Eco-efficient value creation of residential street lighting systems by simultaneously analysing the value, the costs and the eco-costs during the design and engineering phase

In search of sustainable business models, product innovation must fulfil a double objective: the new product must have a higher (market) value, and at the same time a lower eco-burden. To achieve this objective, it is an imperative that the value, the total costs of ownership, and the eco-burden of a product are analysed at the beginning of...

Insulation or Smart Temperature Control for Domestic Heating: A Combined Analysis of the Costs, the Eco-Costs, the Customer Perceived Value, and the Rebound Effect of Energy Saving

Calculating the environmental benefits of energy saving systems in dwellings in a life cycle assessment (LCA) has two major issues, namely: how to deal with the customer behaviour and how to deal with rebound effects. Both issues are important for sustainable strategies. From a user-centred design perspective, two fundamentally different...

NAP to EVRS: a re-evaluation of the Dutch input and its impact on the realization of the European Vertical Reference System

Double degree of Master of Science in Applied Geophysics at Delft University of Technology, ETH Zürich and RWTH Aachen University. - In 2004, Rijkswaterstaat provided geopotential differences between the benchmarks of the Normaal Amsterdams Peil (NAP) network to the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) for the realization of the...

Designing a portable power network

This report describes the design process that led to the concept of the portable power network with the name ‘Volt city’. The project is executed for the Danish startup company Volt, that currently operates mostly in the festival market. They have developed a product service system in which people can get a mobile device charger at the start of...

Development of a new sustainable product for Blackstarbikes - using the eco-costs/value ratio

A new product development process for Blackstarbikes BV, a company in bamboo bicycles. An eco-efficient value creation method (with the use of the eco-costs/value ratio) is used to design a balance bicycle for young children.

Vepa: An Exploration towards sustainability and the development of an eco-efficient office storage unit

Through the use of eco-label guidelines, eco-design guidelines, and LCA-based environmental impact and sustainability indicators like Eco-costs, the Eco-cost to Value Ratio (EVR) and ReCiPe points, a boundary and baseline for new product development can be set to which an improvement can be measured. In addition to this the LCA based indicators...