Sustainability & Domestic Supply Chain

Our sustainability approach

Sustainability for a lighting manufacturer is not a marketing layer — it is engineering, sourcing, and operations. We measure it across four axes: energy efficiency (lumens per watt and controllability), embodied carbon (where the fixture is built and from what), product longevity (driverless architectures and field-replaceable subassemblies that extend service life beyond 100,000 hours), and end-of-life (modular construction that allows boards and optics to be recovered rather than landfilled).

Clear-Vu Lighting builds in Central Islip, NY. That single fact — domestic manufacturing on union labor — cuts transportation-related Scope 3 emissions versus offshore-built equivalents and aligns with federal Buy America Build America (BABA) procurement rules under IIJA. Read the related, deeper engineering story on the American-Made page.

LEED v4.1 contribution

Our fixtures contribute to the following LEED v4.1 credit categories on Building Design + Construction and Interior Design + Construction projects:

• EA Optimize Energy Performance — DLC Premium-listed LED fixtures with controllability via Occu-Smart, 0–10V, DALI, and DMX deliver the lumen-per-watt and dimming credit profile required to exceed ASHRAE 90.1-2019 baselines.
• EQ Interior Lighting — tunable-white and high-CRI options (90+ CRI on cleanLED and orLED) support the lighting quality credit.
• EQ Daylight — networked dimming through clearNET or Occu-Smart Bluetooth allows daylight harvesting compliance without third-party drivers.
• MR Building Product Disclosure & Optimization — RoHS, REACH, and Prop 65 disclosures available on request. Health Product Declarations (HPDs) in development for the 2026 spec catalog.
• MR Sourcing of Raw Materials — domestic content statements provided per project for BABA-compliant product lines.

For project-specific LEED documentation packages, contact sales@clearvulighting.com with the project name, target certification level, and the credits being pursued.

Energy efficiency & DLC

Every commercial fixture family in the active catalog — cleanLED, orLED, Sentinel Guard, MTLx, FLEX SLS, Linear LED, and Architectural LED — is engineered to qualify for utility rebate programs and DLC Premium where applicable. Specifiers can pull DLC qualification numbers from the DLC Qualified Products List using the manufacturer name “Clear-Vu Lighting” or “Lamar LED”.

Occu-Smart bi-level motion sensors deliver an additional 60–75% energy reduction on top of the baseline LED efficiency, with more than 500,000 units installed in the field. Bi-level dimming combined with daylight harvesting is the single most cost-effective LEED EA-credit lever available in stairwell, corridor, parking, and transit applications.

Domestic supply chain & embodied carbon

The carbon footprint of a luminaire is overwhelmingly determined by where the LED engine, driver, and housing are built and shipped from. A fixture built in Central Islip and shipped to a Manhattan jobsite carries a fraction of the transport-related embodied carbon of an Asia-built equivalent landed at Newark.

We hold BABA (Build America Buy America) compliant production lines for the majority of the catalog. cleanLED, FLEX SLS, and clearNET are flagged as partial-domestic on the compliance page — specific component sourcing is disclosed on the per-project compliance package.

Materials, packaging & end of life

• Aluminum housings: 6063-T5 extruded aluminum — one of the most-recycled industrial materials in North America. Post-consumer recycled content available on request.
• Mercury-free: All Clear-Vu products are solid-state LED — zero mercury, unlike the linear fluorescent and HID fixtures they replace.
• RoHS, REACH, Prop 65 compliant: hazardous-substance and chemical-of-concern compliance documented per /compliance.
• Packaging: 100% corrugated cardboard outers, no expanded polystyrene foam inserts on standard SKUs — recyclable curbside.
• End-of-life: Driverless architectures on MTLx, orLED, and Sentinel Guard mean the LED engine itself is the only board to replace at end of life — the housing, optics, and gear tray are designed to be re-deployed across product generations.

ESG & corporate procurement reporting

For Fortune-500 buyers and federal agencies running ESG-aligned procurement, we provide on request:

• Scope 1 + 2 emissions profile of the Central Islip manufacturing facility
• Domestic content percentage by product family (BABA documentation)
• Union workforce statement (UAW Local 259)
• EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) program enrollment status
• HPD (Health Product Declaration) for spec-listed SKUs — rolling out through 2026
• Supplier diversity disclosure where relevant to the procurement vehicle

Request the current sustainability dossier from sales@clearvulighting.com with the project name and the ESG questionnaire format your buyer uses.

Sustainability documents

• Compliance page — BABA, BAA, DFARS 252.225, Section 889, TAA, RoHS, REACH, Prop 65, Byrd Amendment, Section 508 / VPAT, FAR 9.4 non-debarment statements
• American-Made page — manufacturing facility tour, union workforce, BABA documentation process
• BABA & Buy America — certification letter request form
• Resources hub — IES photometric files, spec sheets, installation guides