Light Projects unveils remanufacturing division
Light Projects Evolve has unveiled a specialist remanufacturing division to upgrade and reuse luminaires for commercial and educational clients.
The brand has formed a sister company, Light Projects Revolve Limited, which will be headed by former Silent Designs chief John Bowden.
Bowden, managing director of the new enterprise, is a highly experienced lighting remanufacturer with a host of successful projects, including the Build Back Better Award-winning Building Crafts College in east London.
In a statement, Light Projects Evolve said it was ‘committed to delivering the most efficient and sustainable lighting upgrades to our clients’.
Light Projects Evolve was been setup by Ellis Titheridge and Brendon Airey after becoming shareholders of the long-established brand Light Projects in November 2023.
Airey has a background in electrical safety, product specification, compliance, standards, and quality. He was previously senior consultant for Cloudfm, technical manager for LightSense, contracts manager for DSA Electrical, and ESOS Lead for Stroma.
Titheridge has a career in electrical and lighting controls, including stints at Simmtronic, Integral and Havenkey.
The company offers a five-year warranty on its standard projects.
Recent projects include St Edmunds College Chapel in Cambridge, where Light Projects Evolve installed RGBW feature lighting for the ceiling.
The firm also develops specialist products. Last year it unveiled a tubular LED fixture designed to replace T5 and T8 fluorescent lamps.
It addresses the problems normally associated with LED tubes.
Technically, they are luminaires tested to luminaire standards and featuring double electrical insulation but they are designed for in-situ upgrades of fluorescent lights.
The retrofit offering Revolve is based on its existing LEDbar range, and is tested to luminaire standards.
‘Inserting this unit inside any other luminaire is fully compliant, just as it would be if it was installed on the ceiling by itself,’ says Light Projects director Brendon Airey.
He says that the fluorescent lamp ban is driving facilities teams to upgrade their lighting to LED, but that want to avoid compliance issues.
The Revolve is rated at 10W with the equivalent light output as a 36W T8 fluorescent lamp and has a colour rendering of CRI 92. It can also be embedded with intelligence, such as LEDiMESH.
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