WEBINAR | EPDs: A Users guide
What does an Environmental Product Declaration actually tell you about a luminaire? What does good look like, and how can they be used to compare products? Our panel of presenters walks us through the interpretation of EPD documentation, providing context to the results and how to implement these in practical specification.
Speakers:
- Max Robson, Environmental Metrics Manager
- Â Kael Gillam, Senior Associate, Hoare Lea
- Irene Mazzei, Sustainability Lead, Stoane Lighting.
Chair: Ray Molony, editor, Circular Lighting Report.
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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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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. -
Kael GillamSenior Associate Lighting DesignerKael, (she/they), is a Senior Associate Lighting Designer at Hoare Lea, an interdisciplinary firm of engineers and specialist designers. With an educational background in theatre and a professional career in Architectural Lighting that spans the commercial and hospitality, as well as arts and residential sectors, her designs focus on creating meaningful human-centric experiences and environments.
Alongside her role as a designer, Kael represents the Lighting team in the firm’s Net Zero Carbon network, which promotes education on and implementation of sustainable practices in the construction industry. Through this network, she is championing research in circularity and carbon footprint data modelling to create a better framework for the design and specification of Hoare Lea Lighting’s projects – to make these forward-thinking considerations a standard part of their projects.
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Dr Irene MazzeiSustainability Lead, Stoane LightingWith a Chemistry doctorate, a Materials Science academic background and a passion for sustainability, Irene shaped her career to focus on practical issues, tackling environmental challenges and finding tangible solutions.
Irene was introduced to Stoane Lighting through a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the company and Edinburgh Napier University where Irene added vital impact quantification to Stoane Lighting’s sustainability strategy. She has spent much of her time sharing her research with lighting designers, manufacturers, and practitioners across the wider built environment, focusing on the importance of harmonised environmental impact assessment strategies across the lighting industry.
As a natural follow-up from the Knowledge Transfer Partnership, in her new role as Stoane Lighting’s Sustainability Lead, she continues to interface with national and international initiatives with the aim of promoting consistent and harmonised practices for the environmental assessment of lighting. In addition to this, her Materials Science background will conveniently be merged with Life Cycle Assessment to advise the best solutions for sustainable design and manufacturing of lighting products.
