Lighting Failure Autopsy: Why Projects Go Wrong and How to Prevent It

Even well-designed lighting systems can fall apart between intent and execution. Color mismatch across fixtures, flicker from poor driver selection, overloaded runs, and controls that don’t behave the way the client expects are rarely caused by a single mistake. More often, they result from small decisions compounding across design, specification, installation, and commissioning.

This panel dissects real-world failures and traces them back to their root causes. Where did the project begin to drift from the original plan? Which assumptions didn’t hold up once the system hit the field? And what should have been caught earlier, whether in documentation, coordination, or commissioning? By walking through these breakdowns step by step, the conversation highlights where risk enters a project and how to remove it before it turns into rework, callbacks, and margin erosion.