Lighting Today : Quarter 1 / 2024

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trends SUSTAINABLE LIGHTING
Landmark Lighting
remanufacture project shines
light on smarter techniques
The completion of a landmark lighting remanufacturing
project is being heralded as the gold standard in ecofriendly
office refurbishment.
The refurbishment of Arup’s office at Piccadilly Place,
Manchester was the stage for the project, led by The Regen
Initiative and supported by technology from Tridonic UK.
Arup currently occupies the 6th Floor and the project
included an expansion to the 7th Floor and refurbishment of
both spaces. A key project objective was to reduce embodied
carbon by renovating or repurposing furniture and equipment
as an exemplar demonstration for our clients. Arup wanted to
explore the refurbishment of the existing TC-L luminaires to
LED and approached The Regen Initiative for their expertise
in lighting remanufacture.
Conceived by F Mark and COCO Lighting, The Regen
Initiative offers a lighting fixture refurbishment service,
breathing new life into existing fixtures. By sharing their
collective knowledge and remanufacture skills they are able to
offer a service that encompasses circular economy principles
to reduce carbon in refit projects. These principles and
practices provide a credible alternative to just ‘fitting new’
that will last for generations to come.
Arup and The Regen Initiative collaborated in the design,
prototyping and testing on-site of the retrofit solution to
ensure the optical performance could be maintained, to define
a specification for light quality, and to integrate smart wireless
lighting controls to replace the existing DALI system which
was unfit for purpose.