Designplan Lighting says it has managed to reduced its usage of plastic packaging since 2017 by 77 per cent. The UK-based firm – part of the Fagerhult Group – achieved this through what it terms ‘smart box design’. Introducing crush zones removes the need for plastic bumpers,...
A SLEW of circular lighting initiatives and projects have been recognised in the latest lighting category of the Build Back Better Awards. Speirs Major’s lighting design for the Our Time on Earth exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London was awarded both a Build Back Better...
A PLASTIC light pendant version of Stoane Lighting’s ZTA50 has achieved a TM66 environmental rating of 2.6, putting it in the excellent category. The company says the pendant blends excellent light quality, circularity and flexibility whilst repurposing waste acrylic. It functions as a decorative pendant, some capturing...
BUILDING owners and managers have been warned to prepare for the forthcoming ban on the most popular and ubiquitous types of fluorescent lamp. Trade association LightingEurope says those responsible for lighting –including facility and maintenance managers, purchasing managers, contractors and retailers – need to start preparing now...
A Strange Form (Xenomorph) from design house Matt Black is a concept to create the most circular downlight possible. The idea – which has just won a prestigious Build Back Better Awards GOLD – originated in a search for singularity, says Murray Ward, founder of Matt...
THE LATEST edition of the PEP Ecopassport rules governing lighting and electrical products has been unveiled. Edition 4 of the Product Category Rules (PCR) covering electrical and electronic equipment has been published in Paris this month. Backed by LightingEurope and used by major brands such as iGuzzini,...
The UK and Ireland’s largest lighting manufacturer has called for standardisation and regulation in the industry to manage the transition to a circular economy. Steve Meadows, services and operations director at Signify UKI, said the company was increasingly being asked to supply environmental metrics. "What will become...
iGuzzini has become one of the first major lighting manufacturers to publish Product Environmental Profile (PEP) ecopassports of its products. The Italian architectural luminaire maker has started uploading PEP ecopassports to its website. The PEP ecopassport is an environmental declaration based on an electrical product’s life cycle...
DOWNLIGHT manufacturer Phos has become B-Corp accredited, it has announced. The Hertfordshire based company says the move is the logical next step for a company that has put sustainability at the heart of its strategy in recent years. B Corp measures a company’s entire social and environmental...
THE LIGHTING industry should focus on the use of a luminaire because that is the dominant phase in its environmental impact, says a study by Ledvance. Much of the sector interest in recent years has been in the design, manufacture and management of a light fitting’s...