A private school in North Yorkshire has reused and reconditioned the luminaires in its auditorium rather than replacing them. Yarm School, near Middlesborough, had the fluorescent-based fittings upgraded to LED by Durham-based Artech Lighting. The latter has a specialist remanufacturing service, dubbed ‘Revive’. The Artech team designed, developed,...
"Lighting designers need to get away from seeing a pretty light, making sure the photometrics work, putting it in the space, getting a good picture and calling it job done." "We need to look more deeply at where products come from, where they're going, who's making...
Glamox has unveiled a range of luminaires designed to reduce the risk of harm to migratory birds. The lights – which feature blue-green wavelengths known to be less attractive to birds – are aimed at applications on wind turbines and oil and gas rigs. Offshore wind turbines pose...
The installation of two solar-powered exterior lights at a railway crossing in Cambridgeshire has eliminated the need for a copper grid connection of 2 kilometres. Up to now Rampton Crossing, north of Cambridge, has lacked adequate lighting and was assessed as posing a ‘significant risk’ of...
The luminaires at Brent Cross Shopping Centre in north London have been remanufactured rather than replaced. Trojan Lighting retrofitting the lights, upgrading them from fluorescent to LED and adding wireless controls in the process. The project, commissioned by Hammerson, encompassed front-of-house and back-of-house areas, car parks, external...
NVC Lighting has announced that it has created 1,500 Environmental Product Declarations for its luminaires. The milestone is part of a sustainability journey for the firm. In 2022, NVC Lighting announced that it has become carbon neutral for its UK operations. It achieved this by offsetting...
Bakery chain Gail’s latest outlet in Southwark, south London features spotlights whose housing is 3D printed from biopolymer material. The store – housed in a former fire station – is seen as something of a ‘proof of concept’ store. It features a number of sustainability initiatives to...
Manufacturers of luminaires should publish ‘like for like’ data that can be easily compared, say the trade body LightingEurope. Specifically, the organisation wants brands to state their product’s initial performance, lumen maintenance factor at various useful life stages and the expected control gear failure rate. Observers say...
Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony talks to Spark and Bell founder Emer Gillespie about the company, its sustainability ethos and its membership of B Corp. https://vimeo.com/1058186684?share=copy#t=0 ...
Lighting and electrical equipment maker Schneider Electric has been named the World’s Most Sustainable Corporation 2025 by Corporate Knights and is the only company to rank first in the Global 100 twice. Schneider Electric previously topped the annual list of the most sustainable publicly listed companies...