Circular Lighting Live 24 | Programme
The programme for Circular Lighting Live is curated by Ray Molony and the Recolight event team. We use delegate feedback to deliver a programme tailored for you: the challenges you’re facing, and the topics you need to understand more.
8am Registration, exhibition and coffee | Osler Room
MAIN STAGE TRACK | Wolfson Theatre | Chair: Ray Molony
09.00am Welcome
Nigel Harvey, CEO, Recolight
9.15am Buckle up! The EU and UK regulatory roadmap
The traffic of environmental and circular economy legalisation is set to intensify in the coming years. The EU, for instance, is enacting no fewer than 135 different green laws affecting manufacturers. Here Neil McLean, chairman of the LIA’s sustainability working group and industry relations manager, Europe and Asia, at Lutron, gives us an essential update on regulations that will affect everyone in the supply chain.
9.40pm Going green: The perfect world versus the real world
Glamox has spent the last five years integrating sustainability into its everyday practice. This has included producing EPDs for its ranges, redesigning luminaires for circularity and targeting net zero in its operations. Here Birger Holo, group technical director, shares the company’s learnings and insights from its environmental journey.
10.00am How to commercialise remanufacturing
Traditionally, luminaire manufacturers haven’t been geared up for taking their lights back and reconditioning them, and many see it as an unprofitable inconvenience. But, driven by specifiers, remanufacturing is a growing part of the lighting industry and it can be very successful commercially. Here Simon Fisher of the Regen Initiative shares his experience and insights from the chalk face of remanufacturing and sets out the due diligence steps that are required.
10.25am Partnering to meet the LCA challenge
Lighting manufacturers face a daunting task in compiling environmental data for their often extensive ranges of luminaires. Here Max Robson, head of Recolight’s new LCA service, outlines how the organisation can help brands understand the process of calculating the environment impacts of luminaires from data collection to verification.
10.50am Q&A
11.05am Coffee, networking and exhibition
11.35pm Sustainable Plastic Materials for Lighting: A manufacturer’s perspective
Do bio-plastics stand up to scrutiny as a material for luminaire housings, components and optics? In this presentation, Mark Shortland of Shoplight, pioneer of bio plastics in accent luminaires, explores materials for luminaires made from biological substances and looks at the technical challenges in using them in the lighting industry.
11.55pm Sustainable Plastic Materials for Lighting: A supplier’s perspective
Chris Newman, regional technical manager at plastics distributor Albis discusses sustainability as it relates to polymer material selection within the lighting sector. Chris will present strategies that can be deployed at scale, to commercialise greener solutions and the technologies that are being developed by the polymer producers to meet Net Zero. Topics to cover will include the EU Green Deal, TM66, mass balance, mechanical recycling and Life Cycle Assessment (Global Warming Potential).
12.20pm Remarkable lighting – Sustainably printed
From sustainable to truly circular, how artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing and lighting combine to make this dream a nearby reality, today. Bart Maeyens, head of 3D Printing at Signify, on a circular bright future.
12.45pm Q&A
DESIGNERS’ TRACK | Council Chamber | Chairs: Tad Trylski and Emma Cogswell
09.00am Welcome
09.05am The renovation revolution: What it means for lighting
Millions of building across the EU and the UK need to be renovated in the coming years to achieve net zero targets. For a generation of lighting designers weaned on new build, the pivot to refurbishment brings creative challenges and opportunities. Here Mike Peirce, executive director of Systems Change at the Climate Group, looks at the scale of the challenge.
09.30am Illuminating Sustainability: My journey to connect the dots
Paul Beale, founder of 18 Degrees, vividly recalls the turning point in his environmental consciousness. It occurred on site at a business park in Cambridge, where he confronted a vast expanse of newly manufactured luminaires bound for landfill. Here, Paul shares the narrative of how his choice to salvage these lights ignited a journey to forge connections throughout the industry.
09.55am Designers and data: Untangling EPDs, LCAs, TM66 and TM65.2
Kael Gillam, associate lighting designer at Hoare Lea, will explore the current landscape for environmental data and assess the challenges that the lighting design profession faces in incorporating EPDs and other metrics such as TM66 and TM65.2 into their specifications.
10.20am Is remanufacturing always the lower-impact option?
As remanufacturing grows in popularity in lighting installations, it is important to understand its environmental impacts, and to ask key questions. Is remanufacturing always the lower-impact option? When is remanufacturing appropriate and how can we prove it? Dr. Irene Mazzei, Sustainability Lead at Stoane Lighting will talk through some practical case studies and environmental assessment in relation to remanufacturing lighting equipment.
