Estonian start-up Myceen, which makes products from mushrooms, has unveiled its first luminaire. The B-Wise pendant is manufactured from mycelium, the vegetative part of fungi, whose growth has been arrested. The material is said to be ‘carbon negative’ as it can lock up the carbon in...
Delta Light has teamed up with Dutch architecture firm MVRDV to create a range of striking luminaires made from waste offcuts of aluminium profiles. The High Profile series is a range of light fittings which ‘finds both opportunity and beauty in residual elements that would normally be cast...
The British Council for Offices is urging building owners and property developers to scrap the practice of Cat A fit-outs, which can see unused luminaires end up as waste. The organisation is recommending that it is eliminated from office fit out unless specified by the incoming...
In this special Circular Lighting Report video short, editor Ray Molony talks to sustainable lighting design pioneer Kevan Shaw, founder of EFLA Kevan Shaw Lighting Design. He’s been encouraging his clients to reuse fittings since 2011, when luminaires were refurbished rather than replaced at Tanfield in...
IN WHAT’S believed to be an industry first, an exhibitor at a lighting industry trade show is asking visitors if they’d like to take parts of its stand home at the end of the event. California-based Vode Lighting is demonstrating its luminaires at the Light 22...
THE GROWTH of so-called Cat A+ office fit-outs is leading to a reduction in the number of newly-installed luminaires which end up in waste streams, say insiders. Cat A+ fit-outs are designed to be a middle-ground between basic Cat A fit-outs, often designed simply to lease...
FAGERHULT has reformulated its popular Discovery luminaire, replacing much of its traditional plastics with materials based on renewable biological oils from pine trees and industrial frying. The Discovery Evo features reduced fossil raw material in the production of polycarbonate plastic. Instead, an ISCC-certified material based on...
A TEAM of scientists in Belgium is trying to create high quality bio plastics for the lighting industry. Researchers at the University of Paderborn, the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, and the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials have teamed up to develop optical technologies that are...
SIGNIFY has won a design award for its range of lamps 3D printed from discarded fishing nets. The ‘Coastal Breeze’ collection of sustainable pendant luminaires has won a Gold IDEA 2022 design award. Up to 46 per cent of ocean plastic consists of fishing nets, lines and...
A LEADING insurance company has reused 1,400 luminaires in a refurbishment at its City of London headquarters. Standing 127m and 30 storeys tall, 51 Lime Street, also known as the Willis Building, is one of the most distinctive building on the capital’s skyline. It was the first...