Whether multi-family, commercial or industrial applications, Connexion's CX Power services excels at providing the optimal design solution for your switchgear and motor control needs. Our design-build solutions saves you time and allows you to move on to other facets of your project while our experienced team manages and designs the ideal power system solution that best suits your application.

From start-up support and construction scheduling to efficient close-out services, we provide the products, support and services that help ensure your project stays on task and on budget.

Where Innovation Meets Value

Our extensive local inventory of Square D products, is just the beginning of our formula for a successful project outcome. Our field-tested and innovative CX Power packaged solutions deliver true cost savings and an unparalleled level of organization to your power distribution installation.

Increased Efficiency

No more wasting valuable time on the jobsite with labor intensive panelboard assembly

Quality Guarantee

Assembled panelboards are certified & tested in accordance with Square D guidelines

Just in Time Delivery

Get your equipment when you want them, how you want them and stay organized with minimal waste packaging

Reduced Costs

Assembled, installation ready panelboards upon delivery for no added charge

More than just great products. It's great people too

Whether it's switchboards today or motor control centers tomorrow, you can rest assured that your quote will be on time and your project in good hands. Our extensively Square D trained, CX Power team will provide an optimal product/service solution at the right price, and at the time and place you need it.

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Aside from the sheer aesthetics of building design, no other aspect of a construction project produces the same visual impact as its lighting design.

A smart, well executed lighting design provides optimal energy savings, tenant satisfaction and an increase in property value.

Our design process takes into consideration:

• Type of activity for which lighting is to be provided
• The amount of light required for these activities
• The color of the light and its impact within the space
• The distribution of light within the space
• Energy efficiency and available incentives
• All budgetary considerations

Lighting for Automobile Dealerships

As the preferred Lighting Services Provider for The Chicago Automobile Trade Association (CATA), Connexion's Lighting solutions are specifically tuned for the needs of automobile dealerships to achieve the optimal balance between energy cost reduction and enhancing the customer experience.

Lighting for Industrial Facilities

No two facilities are alike and budgets come in many sizes. Connexion's approach to energy efficient lighting design encompasses the needs of the facility, its workers and the budgetary goals. This approach has enabled us to deliver optimal performance with a strong return on investment.

Lighting for Commercial Buildings

We understand that sustainable office buildings are more than a trend. They're an approach to building suited to the demands of its time. A Connexion commercial lighting upgrade can contribute to higher lease rates, greater tenant satisfaction and of course, outstanding energy savings.

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Our Advanced Lighting Design Services:

Quality, agile, and cost-effective advanced lighting design.

For all of the benefits of a properly devised lighting design, it also often has a significant impact on the budget and schedule of a project. For this reason, Connexion has partnered with LightHive, a leading Architectural Lighting Design Consultant for our more complex lighting designs requiring advanced photometric studies, controls integrations, and other unusual complexities.

LightHive brings solid technical acumen and creative design technique to architectural and landscape lighting projects. Their experience and expertise often provide the tipping point in the success of a complex project.

The creative team at LightHive has provided a wide scope of lighting design services to an even wider range of clientele types. Their design portfolio notably includes:

"Our passion is to create and deliver sustainable, efficient, and innovative lighting designs that are visually arresting. We believe in the power of light to transform spaces and affect humanity.As independent consultants, we are un-biased to manufacturers or suppliers of equipment. LightHive recommends the best lighting solution for the project."
- Jennifer Curtis, LightHive

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What We Do

We work with owners, architects, developers, interior designers, and engineers to determine design parameters. We listen to our clients wants and needs to help shape our lighting design. LightHive understands lighting, but more importantly, we understand that design doesn't happen in a bubble. We work across disciplines to ensure the lighting design is coordinated and integrated. We present and deliver design packages from conceptual ideas with sketches and renderings owners can understand, through construction details and specifications that contractors can build from. LightHive offers the following services: drawings, photometric calculations, cutsheets, mock-ups, fixture schedules, details, site visits, control programming, and final aim and focus. We believe in delivering lighting systems that you can count on.

