A guidance document developed by Dark Source Lighting Design Studio and Friends of the Lake District to provide technical lighting guidance has been published. The technical advice note is designed to conserve and enhance the Dark Skies across Cumbria. Loaded with striking illustrations and graphics, the publication...
LEDFlex has become latest lighting manufacturer to announce that it is supply TM66 data for its product ranges. The Winchester-based company will post downloadable TM66 reports for each product on its website in the coming weeks. The firm says the move is designed to ‘empower our community...
A major stage in the phase out of fluorescent light sources got under this week as the T8 lamp was banned in both the EU and Great Britain. Additionally, the T5 lamp and long life compact fluorescent lamps with non-integrated gear are banned in the EU...
Lighting is a ‘neglected’ pollutant which needs regulation, says a report from the House of Lords. It contributes to a range of adverse health outcomes including heart disease and premature death, yet light is poorly understood and poorly regulated and the Government’s approach is ‘confused’. Despite the...
Holophane Europe’s flagship warehouse lighting luminaire, the PrismPack, has achieved an ‘excellent’ score in a TM66 assessment for its compatibility with the circular economy. The new version of the Prismpack was assessed under the Lighting Industry Association’s Circular Economy Assured Scheme and confirmed at the TM66 CEAM...
China is exploring stringent mandatory minimum energy performance standards, or MEPS, for its lighting industry. As the country is a major exporter of LED chips, modules and luminaires, such a move would have a massive impact globally. The China National Institute for Standardisation (CNIS) is said to...
The London Centre, the new home for New London Architecture (NLA), has opened and features an LED lighting system reusing the original fluorescent fittings. The project – part of FUTURE Designs’ carbon careful™ initiative – involved repurposing the light fixtures it previously supplied a decade previously and...
A French start-up has just completed the refurbishment of 1,000 luminaires in its first major project. Proclus, based just outside Paris, recovered the Philips Coreline HighBay and GentleSpace fittings from Signify’s distribution centre in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges in the Paris suburbs. The lights were removed with the technical support...
A range of street and urban lights made from post-consumer plastic waste has been unveiled by an Italian company. With wall thicknesses greater than 5mm, Lorelux luminaires are ultra-resistant to impact and scratch and solve the problem of long term corrosion in a sustainable way using...
The manufacturers representative organisation LightingEurope has criticised the vote of the European Parliament vote on the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) as a ‘missed opportunity’. The body said that the plenary vote was a missed opportunity to correct some of the shortcomings in the original...