Urban renewal has entered a tough period, with a large number of building facade lighting renovation projects. Intelligent wall washers and pixel lights have become the mainstream selection for engineering projects

With the comprehensive launch of the three-year campaign for urban renewal nationwide, old office buildings, historic block buildings, and urban landmark complexes across the country are entering a period of concentrated renovation for exterior lighting. In the first half of 2026, the number of bidding projects for exterior lighting in China increased by 21.5% year-on-year, and the total investment in projects exceeded 18 billion yuan, driving a surge in demand for products such as RGBW wall washers, curtain wall pixel point light sources, and narrow beam anti glare spotlights. Building exterior lighting has officially shifted from extensive floodlighting to a refined and customized intelligent lighting era. From the characteristics of the implemented projects, the current renovation projects have abandoned the excessive lighting mode of large-scale strong light paving in the early years. Housing and construction departments in various regions have successively issued detailed rules for night lighting control, clarified light pollution control indicators, and required new and renovated projects to use low glare, directional light distribution lamps, automatically reduce power by 30% -50% during non holiday periods at night. Energy conservation and aesthetics have become mandatory entry conditions for projects. In the renovation cases of old commercial districts in many parts of East and South China, the original halogen floodlights have been replaced with high-efficiency LED wall cleaning products. For different building facade materials such as stone, glass curtain walls, and antique blue bricks, the engineering party adopts customized beam angle optical solutions: the glass curtain wall uses ultra-thin embedded pixel dot matrix lights, and daytime lighting fixtures are almost invisible without damaging the original appearance of the building facade. At night, layered light and shadow changes are achieved through RGB dynamic programming; The antique historical building is paired with 2700K-3000K warm gold yellow narrow beam lighting fixtures to restore the texture details of the ancient building and avoid strong light damage to the exterior building materials. Intelligent integration has become a standard feature of the project, and over 70% of the renovation projects are equipped with DALI-2 bus intelligent control system. Relying on the cloud operation and maintenance platform, the entire building's lighting can be remotely controlled. It can switch between energy-saving mode on weekdays and dynamic light and shadow mode on holidays with one click, and the fault points are automatically uploaded to the background. The operation and maintenance response efficiency is improved by more than 60%, greatly reducing the cost of manual inspection in the later stage. Technological innovation continues to empower product upgrades, and the penetration rate of new quantum dot LED light sources in high-end landmark projects is rapidly increasing. The color rendering index has exceeded 98, accurately restoring the natural color of building stone and metal components; Biomimetic heat dissipation structure optimization solves the problem of light attenuation in high-temperature environments. The long-term outdoor use light attenuation rate is reduced by nearly 35% compared to traditional products. The IP68 waterproof and dustproof standard has become the basic threshold for outdoor facade lighting fixtures, suitable for differentiated climate environments such as rainy southern and cold northern regions. The differentiation of segmented markets is accelerating, with high-end landmark projects leaning towards customized non-standard lighting fixtures. The renovation of old buildings in small and medium-sized cities is mainly focused on standardized mass production of wall washers. The orders for cost-effective standardized products in the sinking county market are steadily increasing. Industry analysts point out that from 2026 to 2027, over 100000 old buildings in China will gradually complete facade renovation, and building facade lighting will continue to maintain a high business cycle. Products that combine energy efficiency, intelligence, and lightweight will continue to dominate the mainstream market.