Sustainable Design in Engineering

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Sustainable Design in Engineering

• ECE 0909.403 ECE 0909.504.03
• Lecture 2
• Global Climate Change The Underpinning Science
• Business and Industry Responses
• 8 September 2005
• Dr. Peter Mark Jansson PP PE

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Aims

• Discuss Weeks Articles HW 1
• Climate Change 2 talks
• The Business Response
• Understand the Increasingly Important Role the
  Environment Plays in Sustainable Enterprise

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Climate Change

• Dr. Janssons APS Lecture 24 Jan 2005
• Dr. Michael Oppenheimer Princeton Univ Wind
  Energy and Wildlife Lecture, 4 May 2005

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Threat or Opportunity?

• Business Responses
• Ignore
• Watch and Wait
• Strategise and Experiment
• Build Competitive Advantage

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Areas of Activity

• Eco-Innovation
• Profiting from Pollution Prevention
• Eco-Efficiency by Design
• Innovation
• Managing Change
• Systems, Stakeholders and Reporting
• Financial Sector

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Methods Elements of Design

• Manufactured Technology Translation of Ideas
  into Artefacts
• New Products
• Clean Slate Approach from scratch
• Major new recombination of design elements
• Minor modification of elements
• Existing Products
• Major or minor feature/element modifications

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Engineering Design Elements

• Motors Bearings
• Materials Fasteners/Joiners
• Mechanical Systems Electrical Systems
• Fluid Power Electronic Syst.
• Interconnects Motion Control
• CAD/CAM Other Misc.

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What Can Designers Do?

• D f X
• Design forX where X is
• Environment
• Re-Use
• Re-Manufacture or Disassembly
• Energy Efficiency
• Extended Product Life (gtgtMTBF)
• Combination(s) of the above

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Business Case Studies

• Scancem Energy Recovery
• Wessex Water
• BT
• Interface

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Scancem Energy Recovery http//www.scancem.com/

• Subsidiary of SCANCEM international marketer/mfgr
  of mineral based building materials
• gt2B in revenues, gt11,000 employees
• reduced use of fossil fuels by 70,000 tons/yr
• Progress 6 of all energy from rdf in 1996
• 14 acheived by 1998
• 70 reduction by 2002

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Wessex Water http//www.wessexwater.plc.uk/

• reduced over 10 of its energy requirements from
  its own renewable sources 18.9 Million - kWh
• biogas from sewage sludge
• small scale hydropower
• committed to outperform UK govt Kyoto targets
• by achieving 20 by 2005 and 50 by 2020

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British Telcomm http//www.bt.com/

• Cellular Phone - Product Take Back
• ECTEL -group of European equipment manufacturers
• BT Will Take Back ANY Manufacturers worn out
  cellular phone at any BT Shop
• For either disassembly, re-use, plastic
  recycling, precious metal recover, or granulation
  and smelting

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Interface http//216.1.140.49/us/

• One of Worlds Leading Carpet Makers
• Offers an innovative floor covering lease where
  customers do not own carpeting but rather lease
  it. Interface provides clean, maintained and new
  looking floor covering for a fixed annual lease.
  They recycle the fibres from worn out stock and
  keep the customer happy with a great looking
  floor.

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Other Case Studies - WBCSD

• http//www.wbcsd.ch/eedata/eecsindx.htm
• another 21 companies such as
• Xerox, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Electrolux and SC
  Johnson Wax

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Dow-Jones Sustainability Index

• to quantify the sustainability performance of an
  enterprise by focusing on a company's pursuit of
  sustainability opportunities
• meeting market demand for sustainable products
  and services
• the reduction, ideally avoidance, of
  sustainability risks and costs
• This assessment is in line with the five
  corporate sustainability principles -
• innovative technology
• corporate governance
• shareholder relations
• industrial leadership
• social well being
• that are focused on the integration of economic,
  ecological and social factors into business
  strategies.

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What Does it all Mean to Design Engineers?

• Keep on top of Sustainability dialogue
• Greater volatility in material and energy prices
  and supplies
• Compounded by more volatile weather
• Growth in Environmental Reporting and Indices
  (35 of top 250 report now)
• Strategic Opportunity for Early Movers

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Become Proactive in Your Future

• Policy changes toward sustainability
• Growth is not beneficial, development is.
• Carbon Tax/Credit system likely
• Biofuels Renewable development
• Population stabilization, efficient resource use,
  minimize nonrenewable depletion, prevent soil
  depletion, slow all exponentials

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Homework Assignment 2

• On Class website for Next Week
• Read articles answer queries
• Search ProquestTM Database
• Find 1 Article in last two Years
• Copy Article
• Summarize in 1 Paragraph
• Be Ready to Discuss
• Team Assignments for WebQuest