The Low Energy Transformation Initiative has published a specification and procurement guide to support lighting and other designers and contractors ‘who are facing the difficult task of trying to reduce embodied carbon without a clear roadmap to follow’. LETI, formerly known as the London Energy Transformation...
Signify says it is on its way to doubling its positive impact on the environment and society while remaining carbon neutral. New figures reveal that having reduced its operational carbon footprint by more than 70 per cent over the last decade, the company said. It says it...
Product designer and environmental expert Simon Fisher tells Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony about his plans for the next programme of Recolight’s workshops on luminaire design. ‘It’s going to be developed to be a far more focused workshop around environmental and circular metrics,’ says Fisher....
A sustainable metric dubbed lighting application efficacy has been developed in a US Government-funded research project. The new measure – designed to quantify lighting use in a building – takes into account how useful the delivered light is in a space. Dr Dorukalp Durmus, assistant professor at...
Signify has unveiled a retail luminaire with a housing made of more than 68% bio-based plastics. The Philips-branded StoreFlow was created for illuminating shopping aisles so that they are lit the brightest at eye level and have a smooth vertical gradient, while maintaining good illumination from...
Whitecroft Lighting has published environmental product declarations for its Mirage 3 Vitality Range. The EPDs – published on the construction specialist EPD platform One Click LCA – cover the C165, C110, C79 and SQ165 variants and are designed to provide the company’s clients and specifiers with what the manufacturer terms transparent,...
Industry representatives are meeting the UK government today to lobby for amendments to the forthcoming Ecodesign regulations. A delegation from the Lighting Industry Association is to discuss the concerns of the sector with the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero. The UK Government’s proposed minimum efficacy...
The Society of Light and Lighting’s latest Lighting Guide 07 (LG7) includes considerations of the circular economy for the first time. The guide – which updates the 2015 original – considers hybrid working, addressing uncertainty around how office space will be used in the future. With increased hybrid...
The headline speakers for next month’s conference on Remanufacturing Lighting have been named by the event’s organiser Recolight. The one-day gathering in London on Thursday 27 April 2023 will explore the opportunities and the challenges associated with reconditioning luminaires. Clients, both corporate and public sector, are starting...
A special lighting version of Cibse’s Technical Memorandum 65 is being planned, it has been revealed. The lighting edition of TM65 – a widely-accepted metric for measuring embodied carbon – is currently in draft stage and is undergoing peer review before it is released later this year. It...