Circular Lighting Report Interview with Simon Fisher

How to get a better TM66

Product designer and environmental expert Simon Fisher tells Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony about his plans for the next programme of Recolight’s workshops on luminaire design. ‘It’s going to be developed to be a far more focused workshop around environmental and circular metrics,’ says Fisher....

LEA metric

US govt funds sustainable lighting metric

A sustainable metric dubbed lighting application efficacy has been developed in a US Government-funded research project.  The new measure – designed to quantify lighting use in a building – takes into account how useful the delivered light is in a space. Dr Dorukalp Durmus, assistant professor at...

Philips StoreFlow

Signify unveils retail light made from 68% bio plastic

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 Mirage 3

Whitecroft publishes EPDs for Mirage 3

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,...

BEIS

LIA in crunch talks with Govt over 120lm/W rule

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...

office lighting

SLL office guide LG7 considers circular economy

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...

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