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The role of BIM in tackling obsolescence, climate change, and sustainability [PDF]
, 2015 Although the BIM technology is applicable to both new and existing buildings, it is arguably more established in the former than the latter. This is despite the fact that, in the UK alone, 70–80% of what has been built by 2010, is estimated to continue ...
Greenwood, David +14 more
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The Battery is the Message: Media Archaeology as an Energy Art Practice
communication +1, 2019 This text is an investigation of battery technologies and planned obsolescence in the context of energy consumption, electronic waste and environmental crisis as brought on by current communication technologies. Tracing the battery’s formative histories,
Samir Bhowmik
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Value Analysis, Value Engineering and Value Management in Global Competition
SymphonyaCost analysis is a method to enhance the costs efficiency by evaluating the corporate profitability. In today business environment of global competition, war pressures, new markets and demographics, firms are changing their approach to cost control.
Silvio M. Brondoni
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Estimating obsolescence risk from demand data - a case study [PDF]
In this paper obsolescence of service parts is analyzed in a practical environment. Basedon the analysis, we propose a method that can be used to estimate the risk of obsolescenceof service parts. The method distinguishes groups of service parts.
Jaarsveld, W.L. van
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Communication about Planned Obsolescence as an Atypical Two-sided Message [PDF]
, 2012 While many information technology vendors deliberately cut their products’ lifecycles to elicit repeat purchases, consumers are often unaware of such planned obsolescence.
Goethals, Frank +2 more
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, 2017 Our today‘s society is often called a ‘throwaway society’, based on a linear ‘take-make-use-dispose’ economy. Many studies point out that median lifespans of certain consumer products are in decline.
Michel, Anaïs, Michel, A.
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Planned obsolescence and consumer protection
Law, State and Telecommunications Review, 2019 Purpose – The text addresses the problem of planned obsolescence from the point of view of consumer protection, based on the decisions of Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato which condemned Samsung and Apple on the grounds of the prohibition of unfair commercial practices.
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QUALITY, OBSOLESCENCE AND UNSUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
Ekonomski Vjesnik, 2015 One of the negative side effects of the consumer society and the increasing number of consumer goods available to the average household is the intransparency of product quality, especially product lifetime. There are many examples on failing products and
Rudi Kurz
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Mix SustentávelThe rapid advancement of technology and current consumption patterns have intensified the environmental impacts associated with the obsolescence of electronic devices. In this context, sustainable product design emerges as a strategic tool to extend the
José Lucas Pereira Mendes +3 more
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THE LIFE CYCLE COST MANAGEMENT (LCCM) ASPECTS OF MAINTENANCE IN URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT (UPT) SYSTEMS, ARGUMENTS FOR A GUIDE OF TRAMS MODERNIZATION [PDF]
Journal of Sustainable Energy, 2015 Planned life cycle is determined by how deep operating and maintaining the infrastructure and public transport vehicles, reducing costs is optimized by adapting appropriate strategies.
CSUZI I.
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