Betacalco

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: BLOCK, ceiling mounted with curved end caps.

Clean linear runs, a soft finished edge, and uniform, even light from a seamless rollout diffuser. At the Wake County ABC Board in Raleigh, BLOCK sits quietly within the architecture and lets the room do the talking. Form and function, specified for the space.

Project: Wake County ABC Board
Location: Raleigh, NC
Agent: V3 Lighting
Specifier: Redline Design Group
Photography: Sterling E. Stevens

Explore BLOCK: sm.betacalco.com/bpf

EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT:

Shahzeb Siddiqui, Engineering Team Lead

Good lighting starts long before it reaches a ceiling. It starts with the people who turn concepts into real products. To open our Meet the Team series, meet Shahzeb Siddiqui, our Engineering Team Lead and the engineer behind our latest product, Bend-It.

✎ How long have you been with Beta-Calco, and how did you get here?
I've been with Beta-Calco for 8 years. After completing my studies in Mechanical Engineering, I joined as a Design Engineer and have continued to grow both technically and professionally throughout my career here.

✎ What does a typical week look like as Engineering Team Lead?
My role is about supporting both our customers and the engineering team through technical and operational work. I create quotation drawings, Bills of Materials, and SOPs, and I guide and mentor engineers on CAD design and documentation. I also focus on improving efficiency through workflow optimization while managing product configurations and the technical specification pages on our website.

✎ Walk us through a recent lighting challenge and how you solved it.
A recent challenge was designing a flexible joint for our linear product line that could rotate at various angles while staying durable and preventing light leaks. I developed an overmolded silicone and cast aluminum design that kept the flexibility while creating a secure, tight connection.

✎ What's your favorite part of working at Beta-Calco?
I enjoy turning concepts into real products and solving design challenges that improve manufacturability, assembly, and overall product quality. I also like finding ways to streamline and automate engineering processes to help the whole team work more efficiently.

Product SPOTLIGHT: BOGGLE™

Comfort you can measure.

Glare is one of the most overlooked parts of lighting quality. Too much of it leads to eye strain, headaches, and lost concentration, especially during screen work and other visually demanding tasks. The industry measures it with the Unified Glare Rating (UGR), a CIE metric where lower numbers mean greater visual comfort. The scale runs from about 10, imperceptible glare, up to 31, intolerable.

Boggle is built for the low end of that scale. With the right configuration, it is one of the few luminaires able to reach a UGR below 10. A precision louver manages brightness at the source, making it well suited to the spaces with the strictest comfort targets.

Specify it three ways to fit the ceiling: Suspended, Ceiling, and Recessed. Pair it with Tunable White to match the light to the hour and the task.
Form and function, working together by design.

Explore Boggle: sm.betacalco.com/bff

Last week we teamed up with Acuity Brands Canada to co-host our Open House, FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Party, ahead of the tournament arriving in Toronto this summer.

Thank you to all the architects, designers, specifiers, and partners who joined us. Great people, great food, and a chance to show our latest work in person.
Thanks to the Acuity Brands team and everyone at Beta-Calco who made it happen.

Product SPOTLIGHT: The OOOOH™ Family

A simple idea, executed precisely. A distinctive louver system sets OOOOH apart from conventional linear and curved lighting. An array of ellipses, shaped to form a tunnel-like louver, tempers the starkness of a standard diffuser to minimize glare and offer exceptional visual comfort. Offered in five finishes: Black, White, Satin Chrome, Satin Gold, and Satin Champagne. What started as a linear concept has grown into a family of nine. The same louver language now spans:

Linear (Suspended, Ceiling, Wall, Recessed)
Geometric (Quad, Systems)
Ring (Suspended, Ceiling)
Kurl (Suspended)

One design vocabulary, the flexibility to specify it for open plan offices, classrooms, corridors, board rooms, and the modern spaces in between. A comprehensive lighting family designed to turn functional light into a luxurious architectural feature.

Explore the full OOOOH family: sm.betacalco.com/off

Nothing quite like seeing your own product overhead.

We just hung two BEND-IT fixtures at the Beta-Calco office, the same flexible linear system that anchored our LEDucation 2026 booth and earned the Illuminating Engineering Society Innovation Award at The MEET Show in Moncton last month.

What makes BEND-IT a favorite around here: a flexible silicone joiner that lets a single run flow from straight lines into curves, loops, even closed geometric shapes: triangles, squares, hexagons, whatever the ceiling calls for.

Up to a combined 1800 LM/FT, tunable white, and straight section lengths from 2' to 50' in Satin Black with curved endcaps.

Designing lighting we'd want to live under is the whole point. Now we actually do.

Learn more: sm.betacalco.com/wsu

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR INNOVATION AWARD WINNER!

A panel of judges have selected the Betacalco Bend-It™ as the winner of this year's Illuminating Engineering Society Innovation Award!

Bend-It™ is a highly adaptable lighting system built around a flexible joiner that bends up to 360 degrees in any horizontal direction, enabling smooth transitions and continuous, flowing layouts. This flexibility allows the fixture to respond naturally to architectural conditions, supporting expressive runs and organic compositions without breaking visual continuity. Bend-It™ can also be configured into closed-loop shapes to create geometric layouts in a wide range of sizes. Each mounting point can be adjusted for further flexibility and to respond intuitively to difficult site conditions.

Composed of lit sectional lengths from 2’ to 50’ on a single driver, the system supports a wide range of configurations while maintaining a consistent dimensional profile with curved end caps to complete the run with a smooth, integrated finish. BEND-IT has a wide range of configurations including direct and indirect lumen packages, CCTs and open-standard control systems to align with project requirements. BEND-IT boasts lumen efficacy up to 94 LPW, enabling uniform lighting while lowering energy demand.

Now that's Innovation!

Product SPOTLIGHT

LUMI-ARC brings fluid, architectural geometry to interior design, backed by up to 27,000lm up / 19,000lm down, CRI 90+, and color temperatures from 2700K to 4000K. Designed for spaces that call for more than a straight line, this system lets designers create curved forms that shape and define the environment around them.

Whether you're looking to soften a sharp architectural transition or create a bold, organic focal point, LUMI-ARC delivers the performance to back up the aesthetics. It's lighting engineered to perform and designed to be noticed.

Configure yours at: sm.betacalco.com/lfa

We're excited to announce the release of our new white paper, a comprehensive guide to understanding Tunable White Technology in lighting design. This in-depth resource breaks down Tunable White technology, how it works, and how precise CCT control can support comfort, performance, and circadian alignment. Discover how Tunable White Technology is transforming the way we assess and design human-centric spaces that align with our circadian rhythms.

Download the White Paper Today!
https://sm.betacalco.com/twf

View the web version here:
https://sm.betacalco.com/tlf