
- Public-sector refurbishments requiring detailed compliance documentation
- Client-led office developments with ambitious energy targets
- Warehousing and logistics spaces with motion-activated and daylight-integrated systems
You’ll find us easy to work with, responsive to site demands, and committed to the success of your wider M&E delivery. We can join the project at early RIBA stages or provide focused input during specification and commissioning phases.
To see examples of how we’ve added value across a range of sectors, explore our project experience or see how we support industrial environments.
Supporting Sustainability Goals and Net Zero Targets
Lighting plays a central role in helping buildings meet environmental goals – from reducing carbon emissions to supporting accreditations such as BREEAM or WELL. At Connected Light, our consultation process always considers sustainability alongside performance and practicality.
We regularly help clients specify:
- Long-life, high-efficiency LED systems
- Lighting controls that reduce energy use through daylight harvesting or occupancy detection
- Emergency systems with energy-saving test and maintenance features
- Products with transparent environmental credentials, in line with TM66 circularity guidance
Our designs help consultants and clients meet funding criteria such as those outlined in the North Somerset Green Business Grant, and contribute to wider ambitions such as Bristol’s 2030 decarbonisation target.
Book a Site Visit or Send a Sample
At Connected Light, we don’t just support your design – we strengthen your delivery. Our team includes SC-cleared engineers and DBS-enhanced design staff, giving you the reassurance that we’re ready for even the most sensitive and regulated environments.
We act as a true project partner: proactive, technically sound, commercially aware, and easy to work with. Whether you’re stretched across multiple MEP projects or simply want to enhance your lighting package, we deliver reliable results that reflect your standards and protect your design intent.
From product selection and emergency lighting compliance to on-site commissioning and final sign-off, you’ll benefit from clear communication, deep expertise, and end-to-end continuity.
Related case studies
Turnkey LED Lighting Transformation for RAC
Bradley Stoke Community School
Frampton Cotterell Primary School
The RUH have a close working relationship with Connected Light, working on many projects, having provided equipment and technological advice for a large £1.4 million upgrade from fluorescent LED across the hospital estate.... Read More
Connectedlight have worked for ETS designing and supplying lighting systems that deliver full turnkey projects repeatedly building up a valued trust between the companies.... Read More
I've been a Client of Connected Light when working as a Project Manager for two NHS Trusts in Bristol over the past three years. Every interaction with Matt and the wider team at the company is a positive one... Read More
