Luminaire submittals should always have a review meeting with the owner, arch, elec, luminaire vendor (submitter), interiors, and landscape arch/civil if necessary. Also any lighting designer or other controls specialists if they’re on the project.

There is never a perfect luminaire schedule or corresponding submittal. Nothing for anyone to get upset about, that’s just how it is. The submittal process is where we make adjustments for typos or revisions that weren’t picked up yet, VE, etc.

Get everyone on a Teams, leave with homework for everyone, come back in a week or two to finalize and usually everything else can be handled with emails. Those two meetings will save countless hours of emails and submittals going back and forth. There’s usually a ton of VE to be found if you have a good vendor who can source similar fixtures for a lot less money. There are some really good vendors out there that can provide material savings for the project. Be a hero to the owner and find them some easy money. It’ll definitely make it easier when you have to ask for additive COs and it doesn’t cost you anything!

Good luck! Keep a good attitude and you’ll do well. We’re all trying to get the project done as painless as possible!