Some 147 of the world’s largest economies have agreed an effective ban on fluorescent lamps by 2027. The decision, taken in Switzerland at the Minamata Convention on Mercury –will effectively putting an end to the fluorescent lighting industry, with the limited exception of special uses like...
Moving to circularity is one of the toughest tests that the lighting design industry is facing, says a leading lighting designer. Paul Nulty, founder of global lighting design practice Nulty, says the transition ‘feels like an almighty knot to unpick’. Writing in Designing Lighting Global magazine, he...
All 14,000 luminaires supplied for the interior of the new Bramley-Moore stadium for Everton Football Club on Liverpool Docks will have replaceable parts, it has been confirmed. Whitecroft Lighting – which has just secured the prestigious contract – says that the luminaires and lighting control systems on the...
A UK lighting company has unveiled a downlight that’s been printed from plant-based polymers. Peterborough-based retail lighting specialist Shop Light says the Colt Bio is a luminaire based on circular economy principles. Made in the UK, the Colt Bio is a recessed fixed downlight made from sustainable...
A luminaire designed to minimise waste has got an ‘excellent’ rating in the circularity metric TM66. Thorlux Lighting’s SkyCore family of luminaires achieved a score of 2.5 in Cibse’s TM66 Circular Economy Assessment Method (CEAM). During the development of the SkyCore range, Thorlux engineers were tasked with dramatically reducing waste...
Trilux has teamed with a manufacturer of reusable wooden buildings in a deal that will see its SO-Tube LED luminaire included included in the structures. The company is collaborating with with a Berlin-based start-up called Urban Beta which makes environmentally responsible buildings using recyclable wooden modules. Their...
An office luminaire has become the first Zumtobel product to receive the latest version of the Cradle to Cradle certification. The Artelea free-standing unit is made from up to 80 per cent recyclable materials. It was designed to Zumtobel's Circular Design Rules and is one of the...
Some 600 Fagerhult spotlights recovered from the renovation of a Debenhams department store in Manchester have gone on sale. The lights are part of a growing trend for light fittings to removed and reconditioned rather than go to a recycler. EGG Lighting, based in Glasgow, has...
Three prototype luminaires with strong sustainable credentials have been awarded a share of £1.65 million in the US Government’s L Prize. Signify, Lightly and Grid Interactive Efficient Building Alliance all shared the spoils with, respectively, a 3D printed light, an office luminaire made of wood, wool...
Jonathan Rush, director of Hoare Lea, talks to Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony about his practice’s need for data from lighting brands. Right now we'd take an EPD, we’d take a PEP, we’d take a TM65 or TM65.2. "We want to just keep moving manufacturers in...