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You Asked for New Poles, We Delivered
Based on your feedback, we have rebuilt our pole portfolio from the ground up. Our new aluminum pole portfolio offers an array of pole features and heights, better accommodates LED fixtures, and greatly improves the modification process to meet your lighting design needs.
The improved portfolio includes:
- Straight and tapered poles
- Fixed and hinged base poles
- Pole options for high – wind conditions
- Pedestrian scale (8′- 16′)
- Site & Area scale (16’–35′)
Scaled for Pedestrians (8′-16′)
Scaled for Site & Area (16’–35′)
Bollard Inspiration
We are sharing three of our favorite projects that incorporate bollards perfectly.
Click each project to view all the stunning photos.
Lighting a Path with Bollards
This educational article explains how the mounting height, spacing, and light distribution of bollards can affect the overall design and illuminance levels.
BEGA In-grade Luminaires
New BEGA In-grade luminaires are available in three segments including round, square, and pathway grazers. Utilizing BEGA Tricoat® technology, these luminaires maintain their appearance over time, while operating at peak performance regardless of weather conditions, usage, or installation method.
Explore New In-grade Families
In-grade luminaires are available in three segments including round, square, and pathway grazers. Utilizing BEGA Tricoat® technology, these luminaires maintain their appearance over time, while operating at peak performance regardless of weather conditions, usage, or installation method.
Three layers of defense. Trusted durability.
In-grade luminaires are subjected to some of the most intense environmental conditions day in and day out. BEGA saw an opportunity for improvement and ran with it.
BEGA Tricoat®, a 3-layer coating technology for corrosion protection, was developed to enable the use of aluminum for in-grade luminaires in highly corrosive environments. This allows us to fully capture the benefits of die-cast aluminum without sacrificing our trusted durability.
Learn how this fundamental design change on our latest in-grade luminaire families will benefit your next project.
Innovative Edge-lit Technology
When developing BEGA’s first edge-lit pole-top luminaire, product designers spent months trying to remove the interreflection in the acrylic diffuser but the longer they studied it, the more they fell in love with that unique effect. After months perfecting the design, it was introduced to our product portfolio in 2016 and has been modeled by our competitors ever since.
A key characteristic of edge-lit technology is the excellent glare control of the illuminated surface, resulting in a light source that is comfortable to look at. This also results in very uniform illumination, both of the surface itself, and of the resulting light distribution.
Superior quality. Exquisite design details.
Outstanding visual comfort.
Edge-lit luminaires are available in three segments
Pair our pole-top, building element, and bollard edge-lit options in your lighting design to create a cohesive and consistent lighting effect throughout a space.
Introducing BEGA Exterior Catalog 21
BEGA’s Exterior Catalog 21 includes a wide range of exterior solutions manufactured with the highest quality materials and offering excellent performance. Explore the entire catalog by downloading a digital copy today.
Wooden system bollards
Wood is a vibrant and emotional material that conveys comfort, warmth and an affinity with nature. At the same time, wood boasts a high degree of durability. Designed for easy attachment to BEGA system bollard heads, wooden system bollard tubes are now available.
Recessed wall redesign
With a refined look, increased light output, and contractor friendly enhancements for ease of installation and quality assurance, BEGA’s unwavering commitment to quality above all permeates everything about this new approach to recessed wall luminaires.
Façade illumination
Complementing the already popular linear façade system, BEGA’s new in-ground and on-ground façade floodlights make it possible to fully illuminate any vertical surface from the ground up. Equally beautiful and effective, each approach offers a high degree of flexibility.
Introducing BEGA Interior Catalog 20
Featuring 208 new products and product enhancements across 63 families, BEGA Interior Catalog 20 includes a wide range of interior solutions manufactured with the highest quality materials and offering excellent performance. Explore the entire catalog by downloading a digital copy today.
Now with Tunable White
Our Tunable White Collection allows you to adjust the color temperature and adapt the illumination perfectly to your lighting requirements or to the required mood. 25 luminaires are now optionally available with DALI controllable tunable white technology (2700K – 6500K).
Introducing BEGA Unidure®
Peace of mind for decades.
Meeting the highest quality standards for an architectural finish, BEGA Unidure® offers phenomenal weathering properties and world-class color retention.
Quality above all
Whether baking in the sun or freezing in the cold, architectural outdoor luminaires endure some of the most rigorous, day-to-day durability challenges associated with the built environment. Selecting an exterior architectural finish that preserves the longest lifespan possible can be a daunting task. With BEGA Unidure®, a fluoropolymer technology, you now have peace of mind for decades. Luminaires achieve even more brilliant, long-lasting colors that look fresh and vivid year after year. The unique chemical structure improves corrosion resistance, ensuring a longer life than any other finish available today.
