WEBINAR | Cat A lighting: The alternatives
Did you know that up to 100,000 light fittings are removed in the UK every week.
Worse, many have barely been switched on.
That’s the annual equivalent of 104,000 tonnes of CO2, a bubble big enough to contain the Shard building.
Just 7 per cent of the discarded lights are recycled appropriately. The rest usually ends up in the waste stream.
We believe this practice is unsustainable and needs to stop.
Please join us at this event to discuss the alternatives to Cat A waste, explore how we can accelerate the good work that many developers, designers and fit-out contractors are doing and support the campaign to End Cat A Waste forever.
Speakers include:
- John McRae, director, Orms
John is an architect pioneering sustainability in commercial buildings. - Paul Beale, founder, 18 Circular
18 Circular is an innovative business model: Cat A Lighting as a service. - Tina Paillet FRICS, CEO, Circotrade
Circotrade is a trading platform unlocking the future value of your building’s materials. - Hattie Emerson, Sustainability Consultant, Finishes and Interiors Sector Reuse Project
The project is organising the identification, strip-out, storage and reuse of office lights, ceilings and floors. - Nigel Harvey, CEO, Recolight.
- Your Chair, Ray Molony, Editor of the 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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Paul BealeFounder & Director at 18 CircularPaul Beale is the Founding Director of 18 Circular, a London-based lighting design consultancy focused on delivering sustainable, human-centred lighting for commercial buildings and public spaces. With a background spanning over two decades, Paul is known for pioneering approaches that combine design excellence with environmental responsibility.
In 2023, he launched 18 Circular, an initiative aimed at eliminating lighting waste in commercial fit-outs through reuse, remanufacture, and smarter procurement. The initiative is now gaining traction with major UK landlords and real estate partners as a scalable model for circularity in the built environment.
Prior to founding 18 Degrees, Paul established Electrolight, a globally recognised design practice with studios in Australia and the US. His portfolio includes award-winning work across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. -
John McRae BA, Dip Arch, ARB, RIBATrustee and Director, OrmsJohn joined Orms in 1997 and serves as a Trustee and Director of the practice. With extensive experience across workplace, education, hotels and healthcare sectors, he focuses on creating architecture that responds sensitively to users’ individual and collective needs. His notable projects include The Outernet, one of the UK’s most visited tourist attractions, No1 New Oxford Street and the highly acclaimed transformation of The Standard, formerly Camden Town Hall. John specialises in unlocking hidden value through transformative reuse projects and maintains up-to-date knowledge of the evolving workplace market.
Ultrapractical means to go above and beyond what we have been set as a brief and seeks to meet the needs of those beyond it. In doing so our architecture is committed to balancing commercial viability, social and environmental values as seen at The Standard and Outernet, London. With nearly 30 years of experience across a wide range of sectors and in transforming existing buildings at different scales enables me to ask the right questions to ensure we maximise what we have and are thinking harder about the built environment. My work with Camden and Oxford Design Review Panels, judging of industry awards and written articles reinforces my commitment to creating an ultrapractical architecture.
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Hattie EmersonSustainability ConsultantHattie has dedicated nearly 20 years to driving the sustainability agenda within the construction industry, working with principal contractors to integrate sustainable practices across all sectors.
Throughout her career, Hattie has led multi-disciplinary teams, linking carbon and commercial considerations to deliver innovative solutions. She combines her technical knowledge with a problem-solving approach to incorporate resource efficiency and circular economy innovations into construction processes. Her work spans a variety of initiatives, from promoting the reuse of structural steel to introducing material passporting and advocating for the use of natural and biobased materials.
As the Project Manager for the FIS Project Reuse, she is leading a cross-industry group to dive into the nuts and bolts of reuse. The project is a crowd-funded initiative getting hands-on experience of the transfer of products from one project to another with a change of ownership. All learnings and case studies are shared with the industry. She also works with the ACAN Circular Economy Task Group to share knowledge and effect change.
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Tina PailletCEOTina Paillet is CEO of Circotrade – a technologically enabled trading platform which captures buildings’ unrealised value by listing, gauging and trading its components via an innovative futures contract. By increasing the uptake of secondary construction materials and products, Circotrade addresses the impacts the built environment has on climate change.
As an international real estate executive, Tina has over 30 years of experience including 12 years developing and leading one of the world’s largest real estate asset managers, with 32 billion euros of assets under management. She has overseen global asset management, major development projects and sustainable investing across Europe, the UK and globally. Tina has also been leading green transformation in the sector by launching Europe’s first Green Bonds and developing decarbonization strategies in line with Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance commitments.
Tina is the 142nd President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and co-founder of the Circular Do Tank – an industry led initiative leading the reuse revolution in the built environment.
She is also a Trustee of World Habitat, supporting innovative housing solutions accross the globe, and European Ambassador for the World Green Building Council’s #BuildingLife campaign, promoting whole life cycle carbon accounting and the circular economy in the European building and construction industry.
