Sustainable design

Environmentally sustainable design (also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of ecological sustainability and also aimed at improving the health and comfort of occupants in a building. Sustainable design seeks to reduce negative impacts on the environment, the health and well-being of building occupants, thereby improving building performance. The basic objectives of sustainability are to reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize waste, and create healthy, productive environments. Theory The sustainable design intends to "eliminate negative environmental impact through skillful sensitive design". Manifestations of sustainable design require renewable resources and innovation to impact the environment minimally, and connect people with the natural environment. “Human beings don't have a

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Decision-based methods for early phase sustainable product design

Razvan Alexandru Gheorghe, Paul Xirouchakis

This paper presents a new method for evaluating product designs at their early stage of development according to different criteria and a case-study-based project. The goal is to select among imprecisely defined design alternatives in a multicriteria context, as is required for taking into account sustainability considerations. Imprecision-the most dominant type of uncertainty during the early stages of design-is defined as designer's preferences for a range of values in the design variables; it can be modelled by fuzzy numbers. The project involves the analysis of three design concepts of a vacuum cleaner (paper bag, plastic bin with filters and plastic bin with cyclone). Using the proposed multicriteria decision method different End-of-Life (EOL) strategies for the three concepts are investigated from the viewpoint of four criteria (one economic and three environmental). Sensitivity analyses are performed to identify the parameters influencing the robustness of the decisions. The case study will show that the 'right' decision (i.e. the selection off between criteria performances.

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Proposal of a Closed Loop Framework for the Improvement of Industrial Systems' Life Cycle Performances: Experiences from the LinkedDesign Project

Ana Milicic

The context where European manufacturers of industrial systems operate has dramatically changed over recent years: the pressure of emerging countries they have to face, policy makers' environmental laws and industrial companies' interests are pushing towards sustainable manufacturing and a holistic view of industrial systems. Designers and system engineers are the main actors involved, because they have high influence on product life cycle costs and environmental impacts. However they need tools to pursue a holistic view. The aim of this paper is to propose a closed loop framework to improve life cycle performances of industrial systems, focusing on the automotive sector. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Elsevier Science Bv2015

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A Study on Social Assessment in Holistic Lifecycle Management

Fatih Karakoyun

Sustainable manufacturing has been focus of the industry for some time. Due to the holistic nature of sustainability not only the manufacturing processes but the whole life cycle and the environmental, economic and social aspects of the product should be taken in to account. In order to leverage from the concept of sustainability it is necessary to involve it in decision making process in the supply chain. It is essential to have an evaluation procedure so as to involve it in decision making which should be capable of assessing economic, environmental and social performance of the product. Unfortunately the social dimension of sustainability is the least developed and even neglected because it is difficult to evaluate due to its quantitative and subjective nature. The social aspects of holistic life cycle approach will be presented in this paper.

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

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ME-516: Lifecycle performance of product systems

Provide the conceptual, technical and methodological understanding of measuring and evaluating the production/consumption decisions on the environmental, social and economic performance of products and services over their life cycle.

AR-442: Comfort and architecture: sustainable strategies

This class offers an overview about comfort evaluations in architectural design and suggests passive and low-energy strategies suited to ensure the highest possible indoor environment quality for buildings.

MICRO-406: Products design & systems engineering

This course will cover all the aspects of product design and system engineering from learning relevant methods to the actual implementation in a hands-on practice of product development.

Architecture écologique

L'architecture écologique (ou architecture durable) est un système de conception et de réalisation ayant pour préoccupation de concevoir une architecture respectueuse de l'environnement et de l'écolo

Économie circulaire

L'économie circulaire est un nouveau modèle économique à vision systémique. Les notions d'économie verte, d’économie de l'usage ou de l'économie de la fonctionnalité, de l'économie de la performance

Construction durable

Lécoconstruction ou construction durable est la création, la restauration, la rénovation ou la réhabilitation d'un bâtiment en lui permettant de respecter au mieux l'écologie à chaque étape de la co