GEORGE MAKES IMPASSIONED PLEA FOR BETTER BUILDING DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

English architect, TV presenter and built environment campaigner George Clarke spoke to nearly 40 of the UK’s leading lighting designers and consulting engineers at a special event hosted by Redditch-based Tamlite Lighting.

The circular economy, sustainable specification and greening the built environment supply chain were among the recurring themes at Tamlite’s second Let’s Talk About Light event, held at The Belfry Hotel in Birmingham.

Alongside George Clarke, the speakers were Bob Bohannon, Head of Policy and Academy at The Lighting Industry Association, lead author of the Society of Light and Lighting’s Lighting Guide Update, Iain MacCrae and Strategic Solution Sales Manager at Basingstoke-based lighting company Tridonic UK, Simon Blazey.

George Clarke’s speech was an impassioned plea for more holistic approaches to building design and management – as well as a less siloed approach to thinking about building services – and lighting in particular.

This is Tamlite’s second “Let’s Talk about Light” event. The company, established more than 50 years ago, has six factories across Redditch and Telford from which it designs, manufactures and delivers lighting for residential and commercial applications, including industrial buildings and emergency lighting.