In this Circular Lighting Report video short, editor Ray Molony discusses lighting design and the challenges that practices face when taking on board all the implications of the circular economy. He talks to leading London-based lighting designer Marci Song of SEAM Design about how smaller...
Holophane Europe’s flagship street lighting luminaire, the V-Max, has achieved an ‘excellent’ score in a TM66 assessment for its compatibility with the circular economy. The new version of the V-Max was assessed under the Lighting Industry Association’s Circular Economy Assured Scheme and confirmed at the TM66 CEAM...
Trafford became one of the first local authorities in the UK to install solar hybrid streetlights after five columns were installed on Woodbridge Road in Urmston. Over 12 months, the new streetlights, which are supplied by Signify and installed by Amey, will use 75 per cent...
A lighting facade scheme on a pavilion in Switzerland consumes only as much electrical energy as it’s capable of producing. The Novartis Pavillon in Basel combines organic photovoltaics and LEDs to make it net zero, says its creators. It was designed by iart in collaboration with AMDL...
A worldwide elimination of mercury-containing lamps such as fluorescent moved closer after Africa threw its weight behind a ban. The Africa delegation of 39 countries to a global environmental treaty known as the Minamata Convention on Mercury has proposed an ambitious amendment that will effectively end...
Zumtobel’s first luminaire to be Cradle-to-Cradle certified is a new plug-and-play freestanding luminaire called Artelea. The company says that all aspects of the light have been designed with flexibility and circularity in mind, with the help of materials that are up to 80 per cent recyclable. It...
Some 20,000 luminaires have been reused in a major upgrade of the lighting at a professional training institute. Barcelona-based Lamp reconditioned the Fili luminaires which were installed at INACAP, National Institute of Professional Training, in Santiago, Chile. The company recovered the obsolete light sources – 54W and 28W T5...
The European Commission has launched a consultation on the Directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), including lighting equipment. The WEEE regulations were first adopted in 2002 to prevent or reduce its adverse impacts on the environment and human health. WEEE is one of the...
Signify, the industry’s biggest lighting company, has signed a deal to power its operations with wind power. The company teamed up with former owner Philips, brewer Heineken and Dutch chemical company Nobian to buy renewable energy from the huge Mutkalampi wind farm in Finland. The 10-year agreement...
UK lighting manufacturer LightGraphix has published TM65 and TM66 assessments and ratings for its 20 top-selling products. TM65, or Technical Memorandum 65, is a measure of the embedded carbon in a product devised by Cibse, while TM66 is a measure of a luminaire’s compatibility with the...