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GBE Products and Product Designers Disciplines
GBE Products and Product Designers
About:
Life Cycle Stages of a product and the sustainability issues that arise at each stage
Asked by John Bullock who was writing a magazine article, for a list of issues at all stages of an product’s life cycle where environmental choices can be made.
The original enquiry was about an LED light but I have broadened out this version
1 Feedback loop from previous model:
- Wish Lists (compiled during previous design/production)
- Failure modes (Potential Maintenance Schedule item)
- Failure frequency
- Post Occupancy Evaluation (is it working in the building?)
- Improvement opportunities:
- New legislation, (EU Directives and national implementation Regulations)
- Industry and Sector Initiatives (e.g. PAS Publicly Available Standards)
- SubsPort Substitution Portal (Chemical Substitution Case Studies)
- End Of Life Reuse Barriers (E.g. Bespoke v Modular sizes; Not demountable fasteners, not flat packable)
- End Of Life Improvement Opportunities (e.g. Food Chill Cabinets Insulation Upgrades, reduced thickness, increased shelf space)
- GBE Compare Group comparison (Benchmarking)
- GBE Compare Conclusions (identifying Average Product in sector and how some are better or worse)
- KPI Key Performance Indicators
- EPI Environmental Performance Indicators
- SPI Social Performance Indicators
2 Design briefing:
- Solution to a Problem
- Design life to match service life
- Durability
- Reliability
- Ownership models
- TCO Total cost of ownership
- CAPEX + OPEX = TOTEX
- Green labels
- GBE HERACEY ™
- Healthy
- Environmental
- Resourceful
- Appropriate
- Competency
- Effectiveness
- Yardstick
- Benchmarking
- Energy efficiency
- Water efficiency
- Water Footprint
- Transport efficiency
- C2C Cradle to Cradle
- Zhaga compliance (LED Lights replaceable parts v throw whole away when failed)
- Chemical Footprint
- CHIP (Transport hazard labelling)
- Low allergy
- Low VOC
- COSHH (Chemicals)
- RoHS (Electrical and Electronic)
- REACH (Chemicals)
- SubsPort (Substitution Portal)
- ODP Ozone Depletion Potential
- GWP Global Warming Potential
- CPD Construction Products Directive
- Essential Requirements
- LCA Life Cycle Assessment
- Marginal Analysis
- GBE Detox (Chemical Substitution)
- EPD Environmental Product Declaration
3 Design development:
- Design Standards
- Performance Standards
- Properties
- Competency
- Fit for purpose
- Robustness
- Strength and Stability
- Durability
- Materials
- Materials Standards
- Appropriate
- Competent
- Resourceful
- C2C principles
- LCA Life Cycle Analysis
- Marginal analysis
- GBE Detox
- Substitution management
- SubsPort Substitution Portal
- Prototypes
- Components
- Modular design for rearrangement
- Methods of assembly
- Avoidance of Adhesives
- Mechanical connectors
- Design for better assembly
- standardized fasteners
- E.g. IAMECO Computers
- Design for deconstruction/disassembly
- Design for upgradability
- Design for reparability
- Design for reassembly
- Adaptability
- Services integration and management
- Looms
- Modularity
- Connections
- Accessibility
4 Manufacturer:
- CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
- ISO 26000
- GreenSpecLight Compass http://www.jb-ld.co.uk/links/GreenSpec+Light
- ISO 9000 (Quality Assurance)
- FPC Factory production Control
- ISO 14000 (Environmental)
- EMAS
- ISO 26000
- CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
- ISO 50000 etc.
- Energy Management
- ESOS Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme
- Energy sources
- Carbon Audits
- Renewable energy
- Water sources
- Resources
- Local sourcing
- PPR Packaging Producer Responsibilities
- CRC Carbon Reduction Commitment
4.1 Marketing:
- Annual Reporting
- Economic
- Environmental
- Social
- CSR
- Sustainability Policy
- Sustainability Strategy
- Sustainability Tactics
- Sustainability Actions
- Greenwash Checks
- Advertising
- Literature
- Guarantees
- User manuals
- FM Maintenance Specification
- Maintainability
- Spares availability and awareness
- Repair manuals available online
- Repair service
- Website
- PDS Product Data Sheet
- BIM PDS
- COBie PDS
- EPD
5 Manufacture:
- Resource efficiency/effectivness
- Energy efficiency
- Transport efficiency
- C2C
- Equipment
- Low Carbon Energy sources
- Energy Footprint
- Carbon footprint
- Emissions
- Chemical Footprint
- REACH
- Process waste as fuel or feedstock or by-product
- Catalysts
- Recycled heat
- Water sources
- Waste
- Waste Footprint
- By-products
- Co-products
6 Packaging:
- C2C
- protection
- Weather
- Vibration
- Separation
- Packing efficiency
- Pallet stacking modularity
- Pallet stacking stability
- Resource efficiency/effectiveness
- Packaging Producer Responsibilities
- Simple singular material
- simplification to make and unmake
- Avoidance of bonding
- Materials
- Methods
- reclaim/return/reuse > segregate/recycle
- PRNs Packaging Return Notes
- Green Dot (Packaging Certification)
- Packaging Innovation
7 Transport:
- Vehicles
- Trucks
- trains
- ships
- Planes
- CHIP (Chemicals in Transport)
- Shipping containers
- pallet packing
- pallet content stability
- Timber
- EUTR
- alternative materials
- Timber
- Recycled Plastics
- Bio-based
- Pallets, Pallet Boxes and Crates
- Fuel
- Driving style
- Driver fuel efficiency
- Logistics and appropriate vehicle size
- Packaging return on multiple deliveries
8 Logistics:
- Demand Chain v Supply Chain
