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3. INITIAL ANALYSIS DECISIONS Your Influence Is Critical In the midst of the myriad sustainability tools, techniques, global and local activities, and corporate initiatives the product designer plays a key role. This person has an impact in the pivotal stage where decisions are made about what inputs are needed, how they must be processed, what the product’s lifecycle looks like, and what its end of life looks like. Engineering for sustainability early in the design process creates a trajectory that can lock in the benefits from the beginning, whereas leaving environmental impact considerations for later stages creates costly clean-up and accommodation efforts. For instance, a product designed for easy disassembly requires much less effort to convert into recyclable and reusable components than one designed as a single module requiring energy-intensive end-of-life processing. The following graph reflects the advantages of making sustainability a priority as early in t...

This section describes what is meant by “sustainability” and what you need to know about this concept. It starts out broadly, outlining why sustainability is important to the world, then what it means in the context of business, and finally why it is important in your role as a designer, engineer, product specialist, or other type of product design professional.

After a long time I have found an interesting guide on sustainable design & engineering and I must thank Dassault Systèmes - SolidWorks Corp. for it. The ideas of sustainability and sustainable design are a growing part of today’s product design conversations. But exactly what is sustainable design, and how do you create a greener product?  We’ll answer these questions through this Guide to Sustainable Design with interactive content and detailed examples.

On 11 September, IEMA hosted its third EIA Quality Mark Forum, bringing together environmental impact assessment (EIA) professionals from across the UK to discuss the future of EIA and debate how the process could be delivered more proportionately. The day was opened by IEMA’s practice and policy lead on EIA, Josh Fothergill, who revealed that the quality of non-technical statements from the EIA Quality Mark’s 48 participants had improved over the previous 12 months. However, he warned: “EIAs can still be unfocused and complex, with lengthy environmental statements that make it difficult for the public and consenting authorities to access the information they contain.”