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Designing Sustainable Factories

A Toolkit for the Assessment and Mitigation of Impact on the Landscape

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Authors:
  1. Lia Marchi

    1. Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  • Illustrates the benefits that a synergistic approach to factory landscape compatibility can bring
  • Presents a practical toolkit to assist companies in identifying and mitigating their negative effects
  • Includes 100 tactics for designing sustainable factories

Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 72)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. The Impact of Industrial Facilities on the Landscape

    • Lia Marchi
    Pages 1-12

  3. Level of Awareness and Economic Constraints as Barriers to Sustainable Factories

    • Lia Marchi
    Pages 13-23

  4. Potential Drivers of the Change

    • Lia Marchi
    Pages 25-39

  5. Pioneer Firms from the Agri-Food Industry

    • Lia Marchi
    Pages 41-52

  6. A Toolkit to Assess and Mitigate the Impact

    • Lia Marchi
    Pages 53-67

  7. Toolkit Implementation: An Italian Case Study

    • Lia Marchi
    Pages 69-79

  8. Conclusion

    • Lia Marchi
    Pages 81-86

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 87-218
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About this book

Economic constraints and lack of knowledge often prevent companies - especially small and medium enterprises - from harmonizing their facilities with the landscape. As a result, factories significantly impact the quality of our living environment, in terms of physical effects on the ecosystem, perceptual interferences with the surroundings, and disturbances on local communities. At both the design and maintenance stages, a set of appropriate tools can assist businesses in becoming more aware of their impacts and identifying possible mitigation strategies. The book presents an assessment tool and a library of inspiring design tactics for factories, with examples of the benefits and synergies for the environment, the scenery, the community, and the company itself. The purpose is to elicit more than a simple reflection about what a sustainable factory entails. It is rather to encourage and assist both businesses and designers in mitigating the impact of industrial facilities on the landscape as holistically as possible.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Lia Marchi

About the author

Lia Marchi is currently research fellow and adjunct professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna. In 2015 she graduated with honours in Architecture at the School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna. In 2020 she was awarded her Ph.D. in Architecture and Design Culture from the same University. Her primary disciplinary sector is Technology for Architecture, and she does research mainly in the field of green buildings and cities, in line with the Sustainable Development world challenge.

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