Arcluce lighting: products and EPD coverage
Architectural lighting is crowded, fast‑moving, and increasingly shaped by carbon transparency. Here is how Arcluce shows up today, where their Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) cover the range, and where adding a few more could unlock extra specs when LEED v5 and owner policies are steering choices.
Who Arcluce is and where they play
Arcluce is an Italian manufacturer focused on architectural lighting for exterior and interior applications. Think urban streetscapes, façades, paths, plazas, hospitality, retail, and workplaces. The brand positions around design detail, robust housings, and a Made‑in‑Italy story that resonates on civic and campus projects.
Product portfolio at a glance
The catalog spans many families rather than a single specialty. Outdoors includes bollards, post‑tops, wall and façade units, ingrade and step lights, ceiling fixtures, and floodlights. Indoors covers recessed downlights, ceiling and pendant luminaires, track and modular systems, office floor lamps, and high‑bay options. Across variants and optics, the portfolio likely reaches into the hundreds of SKUs.
EPD coverage today
Arcluce publicly lists a set of models with verified EPDs under the PEP Ecopassport program, including KLOU150, KLOU180, LUNIO, LUNIO7, LUNIO‑STREET, MIKO Grande, FORMAT1, CONO, and VICTORY. See the company’s announcement and links to the declarations on its site. (Arcluce models with EPD)
PEP Ecopassport EPDs are Type III declarations and are typically valid for five years, which aligns with ISO 14025 practice across major operators (EPD International, 2025). In 2025, PEP Ecopassport and EPD International agreed on mutual recognition that helps harmonize PSRs and PCRs used for electrical and construction products, which improves market acceptance across Europe and beyond (EPD International, 2025).
Where gaps likely remain
The listed EPDs focus on urban and exterior heroes. Arcluce’s indoor lines are broad, yet many common spec items in offices, education, and retail, such as recessed downlights, track heads, and linear pendants, are not called out as having EPDs on the site today. That suggests partial coverage by product type and by application. If a design team needs a consistent EPD story from lobby to landscape, this patchwork can slow selection.
Why the gaps matter in specs
LEED v5 is rolling out in 2025, with a sharper focus on decarbonization and clearer accounting for materials. Owners and AEC teams increasingly prefer product‑specific EPDs to avoid generic penalties in embodied‑carbon accounting. Having one for the exact luminaire keeps a brand in contention without forcing value‑engineering battles on price alone (USGBC, 2025).
Competitive yardstick
Arcluce most often meets European and global peers on the same shortlists: Signify’s Philips professional range, Zumtobel Group brands, Fagerhult Group brands, ERCO, XAL, Targetti, and regionally strong street and urban lighting specialists. Several of these publish broad luminaire EPD sets across indoor and outdoor. For example, XAL lists EN 15804‑compliant luminaire EPDs like ENVIVA suspended direct or indirect lighting, which helps on office and education scopes (EPD International, 2025).
As a concrete scenario, a specifier seeking a pendant family with an EPD for a workplace fit‑out might find a competitor EPD quickly and keep the schedule moving. If Arcluce does not have an EPD for the specific pendant on that submittal, they can lose preferred‑vendor status even if photometrics are excellent. That is avoidable.
A likely best‑seller to prioritize
Given site emphasis and project galleries, the indoor recessed downlight and pendant families look like high‑velocity lines in North America. Adding EPDs for a representative downlight series and a staple pendant would cover many floor plates at once. It is defintely the shortest path to higher hit rates on LEED‑oriented office and higher‑ed work.
Fast path to fuller coverage
- Pick one or two high‑volume indoor families and one outdoor family for a first wave. Ensure variants share a functional unit so one EPD can credibly cover multiple SKUs.
- Align to PEP Ecopassport, with an eye on the PEP–IES mutual recognition to meet European EN 15804 expectations and maintain flexibility for multinational specs (EPD International, 2025).
- Prepare bills of materials, yearly energy and scrap data, packaging, and transport assumptions up front. The smoother the data pull, the quicker the review.
- Time publication to avoid a crunch near PCR sunsets. Most operators publish within a few days to a couple weeks once verification is cleared.
What buyers should watch for when choosing an LCA partner
Speed matters because many projects pick fixtures late in DD or early CD. The partner should handle cross‑plant data collection and variant mapping without pulling your engineers off the line. They should also advise which PCR or PSR competitors use, so your EPDs are apples to apples on the spec sheet.
Bottom line for Arcluce
Arcluce already has credible exterior EPDs in market. Extending that to a handful of core indoor families would give teams a clean, portfolio‑wide narrative. That shift removes friction for LEED‑minded owners and keeps Arcluce in more shortlists from plaza to penthouse.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are PEP Ecopassport EPDs recognized in European building projects that use EN 15804 rules?
Yes. In 2025, PEP Ecopassport and the International EPD System announced mutual recognition that aligns their PSRs and PCRs, supporting EN 15804 use cases in construction markets (EPD International, 2025).
How long are luminaire EPDs typically valid?
Five years is the standard validity across major operators, with updates required if impacts change materially during the period (EPD International, 2025).
Does LEED v5 change the business case for lighting EPDs?
LEED v5’s 2025 rollout keeps embodied‑carbon accounting front and center, which increases preference for product‑specific EPDs on common fixtures in office, education, and healthcare scopes (USGBC, 2025).
About the Author
With a passion for sustainability and a love for complex data, Toby helps manufacturers efficiently collect data from across their organization and get their EPDs done right. He’s especially interested in how AI can support human expertise, helping R&D and factory teams work faster, smarter, and with less friction.
