Engaging schools in the science of low-energy buildings [PDF]
, 2012 This article explores the relationship between the previous UK government’s initiative to rebuild and renew secondary schools, and the requirement for improved education for sustainable development in the UK.
Charnley, Fiona +5 more
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Sustainable by design: An organizational design tool for sustainable business model innovation
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 When firms want to meet ambitious sustainability targets, they often fail to deliver on more radical innovation at the level of the business model. They often struggle to design and successfully implement new, sustainable business models in practice. While sustainability tools might help bridge the design-implementation gap in business, they often lack
Matthew Coffay, Nancy Bocken
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Breaking free from the unsustainable now [PDF]
, 2003 This paper challenges the traditional concept of 'the product' in our contemporary addictive consumer society and embarks on an interdisciplinary journey to design a way to break free from what we argue is the unsustainable now.
Grout, Ian, Kajzer, Ingrid
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The impact of the internal hydrophobisation on the properties and durability of cement-based materials [PDF]
MATEC Web of ConferencesThe presented study investigates the impact of internal hydrophobization by using an organosilicon admixture based on triethoxyoctylsilane on the properties and durability of cement-based materials.
Materak Kalina +2 more
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An Evaluation of Existing On-Line Learning & Teaching Resources for the Socio-Economic Aspects of Sustainable Design, New Perspectives in Design Education [PDF]
, 2008 This paper fits into the topic of eco-design education and explores questions related to the modern student’s perspective on design education and how we should consider the curricula from a future perspective.
Humphries-Smith, Tania
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Seeing sustainable futures: the potential of design education [PDF]
, 2002 The process of sustainable development requires us all to think differently about what we do, how we do it and why we do what we do. Questioning activities in the context of sustainability can often result in difficult and perhaps uncomfortable ...
Dewberry, Emma
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Sustainable Value Proposition Design in a Product-Service System [PDF]
, 2012 Many companies have started to add services to their tangible products in order to defend themselves from increased competition from low-cost economies.
Kristofer Nygren, Niclas Österlind
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An evaluation of the current urban design process in order to derive critical success factors for the creation of a potential new urban design process framework [PDF]
, 2015 The current urban design process is top-down, i.e., generally the urban designers or planners design the urban environment and at a later stage the community may have some involvement. There are serious criticisms of this process as it may not touch the “
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +3 more
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The development of competitive advantage through sustainable event management [PDF]
, 2011 Purpose: Whilst the debate rages between progressive and destructive considerations of economic development, this paper aims to develop thinking around the sustainable event and its contribution to competitive advantage.
James Musgrave, Stephen Henderson
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Sustainable Transportation System Design [PDF]
, 2019 As reducing the carbon footprint became one of the topmost concerns of the firms, Company X Turkey has a goal of transforming all of its operations in environmentally sustainable manner. Therefore, they specified their main goal as reducing yearly carbon emission levels of the company by five percent calculated in key performance indicator.
Utku, İ. Y. +6 more
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