Signify has unveiled a retail luminaire with a housing made of more than 68% bio-based plastics. The Philips-branded StoreFlow was created for illuminating shopping aisles so that they are lit the brightest at eye level and have a smooth vertical gradient, while maintaining good illumination from...
Whitecroft Lighting has published environmental product declarations for its Mirage 3 Vitality Range. The EPDs – published on the construction specialist EPD platform One Click LCA – cover the C165, C110, C79 and SQ165 variants and are designed to provide the company’s clients and specifiers with what the manufacturer terms transparent,...
Industry representatives are meeting the UK government today to lobby for amendments to the forthcoming Ecodesign regulations. A delegation from the Lighting Industry Association is to discuss the concerns of the sector with the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero. The UK Government’s proposed minimum efficacy...
The Society of Light and Lighting’s latest Lighting Guide 07 (LG7) includes considerations of the circular economy for the first time. The guide – which updates the 2015 original – considers hybrid working, addressing uncertainty around how office space will be used in the future. With increased hybrid...
The headline speakers for next month’s conference on Remanufacturing Lighting have been named by the event’s organiser Recolight. The one-day gathering in London on Thursday 27 April 2023 will explore the opportunities and the challenges associated with reconditioning luminaires. Clients, both corporate and public sector, are starting...
A special lighting version of Cibse’s Technical Memorandum 65 is being planned, it has been revealed. The lighting edition of TM65 – a widely-accepted metric for measuring embodied carbon – is currently in draft stage and is undergoing peer review before it is released later this year. It...
Somerset’s towns and city are set to save around £160,000 a year by upgrading its high pressure sodium streetlights to LED. Around 20,000 conventional light points will be upgraded using Philips TrueForce LED lamp. The payback will be 18 months and energy consumption will be cut by...
The Holburne Museum in Bath – well known as Lady Danbury’s house in the Netflix series Bridgerton – has reused and upgraded over 300 projector lights. The halogen based lighting was based on MR7 spotlights from Stoane Lighting and were designed for use with 50W MR16 lamps. To...
US lighting design practice Lam Partners has long pioneered the use of digital tools to deliver sophisticated lit environments. Those same tools can be used to optimise sustainability, says senior associate Dan Weissman. In this special video short, he tells Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony...
Scottish lighting firm Stoane Lighting has announced that it’s remanufacturing its MR7 spotlight which was first produced in 1999. The luminaire – which originally housed a 12V MR16 halogen lamp –had a robustness, lockability and on board potentiometer which saw it become popular in museum and...