WEBINAR | Life Cycle Assessments for lighting products
Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) are set to be become increasingly important for lighting brands as more specifiers and clients demand environmental data for luminaires and other equipment.
In this special webinar, Max Robson, Environmental Metrics and Training Manager at Recolight explores:
- What is meant by LCA and EPD, highlighting their importance in sustainable construction.
- The process of undertaking an EPD, why lighting manufacturers should undertake them and how the data can ultimately be used in building LCAs.
- He will talk through how the Recolight LCA Service can help lighting manufacturers in their EPD journey.
LCA software is an important tool when it comes to undertaking an EPD. One Click LCA is the world leading LCA and EPD platform for construction and manufacturing
Martin McGrenaghan of One Click LCA will give an overview of the tools One Click LCA have to offer, particularly how their luminaire specific tool is a simple, fast and scalable.
John Bullock of the Light Review will present a Lighting Designer perspective of the value of LCAs, looking at:
- Client expectations – assuming a positive attitude to environmental/climate demands
- The lighting industry’s (manufacturers) ability (technical and financial) to provide meaningful data to support the project
- Provide an ethical overview, putting the overall sustainability crisis on the table
- And reminding all those concerned that we’re all playing walk-on parts in a major drama that, sadly, isn’t a drama – its the real deal.
We round up the webinar with a panel discussion and Q & A, joined by Nigel Harvey, and chaired by Ray Molony
FREE to join | Registration required
Slides will be shared with all who register, and a recording posted
Panelists
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Ray MolonyHead of content for Build Back Better AwardAn award-winning technical journalist and a highly experienced event organiser, chairperson, webinar host and public speaker.
Ray Molony is the editor of the Circular Lighting Report, a Recolight initiative to inform the market of developments in sustainability in the industry. He’s also head of content at the Build Back Better Awards, an initiative to celebrate and reward environmental leadership, innovation, creativity and social purpose in the built environment, and the editor of Designing Lighting Global, a magazine for designers. He was co-founder of Lux magazine and the LuxLive exhibition. He’s also the award-winning author of the acclaimed book, Light: Re-Interpreting Architecture (Rotovision, 2014) which was translated into many languages. He studied engineering at Dublin City University.
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John BullockPublisher and editor at The Light ReviewJohn trained to become an electrical engineer (1970-1975) but fell in love with the world of lighting manufacture (1979 – 1984). Circumstances led me him lighting design in 1984 and the broad and narrow ways of a professional career led him eventually to Dorset (1999-present) and the establishment of jb-ld back in 1998 – or thereabouts . . . a decent amount of time ago, anyway.
Lighting design work continues to be a passion. John has built a reputation as the foremost lighting designer in Dorset, working on some fine residential projects designed by top quality, imaginative, architects. John came to residential lighting quite late, as his lighting studio in London focused specifically on commercial projects. He loves the amount of detail that residential projects bring with them. These building sites eventually turn into someone’s home and the conversations round the kitchen table that lead to that final hand-over are a joy. No, not all the time, that would be asking too much!
John is enjoying a parallel career as a lighting commentator, working for one of the major UK lighting magazines (2016-2018). That came to its inevitable end at the beginning of 2019, but the experience of doing that kind of work has rubbed off on him and he decided to carry on with commentary and campaigning for Good Lighting via The Light Review, an on-line magazine that focuses on what it takes to create the kind of lighting scheme that everyone can be proud of – not a situation that is always the case, He sorry to say, given the way that many projects are allowed to fail as a consequence of poor planning and execution. -
Max Robson PhDEnvironmental Metrics and Training ManagerMax joined Recolight in June 2024 to head up Recolight’s LCA and EPD service.
Max has previously worked for as a Science and Research Consultant for ERM: Environmental Resources Management in the Product Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs team, based in the UK.
Here he undertook projects for private and public companies regarding the sustainability of products and services. Including carbon impact assessment of products and technologies/services.
Max was awarded a PhD in Chemistry in 2024 from the University of Bath. He worked on the fabrication of thin film semiconducting metal chalcogenides, primarily using chemical vapour deposition techniques. -
Martin McGrenaghanBsc(Hons) Business Development Consultant @One Click LCAWith a BSc Hons degree in Construction Engineering & Management, Martin’s initial career experience was gained on large scheme civil engineering projects. Spanning 14 years Martin has proven his diverse, technical and commercial ability, having progressed into Business Development & Commercial Sales within the HVAC, Steam Engineering, Process Purification and now the Technology and Carbon Reduction sector.
Working for SMEs to multibillion global companies, Martin understands the customer and operational requirements across various levels. Martins’ key strengths and experience is growing business revenue, obtaining and developing new customers, delivering great working relationships and a first class customer focus.
Throughout his career Martin has worked within a vast range of industry sectors to drive solutions and customer satisfaction including Construction, Manufacturing, Technology, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Retail. With a satisfied customer base that includes the NHS, Moy Park, Kerry Foods, Pfizer, MSD, BD, Bulmer’s, Danone, Diageo, Glanbia and many more, providing technical product solutions, engineered systems, thermal energy solutions and audit /site contract services to drive process performance improvement and increased commercial efficiencies.
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