BS 8887
Standard Industrial Classification of Organisations that have bought BS 8887-1
Thursday, May 13th, 2010On the 30th March 2010 the first full peer reviewed journal article resulting from this research was published. The paper appears in the Taylor and Francis publication, the International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, produced by Loughborough University. The article is entitled Design Standards for Product End-of-Life Processing. It can be downloaded from the publisher by [...]
MADE at “Sustainable Innovation ‘09″
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009The Sustainable Innovation Conference is an annual event organised by Martin Charter and Ros Carruthers of the University for the Creative Arts. This year it was held in a particularly beautiful and splendid venue namely Farnham Castle. The conference was a great success and well attended. It featured many expert speakers discussing various facets of [...]
Environmentally Sensitive Design Research Structure Presentation
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Summary: BS8887 Manufacture Assembly Disassembly and End-of-Life Processing (MADE) was first published in 2006 with the purpose of reducing the damaging impacts of manufactured products through the inclusion of environmentally sensitive design principles during the early phase of new product development. Methods for evaluating the standard’s acceptance and implementation by organisations that have purchased it, [...]
PhD Research Proposal
Monday, September 1st, 2008Document first created: 27/8/08 Author: Alex Plant Revision: 3 Title of research project An evaluation of industry’s acceptance and implementation of BS8887 and its influence upon sustainable industrial design Background The mineral resources of our planet are continually extracted and used to manufacture goods and products that are sold through vast retail networks. At the [...]
