An analysis of design strategies for circular economy through life cycle assessment

C Spreafico - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2022 - Springer
The goal of pursuing the circular economy (CE) is spreading more and more in industry, also
driven by the introduction of new regulations, considerably affecting product design …

Integrating environmental and economic perspectives in building design

P Schneider-Marin, A Winkelkotte, W Lang - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
With increasing environmental damage and decreasing resource availability, sustainability
assessment in the building sector is gaining momentum. A literature review shows that the …

Improving the Process of Product Design in a Phase of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

A Pacana, D Siwiec, L Bednárová, J Petrovský - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The early phases of product development effect fundamental changes in products
throughout their life cycle. Therefore, the objective of the investigation was to develop a …

Quantifying the advantages of TRIZ in sustainability through life cycle assessment

C Spreafico - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of how much the application of the main TRIZ
(Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) strategies resulted in an …

Measuring the readiness of SMEs for eco-innovation and industrial symbiosis: development of a screening tool

DCA Pigosso, A Schmiegelow, MM Andersen - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Despite the high business, innovation and sustainability potential linked with eco-innovation
and industrial symbiosis, limited implementation can be observed in small and medium …

Eco-innovation in process engineering: contradictions, inventive principles and methods

P Livotov, APC Sekaran, R Law, D Reay… - Thermal Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Economic growth and ecological problems motivate industries to apply eco-friendly
technologies and equipment. However, environmental impact, followed by energy and …

A Systematic Robust Design Method to Reduce Products' Environmental Impact Variations

C Spreafico - Knowledge, 2022 - mdpi.com
Reducing the environmental impact of a device arising from unexpected failures should be
an environmental goal. However, this problem can be difficult to tackle, especially due to the …

Modular furniture made from corrugated box waste using design for environment guidelines

N Hartono, A Christiani… - Journal of Environmental …, 2019 - scholarhub.ui.ac.id
Solid wastes at PT Pertamina in Jakarta were dominated by the corrugated box, so this
research aims to utilize PT Pertamina's corrugated box waste into furniture using Design for …

A Simplified TRIZ Approach Involving Technology Transfer for Reducing Product Energy Consumption

D Russo, C Spreafico, M Spreafico - … of the 7th International Conference on …, 2020 - Springer
The literature is full of attempts to integrate eco-improvement and problem solving methods.
Practically, no generalist problem solving method is born with a specific green purpose; …

An investigation of the relations on business areas and recycled materials in circular economy

M Spreafico, PE Fayemi, G Bersano - Sustainable Design and …, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents a semi-automated state of the art related to the concept of circular
economy and focuses on technical problems identification methods based on syntactic …