Some 350 luminaires removed from a London office fit-out have been reused in an exemplar sustainable building for Cambridge University. BDP upgraded and reused the lights in the transformation of a 1930s telephone exchange into the £12 million Entopia Building, a new headquarters for the Cambridge...
London-based lighting brand Tala has become a B Corporation. The company – known for its distinctive oversized lamps – scored 89.7 in its first B Impact assessment, exceeding the industry certified average of 87.1 and becoming only the sixth UK-based lighting company to join the non-profit network. The company...
A Norman Foster-designed office in Budapest has set a new standard for large premium workplaces with an installed lighting load of just 3W per square metre. The 27-storey building for the oil and gas company MOL Group uses linear LED lighting to deliver a general illumination...
Experts in the remanufacturing and reconditioning of luminaires are set to gather in London next week for the industry’s first dedicated event on the topic. Organised by the Recolight, the waste compliance body and authority on sustainability in lighting, the one-day conference will explore the opportunities...
A range of upmarket chandeliers aimed at top hotels and restaurants are being made from the laughing gas canisters discarded by teenagers. London firm Diplomat Design collects the distinctive nitrous oxide (N2O) cylinders from the streets of the capital and uses them to create luminaires with...
Signify’s 3D printing division has an announced a collaboration with the prominent textile designer Aleksandra Gaca. The designer has created a distinctive version of the firm’s ‘Coastal Breeze’ collection of sustainable pendant luminaires which use so-called ocean plastic manufactured from waste rescued from the sea The range...
Glamox has announced that it has started to switch from using virgin aluminium to recycled aluminium in its luminaires as standard. The company has already made the switch for one of its most popular luminaires and is preparing to extend it to other families. ‘We’ve already implemented...
Hertfordshire-based commercial lighting firm Synergy Creativ has become the latest UK firm to launch a dedicated reconditioned lighting service. Dubbed ‘Revitalite’, the division aims to provide cost-effective and environmentally friendly luminaires to customers in the commercial, industrial, and large-scale residential sectors. Revitalite offers remanufactured lighting fixtures which...
Accelerating investment in energy efficiency is essential if the UK’s commercial property sector is to meet the strengthened Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) that came into force this month, says lighting manufacturer Tamlite Lighting. Introduced eight years ago, the MEES legislation stated that property owners or...
The Society of Light and Lighting is planning a special version of the circular lighting measure TM66 for facility managers. TM66 CEAM Manage will guide those responsible for lighting in buildings is how to keep their installations sustainable. The metric complements TM66’s other two approaches, CEAM Make, ...