The interior and lighting of a co-working office project have been designed with the circular economy at its heart. Impact Hub Berlin is a community and working space in the German capital which has been created as an incubator for entrepreneurs and start-up businesses in the...
Acuity Brands has committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040. The company – one of the biggest lighting firms in the world – has signed the Climate Pledge and says its ambitious goal will benefit its employees and customers in the coming years. Atlanta-based Acuity...
Arfon Davies, UK Lighting Design Director at Arup, talks to Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony about the practice’s sustainability and circularity strategy. It extends to challenging clients about the fundamentals of the project itself and asking them to consider reuse and refurbishment as a starting...
Lighting company Skinflint is donating 20 per cent of its sale price to a range of charities under its Planet Pay Back programme. The Black Friday promotion gives the customer a fifth off the list price off one of its vintage lights alongside a promise that...
One of the first street lights to achieve an ‘excellent’ TM66 score for circularity has been unveiled by DW Windsor. The Pro S version of its long-established Kirium range scored above 2.5 in the assessment method, putting it in the top bracket. The luminaire was evaluated in...
UK-based start-up company Spared has unveiled a range of table lamps made from recycled plastic coat hangers, solvent-free gypsum and 3D-printed plastic made from sugarcane. The Xou lamp, its first lighting product, was created in collaboration with local lighting company houseof. The lamp is made from two...
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...