Overview
- Discusses Life Cycle Approach (LCA) for designers to address environmental challenges through data-driven techniques
- Introduces readers to LCA-supported design solutions for ecological improvement
- Develops data quality improvement methodologies to affect positive environmental change
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book analyzes the human desire for consumption, and suggests design innovations for promoting "best practices". LCA tools, data, and methodologies are explained and offered as these potential innovations for affecting positive environmental change. As an underlying component of LCA, the book defines the energy essentials related to environmental problems, and how LCA design solutions must address these factors while also appealing to a designated client-base. The book also teaches designers how to consider corporate incentives for trusting LCA designs, such as investor confidence, loyalty, and consumer trust. The book will appeal to a broad range of designers interested in sustainable and data-driven design, and may be utilized by non-LCA specialists in expanding their design perspectives and goals in the marketplace.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
John Cays is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Interim Director of the School of Art + Design in the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design. He is a licensed professional architect. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of the Arts and Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University.
Prior to co-founding GRADE Architects, an architecture and interior design firm in NYC in 2001, he was a project manager at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Since 2005 he has been responsible for overseeing the development and use of “Kepler,” NJIT’s transparent digital repository, and qualitative data driven course management and curricular assessment system. In 2008, Kepler served as the engine behind the nation's first fully digital NAAB accreditation visit. He served as North East Regional Director for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture from 2014 – 2017 and as a Director on the National Architectural Accrediting Board from 2017 – 2020.His research focuses on visualization, translation, and advocacy to increase the adoption and use of quantitative Life Cycle Assessment methods and tools in the design fields.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Environmental Life Cycle Approach to Design
Book Subtitle: LCA for Designers and the Design Market
Authors: John Cays
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63802-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63801-6Published: 20 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63804-7Published: 20 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63802-3Published: 19 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 216
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour
Topics: Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Climate Change, Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building, Sustainable Development, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences