Shoplight has unveiled a spotlight with a bioplastic housing. The Peterborough-based retail lighting specialist says that using plant-based polymers for the Nort rather than traditional aluminium housing allows it to reduce carbon emissions during manufacture by up to 95 per cent. Surplus plastic from the production of...
Italian lighting brand Artemide is using certified wood waste from the bottling industry to create its latest pendant. ALE.01 (Adaptive Lighting Experience) is a suspension lamp, 30 per cent of whose shell is made of a biocomposite material containing natural wood fibres, mixed with a base...
An upgrade project in the City of London using remanufactured luminaires has cut energy use by 55 per cent. Revitalite, sister firm to Hertfordshire-based commercial lighting firm Synergy Creativ, replaced fluorescent lamps and gear with LED modules at 71 Fenchurch Street, a building owned by Savills. The...
The Lighting Education Trust has unveiled its updated diploma syllabus for 2023 which will include new content on the circular economy, embodied carbon in luminaires and sustainable luminaire design. The new material – which also includes modules on human centered lighting, inclusive design, dark sky strategies...
The City of London Corporation Planning and Transportation Committee has agreed to adopt a ground-breaking initiative that will require developers to submit detailed plans to minimise light pollution at the early stages of their planning applications. The Lighting Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) will provide guidance for...
Trilux has unveiled the E-Line NEXT LED, a luminaire that's 80 per cent recyclable. The linear LED luminaire – which has already been nominated for a Build Back Better Award for its circularity and sustainability credentials – features an efficacy of up to 190 lm/W and life...
In this Circular Lighting Report video short, editor Ray Molony discusses lighting design and the challenges that practices face when taking on board all the implications of the circular economy. He talks to leading London-based lighting designer Marci Song of SEAM Design about how smaller...
Holophane Europe’s flagship street lighting luminaire, the V-Max, has achieved an ‘excellent’ score in a TM66 assessment for its compatibility with the circular economy. The new version of the V-Max was assessed under the Lighting Industry Association’s Circular Economy Assured Scheme and confirmed at the TM66 CEAM...
Trafford became one of the first local authorities in the UK to install solar hybrid streetlights after five columns were installed on Woodbridge Road in Urmston. Over 12 months, the new streetlights, which are supplied by Signify and installed by Amey, will use 75 per cent...
A lighting facade scheme on a pavilion in Switzerland consumes only as much electrical energy as it’s capable of producing. The Novartis Pavillon in Basel combines organic photovoltaics and LEDs to make it net zero, says its creators. It was designed by iart in collaboration with AMDL...