Editorial for the Special Issue on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing

Sustainable building design has become a hot topic over the past decades. Many standards, databases, and tools have been developed for achieving a sustainable building. Not until recently have the importance of structural engineering and its contribution to sustainable building design been full recognised. However, due to the highly fragmented and diversity of knowledge across building and infrastructure domains, there is a lack of approach that can address all the sustainable issues within the structural design. This paper reviews the sustainable design from the perspective of structural engineering: (1) reviewing the current situation; (2) identifying the gaps and difficulties; and (3) making recommendations for future improvements. The strategies and indicators, as well as BIM-enabled methodology, for sustainable structural design (SSD) are also discussed in a holistic way. The results of this investigation show that most of the methods are not doing well in terms of delivering a successful sustainable structural design. It is expected that the future BIM could probably provide such a platform to address these issues.

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Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2019

10.1007/978-981-13-9271-9 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Design ◽

Design And Manufacturing

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Mini Special Issue on Design and Manufacturing for Environmental Sustainability

International Journal of Automation Technology ◽

10.20965/ijat.2016.p0677 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 677-677

Author(s):

Yasushi Umeda ◽

Keyword(s):

Machine Tool ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Optimization Problems ◽

Operating Conditions ◽

Special Issue ◽

Environmentally Conscious ◽

Motion Extraction ◽

Design And Manufacturing ◽

Distributed Energy Generation ◽

Environmentally Conscious Design

As the third special issue on Design and Manufacturing for Environmental Sustainability for IJAT, this issue focuses on design and manufacturing theories and methodologies for achieving environmental sustainability and the topic of the special issue seems to be becoming established in this journal. This special issue contains six articles consisting of a wide variety of rather novel topics emerging in the domain of design and manufacturing for environmental sustainability. The first three deal with design problem in the broader sense: designing of system of systems taking distributed energy generation systems, upgradable design problems, and selection problem of end-of-life products recovery options integrated from the view of environmental load and cost. The last three papers deal with manufacturing problems in the broader sense – motion extraction problems for disassembly automation, machine tool energy efficiency, and optimization problems related to machine tool operating conditions for increasing environmental sustainability. Some papers, revised and extended at the editor’s request, were presented originally at EcoDesign 2015, the ninth international symposium on environmentally conscious design and inverse manufacturing, held in Tokyo, Japan, 2015. The editor thanks the authors and reviewers for their comprehensive efforts in making this special issue possible and hopes these articles will encourage further research on design and manufacturing for environmental sustainability.

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