Surviving the elements
Aluminum has long been the construction material of choice for a wide variety of products, including architectural outdoor luminaires. These products must be protected against the elements in order to survive. Atmospheric corrosion from acid rain, marine environments, high alkaline soils, high heat, and humidity can all cause these items to fail. That is why all aluminum products require a protective coating. Topcoats formulated with fluoroethylene vinyl ether (FEVE) resins – also known as fluoropolymer technology – maintain their bright colors for 20 years or more. As a result, luminaires can look as good as new for decades. Additionally, FEVE resins provide outstanding protection against UV radiation, oxidation, humidity, and corrosion.
Our Standard Finishes
BEGA exterior luminaires are available in four standard colors: Black, Bronze, Silver, and White. These powder coat finishes are applied electrostatically to a minimum of 3.0 mil thickness with a deep matte, fine textured coating. This distinct look, most noticeable with BEGA Black, provides the highest quality, most graceful aging, and elegantly masks the buildup of particulates over time. BEGA Unidure® finish, a fluoropolymer technology, provides superior fade protection in Black, Bronze, and Silver. Given its minimal usage for exterior applications, and a customer experience that does not necessitate superior fade protection, BEGA standard White remains a Super Durable Polyester Powder. BEGA also offers custom color and finish options which must be specified at an added cost.
Material selection
Fluoropolymers are typically used in architectural markets due to their phenomenal weathering properties and world-class color and gloss retention. Their corrosion resistance and excellent weatherability make them extremely popular for exterior architectural applications like curtain walls, windows, doors and more.
The two most common types of Fluoropolymers found in powder coatings are FEVE, and PVDF. PVDF Fluoropolymers always need a primer beneath them, whether liquid or powder, and are much more difficult to bond when creating metallic powders. FEVE resins are the most popular within the powder community for their superior single coat capability and incredible exterior performance. FEVE based Fluoropolymer metallics can also be bonded so that when applied, the metallic flake is more evenly distributed throughout the powder for a more consistent appearance. As an example, BEGA’s standard Silver (SLV) finish is a bonded metallic. Fluoropolymer powders are usually only available to members of a Certified Applicator program, as the service life of this top coating can last over 20-years when applied by a Certified Applicator.
Finishing methods
All BEGA luminaires go through a multi-stage preparation, finishing and curing process, which provides the most durable and corrosion resistant finish available in the lighting industry today. What should you take away from this? Regardless of which powder is used, alloy preparation is critical to the longevity of a finish in application!
Environmentally conscious
All BEGA finishes are RoHS compliant. BEGA’s finishing process is a closed-loop system, meaning extra precautions are taken to manage the waste-water stream, and absolutely no water or chemicals are discharged into the local sewer system. Our process is chrome-free and phosphate-free, making it the logical choice for environmentally conscious clients. Hexavalent chromium, the toxic compound used in typical conversion coat systems, presents grave problems with handling and hazardous waste disposal (à la Erin Brockovich). In contrast, BEGA’s system is closed loop and filtered, eliminating all emissions. What does this all mean? BEGA takes a great deal of care and concern to be a good steward of the environment.
Certified applicator
BEGA North America has successfully met the stringent AAMA 2605-17a requirements and is a certified fluoropolymer applicator, giving us access to the industry’s highest quality materials.
Introducing BEGA Wooden Poles
BEGA’s wooden poles are perfectly suited for every project thanks to their quality of design and beautiful craftmanship.
BEGA has always strived to create products which are a seamless blend of tradition and innovation. Our products – from the forms to the materials used – are intended to be architecturally neutral and timeless. The introduction of BEGA wooden poles provides architectural designers and urban planners with an opportunity to soften the built environment using natural materials of the highest quality. Pair BEGA pole top luminaires with a wide variety of wooden pole styles and finishes for the perfect combination of form and function.
Round or square, tapered or straight – BEGA’s wooden poles are perfectly suited for every project thanks to their quality of design and beautiful craftsmanship. Round styles are available in four heights, square styles are available in three heights.
With over 60,000 species of trees on Earth, wood has been a trusted construction material in nearly all regions of the world for centuries. Each species has their own unique strengths, but the Scots Pine trees of Northern Europe are especially well suited for structural applications due to their slow, straight and sturdy growth.
BEGA’s wooden poles are crafted exclusively from Scots Pine trees forested between 80 and 100 years of growth. This timespan yields a minimum diameter of 250mm to ensure the required strength and volume for structural use.