Light2Perform: treading a circular path

As the lighting industry increasingly focuses on circularity and repair, an expert panel at Light2Perform discussed opportunities and challenges

November 2024

Renewing tradition: installing PVs on King’s College Chapel

Grade I-listed King’s College Chapel, in Cambridge, is one of the UK’s most revered buildings, so a new photovoltaic array on the roof had to…

November 2024

Doing more with less: interview with SLL president Dan Lister

Lighting design should prioritise people-orientated lighting solutions while reducing embodied and operational carbon, according to SLL president Dan Lister, who tells Molly Tooher-Rudd that lighters…

November 2024

Hello darkness, my old friend: award-winning lighting

How three award winners used discreet lighting to highlight heritage structures

November 2024

Cutting carbon: Whitecroft Lighting’s C2C approach

Whitecroft Lighting won a CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award by adopting lean manufacturing and design to cut life-cycle carbon from its products by up to 46%.…

November 2024

A guide to trustworthy heat pump design

A new Passivhaus Trust guide to air-to-water heat pumps aims to highlight some of the complex aspects of design that are sometimes missed by experienced…

November 2024

Kilowatts to Kernow: Decarbonising Cornish housing

In developing a decarbonisation strategy for housing in Cornwall, Etude is recommending a heat pump-first approach for the majority of properties, as Chris Worboys, Naomi Grint and Kate Millen explain

October 2024

From Covid to Cave: UCL’s living lab

Research into airborne transmission risks during Covid-19 played a pivotal role in re-opening the UK safely and led to the creation of a living lab…

October 2024

A healthy balance: tackling net zero and IAQ

There is growing awareness of the synergies and conflicts between IAQ and zero carbon. Foster + Partners’ Jiannan Luo looks at optimal strategies

October 2024

Controlling infectious aerosols

In response to Covid-19, ASHRAE produced a standard aimed at reducing airborne disease transmission. Tim Dwyer looks at minimum requirements and recommendations in Standard 241…

October 2024
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