Creating a circular economy in the lighting industry : CIBSE TM66: 2021 / Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (40 pages)

Other Title:

Creating a Circular Economy in the Lighting Industry - CIBSE TM66

Place of Publication:

London : The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), [2021]

Summary:

A full understanding of a scheme's sustainability must also include product life cycle, a cradle-to- cradle analysis of all energy and resource inputs and how to minimise the impact on the environment. Maximising resource efficiency 'designs-out' waste and pollution, keeps products and materials in use, addresses resource scarcity and regenerates natural systems. This is called the circular economy. Over the last decade there has been a laser-like focus on in-use lighting energy efficiency, driven both by economics (a return on a lighting investment delivered by reduced energy costs) and increasingly the move to low or zero carbon buildings in the face of man-made climate change. The result has been a boom in the lighting industry replacing conventionally lamped luminaires with LED versions. Energy efficiency (output efficiency) of individual luminaires is but one narrow measure of lighting's sustainability.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Knovel, March 16, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5231-5020-3