Ways to Add Lighting into PermaTrak Concrete Boardwalks

Posted: September 22, 2023

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Landscape architects and engineers often ask, "Can I add lighting to the boardwalks?”

Yes! The right lighting can offer both beauty and safety to your concrete boardwalk, ensuring that your pathways shine in both form and function.

Here are some different project examples with lighting incorporated into the boardwalks:

 

Electrical conduits through bottom of the boardwalk treads

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Hub rtp electrical conduits through boardwalk treads

In this project example from Hub RTP in Durham, North Carolina, an electrical conduit is attached alongside the side of the beam. The conduit then goes up through the bottom of a preformed hole in the boardwalk treads. For this project, the electrical wires run the full length of the boardwalk, and lighting is attached to the railings.

 

Light pole attached to the boardwalk treads

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Hickory Riverfront project in Hickory, North Carolina, extended tread with attached light pole
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Hickory Riverfront project in Hickory, North Carolina, extended tread with attached light pole
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Hickory Riverfront project in Hickory, North Carolina, extended treads for timed gate functionality
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Hickory Riverfront project in Hickory, North Carolina, extended treads for electrical transformer
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Lafayette College project in Easton, Pennsylvania, extended tread with light pole attached
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Lafayette College project in Easton, Pennsylvania, extended tread with light pole attached

 

For these projects, a light pole is attached to the actual boardwalk treads. You can see that the treads with the light poles were designed as having a longer width to allow for the light pole to fall outside the railing. Electrical boxes also sit on treads that are wider than other treads on the boardwalk.

 

Light posts attached to boardwalk treads

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In this Keowee Key Boardwalk in Keowee, South Carolina, designers chose to utilize smaller light posts lined down the length of the boardwalk.

 

Custom Design for Boardwalk Lighting

Looking for other boardwalk lighting options customized for your project?

PermaTrak provides you and your team engineering support with an in-house team of Professional Engineers, registered in 30+ states. We provide conceptual layout drawings and signed and sealed construction drawings without charging any fees. Providing engineering support and value to a project design team is a core tenet of our business model.

For more information, check out our article "Boardwalk Design: Engineering Fees for Construction Documents?"

 

Topics: Boardwalk Design, Boardwalk Railings