Engineering and lighting design consultancy Aecom has selected One Click LCA’s sustainability platform to help it decarbonise its projects. The collaboration enhances Aecom’s strategy that aims to deliver a 50% per cent carbon reduction on major client projects. The practice’s engineers will use One Click LCA’s...
The NHS Trust responsible for St Thomas’ Hospital in London has reused and upgraded luminaires on the site. Trojan Lighting reconditioned ageing fluorescent lights in situ, installing a LED gear tray with a MyMesh intelligent node. The engineer responsible for the project, engineering site lead David Crane,...
Recolight has unveiled an environmental data service for lighting manufacturers to help them create Life Cycle Assessments and Environmental Product Declarations for their luminaires. The organisation has teamed up with global software platform One Click LCA to streamline the process of measuring a light fitting’s carbon...
Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony talks to Ridge partner Andrew Bissell about environmental reporting for Breeam, LEED, Well and Nabers certification, as well as the role of the assessors in approving innovative designs. Bissell also explains how EPDs can be used by designers as a way...
Ten US states have taken action to move lighting markets to LED lightbulbs. Policymakers from California, Colorado, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington – have passed ‘clean lighting bills’, advancing their transition to more efficient LED technology. Together, the ten states will...
Trojan Lighting has announced that it has introduced plastic-free packaging across its entire product range. The St Helens-based company – a specialist in energy saving and intelligent lighting and remanufacturing for the commercial, retail and public sectors – has instead adopted paper packaging to house its luminaires. ‘This...
A luminaire made from used vapes from the streets of London has been created by a designer fed up with finding the discarded electronic cigarettes in his neighbourhood. The ELFBAR vapes are disassembled, cleaned and reassembled by Matthew Kavanagh of Diplomat Design before incorporation in a...
American lighting manufacturer Lightly has followed up its acclaimed Butterfly luminaire with another ultra carbon conscious light, the Glow Direct. This suspended fixture is made primarily from wood and wool. Its housing and end caps contain no metal, plastic, or glass and are instead made from sustainably-harvested...
The environmental data specialist One Click LCA has announced that it has updated its software to comply with the latest standards from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. It says its platform will now enable design professionals to align with the new RICS whole-life carbon assessment professional...
A school in the English West Midlands has achieved lighting power efficiency of 97 per cent by using a direct-current Power-over-Ethernet connection for its lighting. Whitecroft Lighting collaborated with technology specialists Prolojik at the West Coventry Academy, one of the first Net Zero Carbon (NZC) schools...