The United Lighting Controls Forum (ULCF) helps the lighting controls industry work from a shared foundation. By standardizing knowledge and raising professional competency across designers, manufacturers, and installers, ULCF reduces project friction and ensures that products are specified, installed, and perform as intended. The result is clearer communication, better outcomes in the field, and faster realization of product value at scale.

Lighting controls shouldn’t be the most complicated part of a great lighting system.

Across the industry, manufacturers, designers, and installers work in parallel silos. The result is misaligned expectations, inconsistent execution, and unnecessary friction that slows projects, strains budgets, and obscures the true value of well-designed products.

The United Lighting Controls Forum (ULCF) exists to change the industry for the better.

ULCF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a shared foundation for how the lighting controls industry communicates, designs, and delivers projects. By standardizing knowledge and raising professional competency across the entire ecosystem.

ULCF helps ensure that what manufacturers build is what gets specified, installed, and commissioned.

Our approach is built on four integrated pillars: education, community, resources, and support. At the center is practical, field-tested training delivered by industry veterans, giving all stakeholders a common language and a realistic understanding of system capabilities. That shared knowledge fuels collaboration between manufacturers, specifiers, distributors, installers, and end users by replacing guesswork with alignment.

For manufacturers, this means clearer specifications, fewer field conflicts, faster adoption of product capabilities, and systems that perform as intended from day one. It means your products are understood, applied correctly, and fully realized in the built environment.

ULCF serves as the bridge between design intent, product capability, and real-world installation enabling lighting controls to move beyond friction and toward their full potential as a driver of performance, sustainability, health, and comfort.

Clarity is the catalyst. ULCF helps the industry achieve it.