Welcome to the second of six issues in 2016. This issue consists of six papers. The first paper by Fard et al. utilises environmental, economic and social consideration to improve site selection decisions for locating cement plants in Florida.
The remaining five papers focus on the transferable knowledge in sustainable engineering design, in particular with respect to recycling considerations. The paper by Pajunen et al. aims to address recycling challenges by incorporating life cycle thinking and the know-how about the material recovery properties into the design phase of a product as opposed to its end-of-life. Their approach stems from both material development and market economy perspectives.
The third paper in this issue by Suresh et al. continues with the theme of sustainable design by presenting a case study involving a charge alternator pulley, highlighting that the integration of Design for Environment (DFE) and Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) concepts has the potential to reduce both product development cost and its environmental impact.
The next paper by Rivera and Lallmahomed provides a literature review that explores the implications of planned obsolescence and the associated product lifetime on the environmental impact of products. The fifth paper by Paterson et al. analyses industry’s attempt to recycle and remanufacture the production and end-of-life wastes from Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic, with an emphasis on the terminology used to describe these practices.
This issue concludes with the paper by Ng and Chuah that presents an approach for decision makers to evaluate the environmental impact of various design options by integrating the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Theory, with Evidential Reasoning (ER).
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