Tenants have begun moving into the UK’s first building with full material passports, including the luminaires.
All the elements of the 94,000 square foot Edenica, at 100 Fetter Lane in the City of London, are documented for their environmental information.
This digital database includes data on the 420 Lina 80 direct/indirect pendant luminaires from Halla.
Designed by Fletcher Priest Architects for BauMont Real Estate Capital and YardNine, the office is being seen as a template for future projects. The standardised approach to compiling the information was pioneered by M&E consultancy Waterman.
The building is all-electric and uses30 per cent less energy than the currently required standards, and is designed to be net-zero carbon in operation.
Materials Passports are digital data sets which describe characteristics of materials and components in products and systems, giving them value for present use, recovery and future reuse.
Edenica will act as a pilot project for their implementation and is the first scheme within the City of London to be designed as a storage bank where materials are held for future reuse.
The passports contain key characteristics of selected building materials held in a centralised database. This can be used to provide reports on maintenance and potential future reuse over the life of the building and beyond, maximising both material life and whole life value.
Waterman is providing technical advice to support the development of an innovative online platform called Circuland which allows the creation, viewing and maintenance of digital Materials Passports across building, development and city levels.
The platform will be used for the digital storage and viewing of the development’s Materials Passports, and the database’s structure will follow the RICS NRM classification system level 2 sub-elements (RICS, 2021). This will allow information from the Materials Passports to be interlinked with Post-Completion Circular Economy Statements and Post-Construction Whole Life Carbon Assessments.
Discussing the impact of Materials Passports, YardNine’s Co-founder, Maxwell Shand, told the Circular Lighting Report. ‘Underpinned by low operational energy and an innovative approach to cutting embodied carbon, Edenica will demonstrate what can be achieved when sustainability is central to a scheme’s design ethos. I believe Waterman’s Materials Passports initiative will quickly become widely adopted as ‘best-practice’ for responsible development.’
• Learn more about sustainable office lighting at a special joint Recolight/End Cat A Lighting Waste campaign webinar ‘Cat A lighting: The alternatives’. It’s free to all and takes place at 11am on Thursday 19 March 2026. More here.
