Sustainable architectural lighting is not the absence of light — it is the right amount of the right quality of light delivered through fixtures designed to last decades. At our Bovezzo and Brescia plants we run on certified renewable electricity, repair Castiglioni-era pieces in the same workshops that build today's Compass Box and Belvedere families, and engineer DALI-2 / Casambi controls so every Aim, IC Lights or Easy Kap installed runs only when the space genuinely requires it.
Specifiers who place a FLOS fixture into a hotel, museum or private residence should know what happens to that fixture twenty years later. The four commitments below are written into our project documentation and audited annually by an external partner.
Glass diffusers on Skygarden, drivers on FLOS Architectural Compass Box and the iconic Arco's marble base all exist in our parts catalogue as serviceable items. Independent repairers across Europe receive technical drawings on request to keep legacy editions in the field rather than landfill.
Each luminaire ships with a Country-of-Origin file listing the Veneto glassworks, Brescia turning shop or Brianza assembly cell that produced it. Auditors and procurement leads at hospitality groups can trace any serial number back to its production batch within twenty-four hours.
Bovezzo and the FLOS Architectural plant in Brescia operate on 100% certified renewable electricity backed by Guarantee of Origin certificates. Solar arrays on the Brescia roof cover roughly a third of plant load during the summer specification season.
Recycled-fibre cartons, FSC-certified inserts and reusable timber crates for high-value pieces such as 2097 chandeliers and Skygarden pendants have replaced expanded-polystyrene packing across the catalogue, with project sites able to return crates to a regional collection point.
The targets below sit alongside our parent group's science-based reduction commitments. Architects and ESG-conscious operators receive an annual progress note as part of the FLOS specification dossier on any project larger than fifty fixtures.
By 2030 every active product family — including the historic Castiglioni and Sarfatti reissues — will run on LED engines delivering at least 130 lm/W at CRI 90, allowing architects to maintain visual quality while halving installed lighting power density compared with a pre-2018 specification.
Environmental Product Declarations are being published collection by collection, starting with the FLOS Architectural Compass Box, The Running Magnet 2 and Easy Kap families used in BREEAM and LEED-tracked schemes. Each EPD covers raw-material extraction through end-of-life dismantling.
Hospitality and museum clients can sign a circular service rider where FLOS replaces depleted LED engines and drivers in situ rather than swapping the visible luminaire. The decorative fixture stays on the ceiling; only the field-replaceable module is recycled.
Sustainability cannot mean discarding twentieth-century icons. We will keep tooling, glass moulds and tube-bending jigs for Arco, Toio, Taccia, Parentesi and 2097 active in Bovezzo so future generations specify the original rather than a faster-turning facsimile.
The progress measures below cover the most recent reporting year. Independent auditors verify scope-1, scope-2 and selected scope-3 figures; product-level claims are tied back to our internal serial-number traceability database.
Renewable-electricity contracts and on-site solar at Brescia have driven location-based scope-2 emissions to near zero across the Italian operations, with the remaining residual offset only through certified Italian forestry projects rather than generic international credits.
Spare-part fulfilment for the top fifty most-specified families — led by Arco, IC Lights, Aim, Skygarden and FLOS Architectural Compass Box — sits above ninety-five per cent first-pick rate at the Bovezzo aftercare warehouse, with most orders shipped within forty-eight hours.
Eight families across the FLOS Architectural range now hold third-party-verified EPDs, sufficient to support BREEAM credit MAT 01 on most live UK and EU schemes. Roll-out continues through the decorative collection, prioritised by specification volume.
Pilot circular service riders running with two European hotel groups have already returned more than four thousand depleted LED modules to Bovezzo for refurbishment, with the visible luminaires — many of them Soft Architecture coves — left undisturbed on site.
The certifications below are kept current through annual surveillance audits. Specifiers can request the underlying certificates and test reports through the FLOS Architectural project portal once a brief is registered.
The Bovezzo and Brescia plants are certified to ISO 9001 for quality management and ISO 14001 for environmental management, covering raw-material handling, glass-blowing, brass and aluminium machining, painting and final assembly under a single integrated framework.
Architectural luminaires carry ENEC, CB and CE certification with photometric reports issued from accredited laboratories, ensuring compliance for European tendering as well as cross-acceptance into Middle Eastern and Asian municipal projects.
Driver platforms used across the FLOS Architectural range are listed in the official DALI-2 and Casambi product registers, supporting interoperable scene control on multi-vendor sites without bespoke firmware exceptions or commissioning workarounds.
EPD-backed families and high-efficacy LED engines contribute towards BREEAM MAT 01, ENE 01 and Hea 01 credits as well as LEED EQ Lighting Quality, supported by the FLOS specification team's project-by-project credit narrative on request.
Share your BREEAM, LEED or WELL targets, the design studio leading the project and the operator handover date. The FLOS specification desk will return EPD coverage, photometry and a controls strategy aligned to the credits you need.
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