Eco-redesign of lighting products

Casamayor, JL, Su, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9541-8869 and Wu, Y, 2022. Eco-redesign of lighting products. LEUKOS. ISSN 1550-2724

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Abstract

Although there are numerous published studies that have helped to enhance our understanding about methods or approaches to eco-design products, there are limited publications that focus on the study of eco-redesign of lighting products. Redesign of existing products is one of the most applied design-related activities in industry, and eco-redesign is one of the most suitable eco-design interventions that can be applied by manufacturers when they want to include environmental considerations in their existing products. This type of eco-design intervention is incremental, which typically means less change, and therefore, lower investments of time, money, and correspondent risks. It consists of selecting an existing product from a given portfolio and redesigning it to reduce its environmental impact. This paper presents and demonstrates, with an example of a manufacturing company, a method to eco-redesign lighting products. The method is based in the iterative combination of an analysis-synthesis approach involving: (1) Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to assess the environmental impact of the lighting product, (2) Identification of the specific issues which typically cause the impact in the product life cycle stages and components, and (3) Specific eco-lighting design strategies to address the areas of impact (and causes of that impact) identified with the LCA. This method can be applied as a stand-alone method or be integrated into existing design and development processes and methods already used by companies, to facilitate its adoption, and hence impact. Insights and limitations after the application of the method are also discussed.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	LEUKOS
Creators:	Casamayor, J.L., Su, D. and Wu, Y.
Publisher:	Informa UK Limited
Date:	26 December 2022
ISSN:	1550-2724
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/15502724.2022.2131437 DOI 1631506 Other
Rights:	© 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	09 Jan 2023 10:19
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2023 10:19
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/47771

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