Sustainability - Ark Lighting

Illuminate the path to change.
Sustainable, modern lighting for the future.

We’re doing our part to power the world to change. Our resources are precious, and we want to protect them whenever possible. Our designers prefer to work with low energy, high-efficiency lighting alternatives such as LED lighting in order to minimise power consumption in your homes and commercial buildings.

We work to provide sustainable lighting solutions so that you can rest easy knowing that your space is not unnecessarily draining power or contributing to a large environmental footprint. With experienced designers and consultants, we’ve put a lot of thought into how our lighting solutions can work with their environment instead of against it.

Though we specialise in creating sustainable lighting plans, you’ll never have to sacrifice style or appearance. Offering only the highest quality products, our lighting fixtures create ambient, appealing spaces without being hard on the environment. From design to supply, you’ll receive a sustainable partner when you choose Ark Lighting.

Contributing to Burwood Brickworks, the World's Most Sustainable Shopping Centre

Melbourne’s Burwood Brickwork’s is the World’s Most Sustainable Shopping Centre measured through accreditation to the Living Building Challenge (LBC). The entire project was driven by both environmental and social sustainability, with focus of the LBC on “the relationship between impact and effort”.

Ark Lighting was proud to contribute our lighting products to a couple of projects within this climate conscious project. As a contributing lighting supplier we were required to ensure the lighting design and lighting products met the following requirements for both an environmentally and socially sustainable impact:

Lighting design meets all illuminance & uniformity requirements as per AS1680 (Minimum lighting levels required for specific tasks)
Lighting Power Density is no greater than 5 Watts per m²
All lights to have a CRI at least 80
Any light fitting with ballast must be high frequency ballasts
All lamps have diffusers, baffles etc to prevent direct visual exposure to the lamp
Must have the ability to control the lighting levels to suit their task and the background lighting conditions eg. Dimmable lighting or localised task lighting

While all our products meet or exceed a CRI rating of 80 and are constructed with non-toxic materials (as evidenced with our ingredients lists), the challenge came with providing a power density of no more than 5w/m and meeting the lighting needs of the client. Collaborating with the store designers we were able to meet this challenge and provide two comparative lighting outcomes tailored for their specific purposes: Eye Trend Optometrists and Hui Hui Supermarket.

EYE TREND OPTOMETRIST utilised a cool 4K light providing a bright space for customers to attend to their optical needs.

HUI HUI SUPERMARKET utilised a warmer 3K light, allowing a softened visual impact upon entry into the southern entrance of the brickworks shopping precinct. The lighting layout is designed to calmly guide the customer around the store.