Investigation of a process to eco-design LED lighting products to enhance the adoption of eco-design methods and tools by industry

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Casamayor, J.L. and Su, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-9541-8869, 2021. Investigation of a process to eco-design LED lighting products to enhance the adoption of eco-design methods and tools by industry. Sustainability, 13 (8): 4512. ISSN 2071-1050

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084512

Abstract

To date, many studies have been carried out to develop new approaches and methods to eco-design products. However, these have not been implemented and adopted by industry as much as they should. A better understanding of real-world industrial eco-design and development processes, and the eco-design tools applied during these, could inform the development of more effective and applicable eco-design methods and tools, for generic as well as for specific product categories (e.g., LED lighting products). This paper addresses this issue by describing and examining a real-world process followed to design and develop a LED lighting product by a lighting manufacturer, via case study research. The case study involved direct participatory observation to gather the data and provided new insights about the stages of the design and development process, as well as the tools applied, which were examined and discussed to inform the improvement of existing methods and tools, or the development of better new methods and tools.

Item Type:

Journal article

Publication Title:

Sustainability

Creators:

Casamayor, J.L. and Su, D.

Publisher:

MDPI

Date:

19 April 2021

Volume:

Number:

ISSN:

2071-1050

Identifiers:

Number	Type
10.3390/su13084512	DOI
1432573	Other

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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Schools > School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment

Record created by:

Laura Ward

Date Added:

04 May 2021 10:24

Last Modified:

31 May 2021 15:03

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