Our Story

Jennifer Curtis founded LightHive in 2015 and partnered with Kaci DeLong in 2018. Together, we have 25 years of experience in the lighting industry. Our diverse backgrounds in interior design, architecture, engineering, and construction management bring compound views to each project to give our clients, and the end user, a seamless, integrated design experience. LightHive is certified as a Women?s Business Enterprise by the WBENC, the nation's largest third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women. LightHives' extensive project experience includes commercial office, hospitality, education, residential, multi-family, government, exterior facades, landscapes/site, amphitheaters and outdoor venues, community and civic, museums and exhibits, restorations, retail, and archi-tainment.

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JENNIFER CURTIS

Jennifer is an award-winning designer with her work featured in publications such as MondoArc, Interiors, and LD+A. She has guest lectured at the Illinois Institute of Technology and enjoys mentoring students, designers and entrepreneurs. Jennifer is active in the industries professional organizations and as a past regional coordinator for the International Association of Lighting Designers, she curated events to spark ideas and lively discussions. Jennifer?s background in architecture and interior design provide the foundation for her craft while her diverse range of interests and hobbies drive her creativity. Jennifer graduated from the Harrington Institute of Interior Design with a B.F.A in Interior Design, and completed an Associates in Architecture at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She has a graduate certificate in coaching and leadership from Accomplishment Coaching. Jennifer founded LightHive in 2015 and is Partner and Los Angeles office Design Director. She started LightHive on the belief that great lighting design is a transformative experience and intrinsically connects us to the built environment. Professional Affiliations:

International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) Midwest Regional Coordinator 2013-2015Relevant Experience: dbHMS - Senior Lighting Designer, 2013-2015Independent Lighting Consultant, 2010-2015Filament 33 - Lighting Designer, 2012-2015Schuler Shook - Lighting Designer, 2006-2013

KACI DELONG

Kaci is a LEED Accredited Professional, award-winning designer with a mind for engineering and passion for lighting design. Her background in architectural engineering and construction management lend a deeper level of understanding and expertise on the technical and construction side of the lighting design equation. She is a leader in her field, currently sitting on the Content Advisory Committee for Lightfair International and is responsible for the educational content and the conversations driving the industry at lighting design?s largest U.S. conference. Kaci graduated from the Milwaukee School of Engineering with a degree in Architectural Engineering and a Building Electrical Power Systems specialty and a second degree in Construction Management. Kaci?s passion for learning lighting design started over 15 years ago and will never end. She enjoys exploring her creativity through Lighting Design, and working with project teams to fill thoughtful well-designed space with light. Kaci joined LightHive in 2018 as a Partner and Chicago office Design Director. Her extensive experience includes interior and exterior lighting design for hospitality, education, residential, multifamily, exterior facades, landscapes, community, museums and exhibits, restorations, retail, site and archi-tainment. Professional Affiliations:

International Association of Lighting Designers Design (IALD)Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP)Relevant Experience dbHMS - Lighting Design Lead, 2017-2018Anne Kustner Lighting Design - Senior Lighting Designer, 2012-2017exp - Lighting Designer, 2005-2012

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Whether an owner, construction manager or developer, a lighting project designed by LightHive delivered with time-saving Connexion logistical services, provides aesthetic and functional uniqueness with unparalleled jobsite efficiencies and labor-saving value.

We appreciate that inventory management can be a time consuming drain on your resources.

From making decisions on what you need, negotiating pricing, to dealing with shipments and returns, there really is a simpler way! With CX-Crib Solutions, you can Increase staff productivity, by reducing the number of employee hours spent on inventory that can be reallocated for more productive activities - and spend your time where it's needed most!

No matter the size of your business, whether a small machine shop or a Fortune 500 company, effective inventory management can help eliminate errors and wasted expense and contribute to a healthier balance sheet through reallocating assets and freeing capital in unnecessary inventory.

Achieve immediate benefits from our CX-Crib Inventory Management Solutions:

• On-demand electrical, lighting and MRO supplies from best-in-class manufacturers
• Decrease time spent ordering
• Eliminate unnecessary inventory
• Eliminate the need for emergency orders
• Reduced inventory carrying costs

• Always have inventory on the items that you use most
• Maintain inventory levels that make sense for you
• Decrease time spent looking for product
• Maintain a clean and organized stockroom
• Reduce accounting time through smart consolidation
• 24-Hour emergency service

Connexion can help you streamline your material handling and replenishment systems and drive costs from your storeroom's operations. Our CX-Crib Inventory Solutions can be tailored to suit your needs, providing you with as little or as much support you require to achieve your operational and accounting objectives.

