An upgrade project in the City of London using remanufactured luminaires has cut energy use by 55 per cent. Revitalite, sister firm to Hertfordshire-based commercial lighting firm Synergy Creativ, replaced fluorescent lamps and gear with LED modules at 71 Fenchurch Street, a building owned by Savills. The...
The Lighting Education Trust has unveiled its updated diploma syllabus for 2023 which will include new content on the circular economy, embodied carbon in luminaires and sustainable luminaire design. The new material – which also includes modules on human centered lighting, inclusive design, dark sky strategies...
The City of London Corporation Planning and Transportation Committee has agreed to adopt a ground-breaking initiative that will require developers to submit detailed plans to minimise light pollution at the early stages of their planning applications. The Lighting Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) will provide guidance for...
Trilux has unveiled the E-Line NEXT LED, a luminaire that's 80 per cent recyclable. The linear LED luminaire – which has already been nominated for a Build Back Better Award for its circularity and sustainability credentials – features an efficacy of up to 190 lm/W and life...
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...