Lighting manufacturers and specifiers are being warned that time is running out to comment on the UK Government’s proposed minimum efficacy requirements for light sources. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is proposing a minimum energy performance standard (MEPS) for light sources and lamps...
The City of London is telling building owners and tenants in the Square Mile to reduce their lighting to cut unnecessary energy use and light pollution. According to newly published planning guidance, the City of London Corporation is to create special ‘brightness zones’ in which mandate...
Italian lighting design giant Flos has joined the trend towards minimalist luminaires with the launch of a range of adhesive-free table lamps which are easily demounted and recycled. The To-Tie light has been reduced to its minimal components, says its designer Guglielmo Poletti. It comprises three distinct...
A Tokyo-based product designer has unveiled a softly-glowing light which uses no electricity or battery. Instead, a specially treated ‘light-collecting’ acrylic surface absorbs ultra-violet light and redirects light to its edges. Nisshoku, meaning ‘eclipse’ in Japanese as its resembles a solar eclipse, is believed to be the...
Fagerhult has unveiled Kvisten, a luminaire whose reflectors are made from discarded television sets. It’s made from 77 per cent recycled or renewable materials, including a body is made entirely of pine plywood housing with Birch veneer. An innovative new louvre reduces plastic by 50 per cent...
Luminaire maker Trilux has adopted the reuse model of lighting circularity by retrofitting over 400 fluorescent office lights with LEDs to increase efficiency and reduce material waste. The upgrade took place at One London Wall, a prominent curved landmark designed by Foster & Partners with 2,500 square...
Signify’s latest LED replacement lamp for traditional high-pressure sodium lamps cuts energy use by some 60 per cent per luminaire. The True Force Core LED Road Lamp is a direct retrofit for the hugely popular SON-T lamp, which has been used to illuminate the UK’s roads...
Thomas Paterson, director of Lux Populi and one of North America’s lighting designers, tells Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony about a practice initiative to request clients use renewable energy for the its lighting schemes. ‘We don't think that we have the power to force clients...
Control gear giant Tridonic has been awarded the EcoVadis Silver Medal for the first time in recognition of its sustainability. This puts the firm in the top 25 per cent of more than 100,000 EcoVadis rated companies worldwide. With 68 points out of a 100, Tridonic was...
A leading architect says that better design is needed at the initial stages of a project to cut lighting energy. Toby Adam, director at Cardiff-based Gaunt Francis Architects, believes that the easiest and most cost-effective design solutions involve using the building itself to reduce energy needs,...