Smarter Lighting Design for Architects.
Faster, Compliant, and Manufacturer-Agnostic.
Luminous Works provides New Zealand small to medium architectural practices with a Revit workflow that enables self-service lighting design that complies with commercial, education, and healthcare requirements.
We compliment this with expert lighting consulting services where specialist qualifications are required to de-risk your projects.
The Suite
Your (self) Curated Revit Toolkit
A subscription service providing:
- Meticulously crafted, lightweight, and fully parametric Revit light fitting families;
- Complete and reliable luminaire schedules for every project;
- Instant light level calculations as you lay out your reflected ceiling plans.
Eliminate hours of searching for, and cleaning up poor-quality content.
Key Feature: Your Supplier's Products
Your family suite is customised with specific photometric data from the manufacturers you already use, maintain your relationship with your trusted suppliers, ensuring design flexibility, local support, and accurate specifications.
The Expertise
Your Specialist Lighting Partner
Expert, independent lighting design consultancy focused on high-liability areas.
- Emergency Lighting Design (NZBC F6/F8 Compliant)
- Energy Efficiency Design (NZBC H1 Compliant)
- Daylighting Analysis (NZBC G7 Compliant)
Key Feature: Quick Turnaround
Subscribers recieve assurance of design compliance for Building Consent Authorities (BCAs) in a guaranteed 10-day turnaround.
A Seamless Workflow
From Design to Compliance in Four Simple Steps.
Add space data to rooms
Click the Luminous Works button to create spaces for all of the rooms in the project.
Tag spaces with the light level
Place space tags on your reflected ceiling plans to show the estimated lux levels in each room.
Place light fittings
Use our light fittings to see the lux level update live as you place the fittings. You know instantly how many luminaires are required to meet the compliance minimum.
Review the schedule
Copy our luminaire schedule into your project, as you place luminaires the schedule automatically populates with specific and relevant data - <em>your</em> prefered suppliers, <em>your</em> preferred manufacturers.
Break Free from Manufacturer Lock-In
Discover the difference between generic, "free" content and a professionally curated, performance-optimised library.
Manufacturer Luminaires (Too Much)
- Inconsistent quality & standards
- Bloated file sizes that slow down projects
- Restrictive, non-standard parameters
- "Manufacturer lock-in" limiting design freedom
- Hinders competitive specification
The Luminous Works Library (The Solution)
- Rigorously quality-controlled & standardised
- Lightweight, performant, and efficient
- Fully parametric for ultimate flexibility
- Your preferred Manufacturer
- Up to date product data pre-loaded
- Empowers true design-led specification
Generic Luminaires (Too Little)
- Limited relationship of form to actual product
- Bloated file sizes that slow down projects
- Standards not compatible with manufacturer supplied families
- No product data pre-loaded
- Hinders accurate specification
Simple, Transparent Pricing
Choose the plan that's right for your practice.
Light
$65/mo
recommended for 1-2 designers
- 4 fittings in initial suite
- +1 fitting credit/month
- Training and Setup
Bright
$85/mo
recommended for practices of up to 10 designers
- 5 fittings in initial suite
- +1 fitting credit/month
- +1 "IES-Swap" credit/month
- Training and setup
- Team management
Fancy
$115/mo
recommended for interior designers
- 10 fittings in initial suite
- 1 free custom luminaire family/month
- (converts to +1 fitting or +2 "IES Swap" credits if not used)
- Dedicated training and support
- Team management
The Fine Print:
All plans have an initial commitment of 12 months • No limit to how many fitting or "IES-Swap" credits can accrue and no expiry on credits • "IES-Swap" allows you to add another set of product data to one of the fitting families you already have • Charged per practice location, not per user — feel free to select a higher or lower tier to suit the type of work you do, like to stick to a tight suite of fittings you are familiar with? Choose the Light tier, often do complex projects with a lot of different fittings? Go Fancy. It's your choice.
Expert Services
Services are available as fixed-fee packages for standard projects (generally no more than 2 storeys) and hourly rates for bespoke consulting. Your discounted fixed fee rates will be sent through with your subscription and guaranteed for a full year.
Founded by Experts in BIM and Lighting Design
Luminous Works was founded by a team of dedicated professionals with decades of combined experience at the intersection of architecture, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and specialist lighting engineering.
We understand the pressures faced by modern architectural practices in New Zealand. Our mission is to provide the precise tools and expert support that empower architects to deliver exceptional, compliant, and profitable projects.
Trusted by Leading Architectural Practices
We're proud to partner with firms that value quality and efficiency.