Fast track your efficiency gains with our quick and hassle-free setup:

• Together, we'll evaluate your inventory needs and the storage space required
• Inventory levels and pricing optimization based on historical data and our proprietary CX Forecasting Parameters
• Our team will then organize, setup, and barcode your stock keeping units - and maintain by the agreed upon frequency
• On-demand electrical, lighting and MRO supplies
• Lamp and ballast recycling services

Your perfect companion solution for our storeroom management program:

• Check stock, view pricing and place orders on-the-go 24/7!
• Instant access to all product specs and support downloads
• Explore the benefitsour The Connexion ES Mobile App or simply download our app below:

Our CX-Crib Solutions is just one component of our extensive service offering for our contractor, industrial, institutional and commercial clients.

Additional services include:

• Lighting Design
• Installation and Coordination
• Project Management
• Rebate & Utility Incentive Management

• Supply & Logistics
• Recycling
• Facility Safety Auditing
• Safety and Product Application Training

We believe that that professional installers needn't also be inventory managers

From secure, mobile storage solutions to automatic replenishment, your jobsite will always having the right products on-hand when and where you need them.

It's been documented that over 40% of total labor costs are tied up in material handling. Having the right consumable products organized and managed in a convenient location is critical to increasing on-site efficiency. When we manage the material on-site, we'll ensure you have the right amount of products where and when you need it Our On-Site Managed Platform can significantly improve efficiencies by shifting the materials management to us. This can result in lower transaction and handling costs.

Setup is easy!

Together, we'll evaluate your inventory needs and storage space to determine what level of solution you require. We'll then lock in your stock levels and pricing. Finally, We'll organize, setup, and barcode label the items that we will manage for you.

Maintenance and ordering made easy!

A Connexion IPS Professional will visit your jobsite at a predetermined interval appropriate for your needs. We'll then organize, count and provide a replenishment recommendation.We'll ship your replenish order in accordance with your needs and schedule a time for put-away if needed.

Connexion can help you streamline your material handling and replenishment systems and drive costs from your jobsite's operations.

Our CX-Onsite Inventory Solutions can be tailored to suit your needs, providing you with as little or as much support you require to achieve your operational and accounting objectives.

Fast track your efficiency gains with our quick and hassle-free setup:

• Together, we'll evaluate your inventory needs and the storage space required
• Inventory levels and pricing optimization based on historical data and our proprietary CX Forecasting Parameters
• Our team will then organize, setup, and barcode your stock keeping units - and maintain by the agreed upon frequency
• On-demand electrical, lighting and MRO supplies
• Lamp and ballast recycling services
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With the challenge of finding well trained and qualified labor, productivity is critically important.

Within our suite of IPS services, CX Prepprovides a number of outstanding, high-impact solutions to help make installers more productive. You can eliminate a significant amount of material handling on-site and by prefabricating your assemblies in our controlled environment, we help lower your total cost of install. From Product Assembly to Kitting, Material Handling Carts, Smart Labeling and Waste Free Packaging our prep services help keep installers installing.

CX Prep Benefits Include:

• Shorten your entire project timeline with prefabricated assemblies
• Minimize weather delays by eliminating on site assembly work
• Increase safety by limiting work in elevated areas
• Our assemblies are built to exact specifications ensuring consistency and quality
• Win more business by limiting labor-units during estimating

Keeping Installers Installing

From our smart kitting solutions, to our advanced pre-assemblies, our CX-Prep services are all about enabling more productivity and less time moving the same material from room to room. And the back-and-forth from staging areas to install locations to retrieve forgotten tools and materials are also significantly reduced, as most of your repetitive work has been covered by us.

In an era of Social Distancing

CX Prep can help decrease jobsite congestion by prefabricating portions of assemblies whereby allowing for fewer installers. Some preasseblies may also require only one installer, rather than multiple workers.

Our extensive Prep services create unique solutions that provide quantifiable value by reducing labor time, increasing efficiency, and keeping projects on-track.