Reuse websites.
The following websites feature new and nearly-new lights which are available for free.
This comprehensive website from the lighting industry environmental services body Recolight features thousands and new and nearly-new luminaires.
This searchable website features a plethora of equipment removed from buildings, including a lot of commercial lighting.
The Material Reuse Portal has its emphasis on construction materials, and it features a wide selection of surplus luminaires of all description.
Material Index works collaboratively with building owners, contractors and design teams to enable the reuse of material. It provides a range of circular economy services such as pre-demolition audits, reuse consultancy and materials brokerage.
The FIS and its members recognise the need to work to reduce the embodied carbon emissions and waste from the process. To this end, there is a growing appetite for enabling more reuse of products into commercial projects. Currently, some pre-demolition audits (very few pre-fitout audits) are carried out prior to the demolitions stage. The key question this project hopes to address is: how do we enable the routine reuse of these products in the commercial sector?
Led by a group of intrepid pioneers, FIS has taken the plunge and set up a pilot storage facility in East London. This facility will help to isolate and resolve the issues that are blocking a more systemic approach to reuse of product in the fit-out world.
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Portsmouth-based Traco UK will take away large quantities of luminaires and attempt to find a home for them.
Luminaire reconditioners and remanufacturers.
​Glasgow-based EGG Lighting has been a pioneer in remanufacturing for several years, and is on a mission to prove it as a successful and environmentally sustainable business model. Its process is guided by the BS887 and is conducted in line with UK lighting industry and legal requirements. This allows the company to offer as-new warranties. It has a sting of successful projects to its with clients such as Hilton Hotels and Edinburgh Leisure.
​Durham-based Artech Lighting has a specialist 'Revive' service, which remanufactures luminaires, typically from fluorescent to LED. It can also add Bluetooth mesh controls at reconditioning stage. Previous projects include Yarm School in Yorkshire, a lighting upgrade which gave teh client a 11-month payback. Artech Lighting has recently expanded into the Middle East, opening a new office in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
​Founded in the early 1990s, this Buckinghamshire-based business offers turnkey lighting projects to commercial clients including design, supply and install. It boasts a hugely experienced management team and offers bespoke, remanufactured and upcycled luminaires to blue chip clients including the Bank of England, Tesco and Marks & Spencer.
Revitalite is a sister company to commercial lighting manufacturer Synergy Creativ. At 71 Fenchurch Street in the City of London, Revitalite replaced fluorescent lamps and gear with LED modules, cutting energy use by 55 per cent in the process.
FUTUREdesigns specialises in luminaire upgrades featuring large quantities of luminaires. Most of the upgrades are new LED gear trays for fluorescent. For law firm Clifford Chance, FUTUREdesigns saved a staggering 56 tonnes of steel by reusing rather than replacing 22,000 luminaires during a lighting upgrade at its London docklands headquarters. The company also reused over 5,000 existing luminaires at Shell’s headquarters in London, saving the company the equivalent of 71 tonnes of carbon compared to a replacement.
The Regen Initiative is a collective of solution designers, project management team, manufacturers and installers, offering a cutting edge lighting fixture refurbishment service The Regen Initiative breathes new life into projects and fixtures. Reusing, reengineering and remanufacturing from a localised supply chain, in line with circular economy principles and quantifies the capital value as well as, in partnership with Net Zero International.
DRK Lighting will remove Cat A luminaires and offer a rebate. It will then transfer that Cat A product to another Cat A site. Its aim is to achieve both energy efficiency and resource efficiency through sustainable practices. It prioritise reuse and refurbishment over new fittings.