Background
Stroik Lighting Design (SLD), founded in February 2014, is a full service lighting design practice located in Washington DC that collaborates with designers, architects, landscape architects, developers, contractors, and private clients in the development and realization of lighting design. Priding itself in scrutinizing project requirements while maximizing objectives of sustainability, maintainability, excellence, and transcendence, SLD strives to contribute positive and meaningful solutions through the medium of light. SLD is certified as a Small Business Enterprise.

Design Approach
Led by Christopher V. Stroik, SLD’s design approach considers design problems as welcome opportunities to explore formal, meaningful, and/or pragmatic issues expressed or manifested with light. Working closely with the Design Team and Client, SLD strives to interface with minimal presuppositions that might detract from a healthy and productive design enterprise. As such, SLD takes cues and direction from the larger design objectives and strategies that precede participation to enhance, exploit, reinforce, refine, and celebrate the design notions, visions, aspirations and programmatic mission of the project at hand. Utilizing both cutting edge technology and practical experience, SLD offers insight and ingenuity that considers function, aesthetics, budget, energy, green initiatives, cost effectiveness, and maintainability in the enterprise of design.

Services
SLD provides lighting design services ranging from specific investigative survey work to full phased design processes of architectural projects to execution of direct on-hands focusing of luminaries, programming of lighting control systems, and followup evaluations. Specific services associated with interior, exterior, landscape, and urban design projects of all private or public manner include:

• Electric Lighting Design Layouts, Details, and Specifications
• Natural Daylighting Design
• Custom Luminaire Design and Coordination
• Conceptual Lighting Diagrams and Renderings
• Computer Lighting Calculations
• Lighting Mockups
• Lighting Focusing
• Lighting Control System Programming
• LEED certification
• SBE certification
• Feasibility Studies and Master Planning
• Budgetary Analysis

Depending on the specific project requirements, schedule, budget, and process, SLD is happy to work on a fixed, hourly, or hybrid basis that effectively manages design tasks and deliverables to service the project’s best interests. Ultimately, the design work is predicated on maximizing products in a cost effective and meaningful manner to support the greater goals and objectives established for the project at hand. As such, SLD thrives in a collaborative design enterprise with all relevant parties in the design process.

Christopher V. Stroik, AIA, IALD, MIES
With some 22 years working primarily as a lighting designer, manager, and practitioner, Chris has a rich knowledge base in the world of lighting design. Educated and licensed as an architect, Chris approaches design problems as welcome opportunities to explore formal, meaningful, and/or pragmatic issues expressed or manifested with light. Working closely with a variety of clients, Chris has worked on many award winning world class projects over the past two decades. Art Museums, History Museums, Civic Memorials, Educational Facilities, Corporate Offices, Speculative Office Buildings, Government Office and Research Facilities, Medical Care and Research Facilities, Restaurants, Retail, Gardens, Outdoor Sculpture, Private Residences, and Prototypical Experiments.