TY - NEWS
TI - Proposal to foster sustainability through circular economy based engineering: a profiteble chain from waste management to tunnel lighting
AU - molina, valentin
AU - Leyva Diaz, Juan Carlos
AU - Sanchez Molina, Jorge
AU - Peña García, Antonio Manuel
AB - 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.
DA - 2017-12-02
KW - Sustainability
KW - lighting
KW - waste management
KW - infrastructures
KW - energy savings
KW - raw materials
KW - CO2 emission
KW - circular economy
PB - Sustainability
UR - https://repositorio.ufps.edu.co/handle/ufps/672
ER -