- CHIP (Chemicals in transport)
- JIT Just in Time (manufacturing) v JIC Just in Case (Construction)
- KANBAN (JIT materials stock controls)
- Pre-ordering for daily deliveries
- Manual handling
- Packaging reduction
- Construction Consolidation Centres
- supply > demand chain
- pre-ordering
- milk rounds
- Pinpoint deliveries
- Pallet, packaging defects & excess returns
- pigeon holes for late deliveries
9 Installation:
- Lean thinking
- Demand chain rather than Supply chain
- preorders for JIT
- Manual handling
- KANBAN working platforms
- Construction or assembly
- Materials supply logistics
- JIT Just in Time
- PRNs Packaging Return Notes
10 Facilities management:
- MOBS Managing and Occupying Buildings Sustainably
- cleaning and cleaning methods and materials
- COBie Product Data Sheet
- CDM
- controls
- failure and replacement warning systems
- KANBAN ordering systems
- replacements
- collections
- WEEE compliance
- schemes
- waste containers
- methods
- Collection points
- residual waste
11 Refurbishment:
- Pre-alteration audits
- Ska EAM for fit-out and refit
- Ska Good Practice Measures Life Cycle Impacts Specialist Furniture
- Strip out
- H&S associated with reclaim and collection
- Provenance
- Product Passport
- BIM Product Data Sheet
- materials exchange
- resale
- reuse
12: End of life
- Deconstruction
- Demount ability
- Stack ability
- Reclamation
- Provenance
- WTN Waste Transfer Notes
- Duty of Care
- Resale
- Material Exchange Centres
- NISP National Industry Symbiosis Programme
- Reuse
- Remanufacture
- CRR Centre for Remanufacturer and Reuse
- Return to owner
- Donate to Charity
- Treatment
- WEEE (Electrical and Electronic)
- Segregation
- Recycling
- Waste handling licences
- Landfill Gate cots
- Landfill tax
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
1st August 2013 – 3rd December 2015
Includes NGS residual pages
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8th August 2013 – 3rd December 2015
GBE Products and Product Designers
See Also:
GBE Jargon Buster
- C2C
- C2CN
- CAP’EM
- CCC
- CDM
- CHIP
- COMPASS
- COSHH
- CSR
- EPD
- EPI
- EWC
- EUTR
- FSC
- H&S
- HERACEY™
- JIC
- JIT
- JIT v JIC
- KPI
- LCA
- MASS
- MOBS
- NISP
- ODP
- PASS
- PRN
- REACH
- RoHS
- SIN
- SPI
- SubsPort
- TCO
- VOC
- WTN
- Alternative materials
- CAP’EM Detox
- cleaning
- collections
- COMPany ASsesment Scheme (GreenSpecLight Compass)
- Construction Product Assessment System (CAP’EM Compass)
- Components
- Construction Consolidation Centres (CCC)
- controls
- Control Of Susbstances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
- Cradle to Cradle (C2C)
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in companies
- Deconstruction
- Demand chain
- Demolition
- Demolition Protocol
- Design briefing
- Design development
- Design for Better Assembly
- Design for Deconstruction
- Design Life
- Duty of care
- Durability
- Eco Labels
- Energy efficiency
- Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI)
- Environmental Product Declararion (EPD)
- Essential requirements
- Facilities management
- Failure modes
- Feedback loop
- Green Labels
- GreenSpecLight COMPASS
- H&S associated with reclaim and collection
- Healthy
- improvement opportunities
- industry initiatives
- Installation
- ISO 14000
- ISO 9000
- ISO 26000
- ISO 50000
- Just in Case (JIC)
- Just in Time (JIT)
- KANBAN
- KANBAN working platforms
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Landfill Gate costs
- Landfill tax
- Lean thinking
- Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
- Logistics
- Low Allergy
- Low VOC
- Materials
- materials exchange
- methods
- Manual handling
- Manufacture
- Manufacturer
- Marginal analysis
- Materials
- materials supply
- Methods
- methods of assembly
- milk rounds
- Managing & Occupying Building Sustainably (MOBS)
- Material Assessment Sustainability Screening (MASS)
- Natioanl industry Symbiosis Programme (NISP)
- NGS COMPARE
- Ownership models
- Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP)
- Packaging
- Pallets
- pallet packing
- pallet content stability
- Pre-alteration audits,
- preordering
- preorders
- Product Accessory System Screening (PASS)
- Product Passport
- properties
- protection
- Provenance
- reclaim/reuse/recycle/return
- Refurbishments
- Reliability
- replacements
- resale
- residual waste
- Resource efficiency/effectiveness
- returns
- reuse
- Robustness
- RoHS
- schemes
- ships
- Shipping containers
- simplification to make and unmake
- Ska
- Social Performance Indicators (SPI)
- Soft Strip
- stacking
- Strip out
- SubsPort (Substitution Portal)
- Substitute It Now (SIN)
- Supply chain
- Timber
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- trains
- Transport
- Transport efficiency
- Trucks
- Water efficiency
- WEEE compliance
- Wish List
- Zhaga compliance
GBE Projects
GBE Collaborative Services
- GBE PASS Product Accessories System Screening
- GBE MASS Material Assessment Sustainability Screening
- GBE BEST Building Element Sustainability Test
- GBE GBS Declaration of REACH Requirements
- GBE GBS Specification
- GBE Echo Environmental Claim: Confirmation Of Self-Declaration ISO 14021
- GBE Collaborator’s Services
- GBE Product Passport
CAPEM Collaborative Services
- CAPEM Compass
- CAPEM LCA
- CAPEM EPD
- CAPEM Individual impacts
- CAPEM DeTox
- CAPEM Product Data Sheet
GBE CPD
Themes:
- Waste
- Packaging
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
1st August 2013 – 3rd December 2015