Walmart HQ ep.6 – It’s All About The Lights (Video)

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At Barts Electric, innovation isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a way of working smarter. As a national electrical construction contractor, Barts Electric takes pride in finding creative, efficient solutions for even the most demanding projects. In this video, the team highlights one such success story that demonstrates the company’s dedication to planning, precision, and performance.

Identifying the Challenge

When faced with a large-scale lighting installation across multiple buildings—each with open office layouts spanning four floors—Barts Electric identified an opportunity to improve efficiency and quality. Rather than completing every installation detail on site, the team developed a streamlined plan that began long before stepping onto the jobsite.

A Smarter Way to Install

Recognizing that the majority of the project involved lighting, Barts Electric designed a pre-fabrication system using 4×8 sheets of plywood mounted on unistrut. On these boards, the team pre-installed and labeled all driver boards, terminal connections, and wiring at the warehouse. This uniform, pre-wired setup meant that when crews arrived on site, installation was as simple as hanging the board and connecting a few wires.

Results That Speak for Themselves

The results spoke for themselves. Walmart, the client for this project, quickly saw the benefits. Maintenance teams could now service entire quadrants of a building from a single ceiling tile. Instead of disrupting employees in their offices, maintenance personnel could make adjustments in remote, back-of-house areas. The result was a clean, efficient, and user-friendly lighting system that set a new standard for installation quality and serviceability.

Setting the Standard Nationwide

This kind of forward-thinking approach is what makes Barts Electric a trusted name in electrical construction across the nation. Whether it’s commercial, industrial, or design-build projects, the company continues to find ways to deliver excellence through planning, teamwork, and innovation.

Join the Barts Electric Team

For electricians and those looking to enter the trade, Barts Electric offers more than just a job—it offers a career built on craftsmanship, problem-solving, and growth. Barts Electric is always hiring new electrical apprentices and experienced journeymen who want to be part of a company that values quality, teamwork, and innovation.

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A key to our success down here. We saw that the bulk of this job was lighting, right? It’s open offices, all four floors, both sides. For instance, you’ll see that second building back. That’s the old Roy building. That’s the number one building that everyone started on down here.

We were the first ones out of the gate. We set the mold. We decided that these driver boards—all of the lighting throughout the area—is remotely controlled from drivers.

We knew that it would be labor intensive to go in and install all this stuff on site. We came up with a plan: let’s take all these drivers and mount them on a 4×8 sheet of plywood on unistrut, have them all pre-wired, labeled, terminal boards ready to go—uniform—so that when we came on site, we were hanging a board up and connecting wires in. All that work was done back at our warehouse.

Walmart now has seen the ease of maintenance of that installation. They can go to one ceiling tile, lift out the ceiling tile, and that set of driver boards will run that entire quadrant—that fourth of the building. Maintenance people at some point won’t be disturbing the people in their offices at work. They will be off in a remote area, back of house, user-owner-friendly installation.

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A key to our success down here. We saw that the bulk of this job was lighting, right? It’s open offices, all four floors, both sides. For instance, you’ll see that second building back. That’s the old Roy building. That’s the number one building that everyone started on down here.

We were the first ones out of the gate. We set the mold. We decided that these driver boards—all of the lighting throughout the area—is remotely controlled from drivers.

We knew that it would be labor intensive to go in and install all this stuff on site. We came up with a plan: let’s take all these drivers and mount them on a 4×8 sheet of plywood on unistrut, have them all pre-wired, labeled, terminal boards ready to go—uniform—so that when we came on site, we were hanging a board up and connecting wires in. All that work was done back at our warehouse.

Walmart now has seen the ease of maintenance of that installation. They can go to one ceiling tile, lift out the ceiling tile, and that set of driver boards will run that entire quadrant—that fourth of the building. Maintenance people at some point won’t be disturbing the people in their offices at work. They will be off in a remote area, back of house, user-owner-friendly installation.