Proposal to foster sustainability through circular economy based engineering: a profiteble chain from waste management to tunnel lighting
The increasing demands of infrastructures in terms of energy consumption, raw material demand, greenhouse gas emissions, waste management, treatment of components after their lifetime period, and financial costs are nowadays a serious threat for sustainability. Given that the resources are limited,...
- Autores:
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molina, valentin
Leyva Diaz, Juan Carlos
Sanchez Molina, Jorge
Peña García, Antonio Manuel
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2017
- Institución:
- Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio Digital UFPS
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.ufps.edu.co:ufps/672
- Acceso en línea:
- http://repositorio.ufps.edu.co/handle/ufps/672
- Palabra clave:
- Sustainability
lighting
waste management
infrastructures
energy savings
raw materials
CO2 emission
circular economy
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0)
| Summary: | The increasing demands of infrastructures in terms of energy consumption, raw material demand, greenhouse gas emissions, waste management, treatment of components after their lifetime period, and financial costs are nowadays a serious threat for sustainability. Given that the resources are limited, it is difficult to ensure an accurate level of well-being for future generations. For this reason, new perspectives in design, production and consumption are necessary. In this work, the principles of circular economy are applied to concrete branches of engineering. Departing from a design orientated to new uses after life period of infrastructures, a circular economy-aimed engineering makes possible the connection and mutual profit of such different branches like waste management and tunnel lighting. The benefits in environmental and financial terms are a strong argument in favor of a stronger link between engineering and circular economy. |
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