Sustainable design

A useful example of sustainable design comes from BASF, and their development of the eco-efficiency tool. This tool seeks to integrate the combined aspects of each of the three pillars in an attempt to quantify the most sustainable products and illustrates some of the concerns associated with evaluating sustainable products. For example, the economic analysis includes a total cost of ownership that goes beyond the purchase price of a product to incorporate the cost of operation, the cost of environmental health and safety, and the cost of labour. Thus, even though a product may have a lower purchase price, it may be more expensive to use and thus costlier over the total life cycle of the product. 

SEEBA workshop on Supply Chain Management Meeting Electronics Customer Environental Requirements, 30 April 2003, Centre for Sustainable Design, Farnham, UK Envirowise (2001) ENDS Report 321, Envirowise revamp brings advice on cleaner product design, October 2001. Envirowise is funded by the UK Department of Trade and Industry. See www.envirowise.org Apple (2005) Apple states its environmental policy with respect to materials at http //www.apple.com/ environment/design/materials/selection. html... 

Understanding of natural systems—An understanding of natural systems (i.e., ecosystems) from the life sciences, physics, and chemistry, perspectives is necessary for engineers of sustainable design. 

Korevaar G, Harmsen GJ, Lemkowitz, S. Sustainable Technology Introduction to the Field of Sustainability and Sustainable Design. Course book Faculty Applied Sciences, Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2001. 

Researchers interested in renewable resources should use the principles listed in Figures 3.1 and 3.2 when designing new processes, products and materials. The principles focus your thinking in terms of sustainable design criteria and have already provided innovative solutions to a wide range of problems, and will ultimately benefit the environment, economy and society (otherwise known as the triple bottom line). 

Janine Benyus 12 Sustainable Design Ideas from Nature. www.ted.com/ index.php/talks/view/id/18. 

This section provides an introductory overview of some of the concepts and ideas that underlie the development of sustainable design approaches. This overview is followed by a discussion of cradle-to-cradle design, a lifecycle-based approach to material assessment and product design, and a brief discourse on the emerging principles of sustainable engineering. These correspond to some of the emerging... 

Motivated by systems thinking and the lifecycle concepts, strategies for sustainable design typically focus on the entire product system, including design of the product... 

Viewed through this lens, innovative activity focused on opportunities for new markets in sustainably designed products presents the chemical industry, and the industries it supplies, with potentially enormous entrepreneurial opportunities. As feedstock providers, chemical companies have the opportunity to shape new competitive space in the near future. They can differentiate their products and strategies in ways that will gain future competitive advantage over those who fail to react. In... 

Sustainability is a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely. The term, in its environmental usage, refers to the potential longevity of vital human ecological support systems, such as the planet s climatic system, systems of agriculture, industry, forestry and fisheries, systems on which they depend in balance with the impacts of our unsustainable or sustainable design. 

Additionally, using the cradle-to-cradle sustainable design approach introduced by McDonough and Braungart (2002) and Cao et al. (2006) developed a science-based course to educate students about the environmental issues related to the AT industry. 

Young, C., Jirousek, C., Ashdow, S., 2004. Undesigned a study in sustainable design of apparel using post-consumer recycled clothing. Cloth. Text. Res. J. 22, 61-68. 

McDonough, W., Braungart, M., 2013. The Upcycle Beyond Sustainability-Designing for Abundance, North Point Press, New York. 

El-Halwagi, M.M. (2012) Sustainable Design through Process Integration Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention. Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement, Elsevier. 

The review paper by Barbosa-Pdvoa (2007) covered various approaches for both design and retrofit design problems. It is noteworthy that the approaches reported to the date of this publication took into account only retrofitting analysis regarding the scheduling of batch operations, and Barbosa-Pdvoa (2007) did not consider the benefits that can be achieved in terms of sustainable design. 

Fabric Architecture (2008), Sustainable Fabric Basics , Sourcebook Sustainable Design Techniques, Fabric Architecture, 7/8-2008, Vol. 20, No. 4... 

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