As concerns about population growth, global warming, resource scarcity, globalization, and environmental degradation have increased, it has become apparent that engineering design must be engaged more ...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become a cornerstone methodology for evaluating the environmental performance of the built environment. By quantifying impacts such as greenhouse-gas emissions, ...

Systems Thinking is a way of looking at the way things are made in the world and understanding how processes influence one another in a larger system. Linear thinking is a narrow way of looking at the ...

Products, processes, and systems should be designed for performance in a commercial “afterlife". Embedded entropy and complexity must be viewed as an investment when making design choices on recycle, ...