Sustainable New Product Development: a decision-making tool for the construction industry
During the last decades, environmental sustainability has acquired growing importance in different productive sectors. The construction sector, aware of its environmental impacts, searches for mitigation within both processes and inputs. One of these mitigation strategies is the recycling of constru...
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| author | Morgane Bigolin Ângela De Moura Ferreira Danilevicz Marc A. Weiss Luiz Carlos Pinto Silva Filho |
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| description | During the last decades, environmental sustainability has acquired growing importance in different productive sectors. The construction sector, aware of its environmental impacts, searches for mitigation within both processes and inputs. One of these mitigation strategies is the recycling of construction and demolition waste within the production chain. This paper deals with the proposition and application of a systematic decision-making tool in the context of the construction industry. The proposed procedure introduces a tool for Sustainable New Product Development using Quality Function Deployment to analyse the use of recycled aggregate for making concrete blocks in a multivariate context. That tool allows requirements identification and prioritisation considering the perspectives of both customers and developers, as well as standards and environmental aspects. Some results of a real case application are presented, and the benefits and potential barriers related to its adoption are discussed. These results contributed to the identification of trade-offs associated with the challenge of comparing alternative construction materials. It was also possible to identify that the use of recycled materials does not necessarily ensure that a product is more environmentally friendly than others. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dadd265d59c847c59d17c4ae126465472023-09-21T15:17:04ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Sustainable Engineering1939-70381939-70462021-07-0114461862910.1080/19397038.2021.19206421920642Sustainable New Product Development: a decision-making tool for the construction industryMorgane Bigolin0Ângela De Moura Ferreira Danilevicz1Marc A. Weiss2Luiz Carlos Pinto Silva Filho3Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Laboratory of Tests and Structural ModelsFederal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Laboratory of Product and Process Optimization (LOPP)Global Urban Development, and Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, ZISPOA ProjectFederal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Laboratory of Tests and Structural ModelsDuring the last decades, environmental sustainability has acquired growing importance in different productive sectors. The construction sector, aware of its environmental impacts, searches for mitigation within both processes and inputs. One of these mitigation strategies is the recycling of construction and demolition waste within the production chain. This paper deals with the proposition and application of a systematic decision-making tool in the context of the construction industry. The proposed procedure introduces a tool for Sustainable New Product Development using Quality Function Deployment to analyse the use of recycled aggregate for making concrete blocks in a multivariate context. That tool allows requirements identification and prioritisation considering the perspectives of both customers and developers, as well as standards and environmental aspects. Some results of a real case application are presented, and the benefits and potential barriers related to its adoption are discussed. These results contributed to the identification of trade-offs associated with the challenge of comparing alternative construction materials. It was also possible to identify that the use of recycled materials does not necessarily ensure that a product is more environmentally friendly than others.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19397038.2021.1920642construction and demolition waste (c&dw)quality function deployment (qfd)sustainable new product development (snpd)performance indicators |
| spellingShingle | Morgane Bigolin Ângela De Moura Ferreira Danilevicz Marc A. Weiss Luiz Carlos Pinto Silva Filho Sustainable New Product Development: a decision-making tool for the construction industry International Journal of Sustainable Engineering construction and demolition waste (c&dw) quality function deployment (qfd) sustainable new product development (snpd) performance indicators |
| title | Sustainable New Product Development: a decision-making tool for the construction industry |
| title_full | Sustainable New Product Development: a decision-making tool for the construction industry |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable New Product Development: a decision-making tool for the construction industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable New Product Development: a decision-making tool for the construction industry |
| title_short | Sustainable New Product Development: a decision-making tool for the construction industry |
| title_sort | sustainable new product development a decision making tool for the construction industry |
| topic | construction and demolition waste (c&dw) quality function deployment (qfd) sustainable new product development (snpd) performance indicators |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19397038.2021.1920642 |
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