10.45am Q&A
11.00am Coffee, networking and exhibition
11.30am Cat A fit-outs: A design response
How should design practices respond to requests for Cat A fit-outs? That has long been a major challenge for lighting professionals. Lately Hoare Lea has been working with its clients to pioneer a more environmentally responsible approach to Cat A lighting while recognising its commercial imperatives. Here Jonathan Rush MSc FSLL, Hoare Lea director and member of the End Cat A Lighting campaign, explores its new methodologies with reference to recent projects including Botanic Square, Devonshire Square and Timber Square.
11.55am A designer’s metric: The Life Cycle Assessment Incubator
The IALD and the Green Light Alliance have teamed up to address practical life cycle assessment issues for lighting designers. Following LCA Incubator work to produce Industry Environmental Product Declarations for five common architectural luminaires, designers are considering how to apply the data to projects. Here Leela Shanker, design lab director with WAP Sustainability, who led the industry EPD initiative while practicing as lighting designer with Borealis Lighting Studio and Emilio Hernandez, co-founder of Ström and foundering member of the GLA, share preliminary findings on product hotspots, new specification language for designers and the call for industry baselines.
12.15pm EPD V TM65.2 – The same or different?
Environmental Product Declarations and Cibse’s dedicated metric for measuring the embodied carbon of luminaires, TM65.2, are attempting to do similar tasks, which is assess the environmental impact of a light fitting. Are they interchangable or complementary? Here Tim Bowes of the Green Light Alliance compares and contrasts results of an EPD against TM65.2 also considers the issue of lifetime reporting.
12.25pm Q&A
12.30pm Targets: A friend or enemy of creativity?
How can lighting design practices balance a commitment to environmental excellence with creative freedom? Do metrics such as TM66 or programmes such as Breeam or LEED inhibit creativity? Our panel ponders the issues. Participants include Anna Rooney, associate director – lighting at AECOM. Fabiana Nery Pardhanani, Director | GLARE-UK, Colin Ball, lighting director at BDP., and James Poore, creative director at JPLD.
1.00pm Lunch and exhibition | Osler Room
2pm The hierarchy of lighting
Reduce, Reuse, Remanufacture, Replace, Recycle…What do you prioritise when it comes to specifying luminaires? Here Nigel Harvey, chief executive officer of Recolight, unveils an initiative from the organisation to help all lighting professionals set the right priorities for sustainable lighting.
2.10pm How each light will get a passport
Each luminaire is set to get its own ‘passport’ under the Materials Passports initiative pioneered by the London specification community.
The concept is that comprehensive information about each element of a building – from the bricks to the carpet – is available so that it will be easier to reuse when the building is redeveloped or demolished. Here Rachel Hoolahan, associate at architectural practice Orms outlines how the scheme will work.
2.30pm Smart drivers’ role in sustainability
Intelligent drivers can play an increasing role in powering sustainability by delivering key information on device health, burn hours and projected lifetime. This data can minimise premature failures and maximise useful life, as well as offer vital transparency around reuse for remanufacturers. Here Martin Thompson, Technical Services Manager and Sustainability Lead at Tridonic, explores the technology and its applications.
2.50pm Keynote: Is AI the next revolution in sustainable design?
Digitalisation is driving the next industrial revolution. Today, Artificial Intelligence is leading this transformation with unprecedented speed which is impacting the lighting industry at every level. Here Signify’s chief design officer, Ton Borsboom, will explore how we can harness these powerful new tools to accelerate the process of product development, project lighting design and lighting application towards a sustainable outcome.
3.15pm Q&A
3.30pm Coffee, networking and exhibition
4.00pm St Thomas’ Hospital: Adding intelligence to an LED upgrade
A luminaire reconditioning upgrade is the perfect opportunity to cost-effectively add intelligence to a lighting network. At St Thomas’ Hospital in London, the reworking of the lights from fluorescent to LED has also seen the addition of wireless mesh technology to enable the automation of key services, such as daylight control, automatic emergency lighting testing and asset tracking. Here Craig Stead of MyMesh takes us through the ambitious scheme.
4.25pm Starting your Net Zero Journey
Recolight is unveiling a new service today to support the lighting industry on its journey to Net Zero. It’s teamed up with the authoritative environmental consultancy Auditel to help companies and organisations with their carbon accounting and management to global standards while minimising costs. Here consultant assessor Mike Collett of Auditel walks us through the innovative offer.
4.40pm Q&A
4.50 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Getting the supply chain on board
How can the supply chain work better together to drive change in a commercially and environmentally sustainable way? What are the cultural, legislative and technical barriers? And what are the opportunities? Our panel discusses the issues. Panellists include Andrew Bissell, partner at Ridge and past president of the Society of Light and Lighting, Brendon Airey, director of Light Projects Evolve, Kael Gillam, associate lighting designer at Hoare Lea. Susan Griffiths | Global Procurement Solutions Lead – Sustainability CBRE | GWS EA Supply Chain. Chris Barnes, Building Service Manager, London South Bank University.
5.20pm DRINKS RECEPTION (Osler Room)