Reed Burkett Lighting Design

Name

Reed Burkett Lighting Design

Legal name

Reed Burkett Lighting Design Incorporated

Website

https://rbldi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Lighting Design Services

NAICS

Other Specialized Design Services (54149)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Lighting Design Services (BPAHAKAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Landscape Lighting Design & Layout (HSAIAHAA)

Keywords

• Architectural lighting design
• Lighting consultancy services
• Museum lighting design
• Landscape lighting design
• Commercial lighting design

Headquarters

HQ city

St Louis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Lighting Design Professional Services: The firm provides custom lighting design services for architectural projects including cultural institutions, commercial buildings, healthcare facilities, higher education, hospitality, retail spaces, and public landmarks. Revenue is generated through professional services engagements for project-based work.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Reed Burkett Lighting Design (RBLD) is a Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) professional lighting design consultancy that provides custom architectural and landscape lighting design services for cultural institutions, healthcare facilities, higher education campuses, corporate offices, hospitality venues, retail spaces, and public/government projects. The firm delivers project-based lighting design across studios in St. Louis, MO and Chicago, IL, drawing on combined expertise from Randy Burkett Lighting Design, Envision Lighting Design, and Aurora Lighting Design. Services are offered to enterprise clients, healthcare systems, universities, and government entities through direct engagement.

Product overview

Reed Burkett Lighting Design (RBLD) is a Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) offering professional lighting design services. The firm operates as a unified practice formed from the merger of Randy Burkett Lighting Design and Envision Lighting Design in 2022, with studios in St. Louis, MO (STL) and Chicago, IL (CHI). RBLD provides specialized lighting design services across multiple sectors including cultural, outdoor, commercial, higher education, healthcare, hospitality, retail, and institutional projects. The firm expanded further in 2025 with the addition of Aurora Lighting Design, strengthening its Chicago presence and broadening its service portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cultural and Museum Lighting Design Custom lighting design services for museums, galleries, and cultural institutions, addressing exhibition spaces, artifact-sensitive illumination, and integration with complex architectural intent. Delivered for clients including the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum and The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.
• Healthcare Facility Lighting Design Specialized lighting design for hospitals, medical centers, and virtual care facilities covering patient care areas, waiting rooms, and clinical spaces. Delivered for enterprise healthcare clients such as the Mercy Virtual Care Center.
• Corporate and Commercial Lighting Design Professional lighting design for office buildings, corporate campuses, and customer engagement facilities. Delivered for enterprise clients such as the Boeing Cortex Customer Engagement Center.
• Public Infrastructure and Memorial Lighting Design Lighting design services for urban parks, pedestrian bridges, national memorials, and public infrastructure projects delivered to government clients. Representative projects include The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Romare Bearden Park, and the Capital Cascades Crossing Bridge.
• Hospitality, Retail, and Gaming Lighting Design Lighting design for hotels, resorts, casinos, entertainment venues, and retail/mall environments focused on ambiance, customer experience, and brand differentiation. Representative projects include River City Casino and Lenox Square.

Named customers9 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Aurora Lighting DesigncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Aurora Lighting Design (ALD) joined RBLD team, combining STL and CHI studios. This collaboration broadens RBLD's service reach and strengthens their Chicago presence, bringing an expanded portfolio and shared commitment to inspiring, client-centered design.
• Rich FisherminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDesign collaboration partner on the Cradle of Aviation project, recognized through the 2025 IES Awards program.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Lighting Design Alliance: West Coast architectural lighting design firm offering comparable museum, civic, healthcare, and hospitality lighting design services, competing for similar marquee institutional clients.
• Available Light: Specialist architectural lighting design consultancy serving museums, performing arts centers, and cultural institutions with a comparable boutique, project-based services model.
• Focus Lighting: Architectural lighting design consultancy serving entertainment, hospitality, retail, and cultural venues — overlapping with RBLD's hospitality and retail lighting segments.
• Fisher Marantz Stone: New York-based architectural lighting design consultancy with a similarly elite project portfolio spanning museums, memorials, civic landmarks, and cultural institutions — a direct comparator to RBLD in both service offering and prestige-tier clientele.
• Tillotson Design Associates: Architectural lighting design firm with comparable museum, gallery, and cultural-institution portfolio, competing for similar high-end cultural and institutional commissions.
• Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design: NYC-based boutique lighting design consultancy specializing in museums, galleries, and cultural institutions — a direct peer in the cultural/museum vertical that is central to RBLD's identity.
• George Sexton Associates: Washington DC lighting design firm with a parallel focus on cultural, civic, and institutional projects, including museums and memorials — directly comparable to RBLD's DC and cultural work.
• HLB Lighting Design: Architectural lighting design firm with comparable national scope across cultural, healthcare, hospitality, and higher-education projects; competes with RBLD for the same enterprise and institutional RFPs.

Broad incumbents

• Arup Lighting: Global engineering consultancy with a dedicated architectural lighting design practice that competes with RBLD on large-scale cultural, healthcare, and infrastructure projects but offers lighting as part of a broader engineering services portfolio.
• Buro Happold: International engineering and advisory firm with a lighting design practice serving cultural, healthcare, and higher-education clients — a broader incumbent that competes with RBLD on integrated building projects.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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