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...
In a Circular Lighting Report video short, editor Ray Molony discusses the reuse of luminaires with leading lighting designer Maida Hot, managing director of London-based practice Equation. ‘Some clients are really hesitant on what these refurbished luminaires will be like and whether they will be good...
A total of 836 luminaires were reused in a major lighting upgrade at Barcelona’s famous Encants flea market. Local firm Lamp Lighting remanufactured the lights, which it originally supplied in 2012. The fittings were a mixture of its Shot and Step models, which used fluorescent lamps. The company...
Remanufactured bulkheads with a range of commercial and environmental benefits are currently being marketed by Scottish firm EGG Lighting. The pre-used luminaires – which have been upgraded from fluorescent to LED – have been assessed for their circularity under Cibse’s TM66 metric and have achieved an...
A special lighting version of Cibse’s Technical Memorandum 65 has been released. The lighting edition of TM65 – a widely-accepted metric for measuring embodied carbon – includse new materials, special definitions and acronyms from the lighting sector and product case studies from 18 luminaire manufacturers. CIBSE TM65.2 ‘Embodied...
Shoplight has unveiled a spotlight with a bioplastic housing. The Peterborough-based retail lighting specialist says that using plant-based polymers for the Nort rather than traditional aluminium housing allows it to reduce carbon emissions during manufacture by up to 95 per cent. Surplus plastic from the production of...
Italian lighting brand Artemide is using certified wood waste from the bottling industry to create its latest pendant. ALE.01 (Adaptive Lighting Experience) is a suspension lamp, 30 per cent of whose shell is made of a biocomposite material containing natural wood fibres, mixed with a base...