[Design and Technology] A tool for "sustainable design" - for yourinterest

[Faye Moriarty]

Would this include textiles materials as well?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Philip Cranswick 
  To: syseng at edulists.com.au ; destech at edulists.com.au 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:48 PM
  Subject: [Design and Technology] A tool for "sustainable design" - for yourinterest


  Hi everyone,

   

  I thought some of you may be interested in reading the attached brochures; when you have a moment.

   

  As an enthusiast of sustainable design, I am excited about a new component of Solidworks 2010 (an engineering design CAD software) that gives designers the ability to choose environmentally sustainable materials for their products. So now when students allocate a material to a computer model, they can have a fuller understanding of the environmental impact of their design. 

   

  The new Solidworks has a functionality called, Solidworks Sustainability Xpress, that  considers how and where materials are produced, parts are manufactured, and products are used and discarded. It's a built in data base that gets automatically updated as newer materials become available. It's just what I want my students to consider as a part of their "designing" process, as they move away from the old unsustainable "Cradle to Grave" design model to a "Cradle to Cradle" design model - that aims for zero waste; materials are either food for microorganisms or kept in closed cycles within industry.

   

  Regards, 

   

  Philip Cranswick - Technology

   

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  "Products can be designed from beginning to end to become "food" for either biological or technological metabolisms".  

   

  "The goal is zero: zero waste, zero emissions, zero ecological footprint."  

   

  "Cradle to Cradle Design - putting eco-effectiveness into practice". 

   

  - William McDonough & Michael Braungart

   

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