A photometric design and lighting engineering practice built for commercial permitting.

Photometric Bureau was established by the photometric design team at Jarvis Lighting, a national lighting distributor. After years of producing permit-ready plans for Jarvis clients, we opened the practice to serve any project — regardless of fixture source or supplier. The same team, the same tools, the same standards.

Our mission is a direct path to documentation that holds up. Photometric plans, load calculations, energy code compliance certificates, and controls schedules — clear enough for review, disciplined enough for code coordination, and fast enough for real project schedules.

Manufacturer-agnostic design is central to the work. Every Photometric Bureau plan is scoped to your project's fixture selection and your jurisdiction's code — not to any product line. We confirm the scope and fee before anything begins. No product obligations. No fixture lock-in.

Speed matters because the requirement rarely surfaces at a convenient moment. The result is a practice built for clarity under deadline — technically sound work, an efficient process, and a final package that moves through plan review without unnecessary friction.

We handle the full scope of lighting applications engineering — from fixture layout design through photometric calculations, permit documentation, controls engineering, and commissioning. The photometric plan is the centerpiece, but it's one document in a complete package. One team, one timeline.