Transcript topic-3-green-design-student-pranshu sejpal

Topic 3 Green Design
Principles of Green Design
Life Cycle Analysis
Strategies for Green Design
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Task
• Working in pairs/groups and using the
following slides and their titles, you are
going to research and complete each of
the tasks
• Definitions and detailed explanations are
required supported by examples
• Add a bibliography to your slide show and
give sources for any images used in the
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Green Design
• Define:
 Product design philosophy that treats
environmental attributes as design objectives
and not as constraints. It aims at incorporating
those attributes without compromising
performance, quality, functionality, and the
useful life of the item.
• Source:
 http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/greendesign.html
Renewable Resources
• Define:
 Energy and materials that are either totally
replaced by natural processes or are
practically inexhaustible. For instance, solar
energy keeps replacing by natural processes.
• Source:
 http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/ren
ewable-resources.html
Non-renewable Resources
• Define:
 Non-renewable Resources are also known as
depletable resources as once these resources are
consumed, they cannot be replaced. For example,
if resources such as coal, oil and natural gas are
consumed it is very hard to retrieve them back as
these processes had taken thousands of years to
develop.
• Sources:
 http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/no
n-renewable-resource.html
Reasons for Green Design
• Outline the reasons for green design:
 We need to follow green design to protect the environment we live
in consequently it benefits the human kind.
 Green design recycles resources and helps to prevent tremendous
amount of waste in the environment.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
- Stuart Udall
• Consider consumer pressure and legislation:
 People have become aware of taking responsibility to protect the
environment and so has the government.
 People have started protest against the use of non-renewable
resources whereas the government has put on heavy legislations to
discourage the use of non-renewable resources.
“Take back” legislation
• Define:
 The “Take back” legislation holds the manufacturers responsible for
the environmentally safe recycling or disposal of all end-life
products.
 The manufacturers are expected to provide a financial or physical
plan to ensure that such products are collected and processed.
• Examine the impact on designers and
manufacturers.
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2.
To give economic incentives for designers to produce
environmentally safe designs.
To reduce the environmental impact of waste by increasing the
volume that is recovered or recycled.
People’s Attitude to Green Issues
• Eco-warriors : A person who is actively against and tries to stop
activities which damage the environment.
• Eco-champions: A person who personally likes to promote
environmentally friendly goods and issues.
• Eco-fans : A person who enthusiastically adopts environmentally
friendly products.
• Eco-phoebes: A person who resents talks about all issues related to
environmental protection.
• Sources:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=1082420&dict=CAL
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http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/ECOWARRIOR
Eco-Footprint
• Eco-footprint : An eco-footprint is the amount of the Earth's
energy that someone or something can be able to use.
• Sources :
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=1082420&di
ct=CALD
Life Cycle Analysis
 Define : Life Cycle Analysis is the investigation and evaluation
of the environmental impacts of a given product or service
caused or necessitated by its existence.(source: Wikipedia.)
 Def.2 : A methodology that identifies the environmental
impacts associated with the life cycle of a material or product
in a specific application, thus identifying opportunities for
improvement in environmental performance. (source: Google)
 List with the links the top 10 results
 Look at each site and list products mentioned in the sites as
examples
 Use images and reference correctly all sources used
Eco Labelling
• "Ecolabelling" is a voluntary method of
environmental performance certification and
labelling that is practised around the world. An
"ecolabel" is a label which identifies overall
environmental preference of a product or service
within a specific product/service category based
on life cycle considerations. In a way, it also
encourages producers to make green products as
the consumers would now start preferring to buy
eco-labelled products.
Eco-mark: India - A government operated
seal of approval program for environmentally
preferable consumer products.
Eco-Labelling Schemes
• EU Ecolabel: A voluntary scheme designed to
encourage businesses to market products and
services that are kinder to the environment and for
European consumers - including public and private
purchasers - to easily identify them.
• Green Seal: Green Seal certified products meet
science-based environmental certification standards
that are credible and transparent. Green Seal utilize
a life-cycle approach.
• Products only become Green Seal certified after
rigorous testing and evaluation, including on-site
plant visits.
• This certification is only valid in the U.S.
Design for Manufacture (DfM)
• Define: Designing a product to be produced
in the most efficient manner possible in terms
of time, cost and resources, taking into
consideration how the product will be
processed, and using the existing skill base
to achieve the highest yields possible.
• Sources:
http://www.ami.ac.uk/courses/topics/0100_gls
/glossary/glossd.htm
Design for Materials
• Define: Designing in relation to materials
during processing.
Design for Process
• Define: Designing to enable the product to
be manufactured using a specific
manufacturing process, for example,
injection molding.
Design for Assembly
• Define: Designing taking account for
assembly at various levels, for example,
component to component, components
into sub-assemblies and sub-assemblies
into complete product.
Environmental Impact
• Describe how designers can modify the
environmental impact of the production,
use and disposal of their product through
careful consideration at the design stage
• Relate this to McDonalds/Smart Cars
research
Reuse, Repair, Reconditioning
& Recycling
• Reuse: To use again, especially after
salvaging or special treatment or processing.
• Repair: To restore to sound condition after
damage or injury.
• Reconditioning: To restore to good condition,
especially by repairing, renovating, or
rebuilding.
• Recycling: Recycling is the process of reusing a given product (beyond its intended
use), or producing a new product from a
recyclable material.
Recycling Materials
• Metal: It can be recycled by changing it into liquid
state and then giving it the desiring shape.
• Manila paper: Manila paper is semi-bleached
chemical sulphate paper.It is generally
inexpensive. It’s not strong as most papers but
has better printing qualities.
• Aluminium: Aluminium is 100% recyclable without
any loss of its natural qualities. Recovery of the
metal via recycling has become an important facet
of the aluminium industry.
Design for Disassembly
• Define: Designing a product so that when
it becomes obsolete it can easily and
economically be taken apart, the
components reused or repaired, and the
materials recycled.
Strategies of Design for Disassembly
• Discuss two strategies that designers
could employ to design for disassembly
• Use the some of the images provided for
your answers
• Some of the images link to their original
sites
Strategies of Design for Disassembly
• Designing components made from one material
• Using thermoplastic adhesives that lose their
properties when reheated
• Designing snap fittings instead of welding and
glueing
Bibliography
• http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/environment/waste_dispo
sal/recycling_kid_zone/whathappens/recyclingrecyled/re
cyclingplastic.htm
• http://www.novelisrecycling.co.uk/index_community_recy
cling_enterprise.php
• http://www.ayres.com.au/category.asp?c1id=131
• http://www.88-gifts.com/razrv3/motorola-v3-razr-blackpink-hard-case.htm
• http://www.clearweld.com/how.aspx
• http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_GB/3MTechnologies/Home?WT.ac=TechnologiesGSNFloatHea
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