Somerset’s towns and city are set to save around £160,000 a year by upgrading its high pressure sodium streetlights to LED. Around 20,000 conventional light points will be upgraded using Philips TrueForce LED lamp. The payback will be 18 months and energy consumption will be cut by...
The Holburne Museum in Bath – well known as Lady Danbury’s house in the Netflix series Bridgerton – has reused and upgraded over 300 projector lights. The halogen based lighting was based on MR7 spotlights from Stoane Lighting and were designed for use with 50W MR16 lamps. To...
US lighting design practice Lam Partners has long pioneered the use of digital tools to deliver sophisticated lit environments. Those same tools can be used to optimise sustainability, says senior associate Dan Weissman. In this special video short, he tells Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony...
Scottish lighting firm Stoane Lighting has announced that it’s remanufacturing its MR7 spotlight which was first produced in 1999. The luminaire – which originally housed a 12V MR16 halogen lamp –had a robustness, lockability and on board potentiometer which saw it become popular in museum and...
Students of design have turned their attention to how lighting companies can reuse the waste from manufacturing luminaires. Ideas included dramatic sculptures, a range of food bags made from recycled fabrics and cables and a catalogue of semi-finished lighting products made from waste materials. Young people from...
A series of workshops on how to make a light fitting for the circular economy has been announced by Recolight. The educational events explore the design criteria, regulations and standards to help lighting manufacturers apply and demonstrate circular economy principles in product development. Hosted by industrial designer...
"It’s not unusual for retailers to rip out a store two years after it's been installed, removing they're perfectly good downlights," says Lucent Lighting’s global operations director Lucie Sidwell. Here she tells Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony about the measures the company is taking to...
A luminaire with replaceable GU10 lamps may have a lower environmental impact than one with an integrated LED module. That’s the surprising finding of a survey prepared by Arup for a client. The practice compared a downlight with a fixed LED to one with a GU10 lamp....
Lighting manufacturers and specifiers are being warned that time is running out to comment on the UK Government’s proposed minimum efficacy requirements for light sources. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is proposing a minimum energy performance standard (MEPS) for light sources and lamps...
The City of London is telling building owners and tenants in the Square Mile to reduce their lighting to cut unnecessary energy use and light pollution. According to newly published planning guidance, the City of London Corporation is to create special ‘brightness zones’ in which mandate...