Sustainable Design
At Oceanic Environmental Services, we can create sustainable designs made from recycled or renewable materials that use less energy and cause less pollution. We produce a simple Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to predict the carbon emissions caused by making, shipping, using, and recycling products. We can estimate the energy it uses, and the pollution it would add to the atmosphere and water. We use this as a benchmark to improve the sustainable design or rethink it completely.
For example, we used an LCA to design a bird feeder. We created 4 CAD models, made from plastic, clay, metal, and wood, then calculated their environmental impacts.
Sustainable design For our environment
At Oceanic Environmental Services, we're committed to sustainable design principles that minimize environmental impact, promote social responsibility, and ensure economic viability. Our sustainable design approach considers the entire lifecycle of our assets, from conception to disposal.
- Minimize Environmental Impact.
- Use Sustainable Materials.
- Optimizing Resource Efficiency.
- Promoting Human Health and Wellbeing.
- Ensure Social Equity and Accessibility.
- Considering the Entire Lifecycle.
- Encouraging Recycling and Reuse.
- Use Renewable Energy Sources.
- Designing for Disassembly and Reuse.
- Continuous Monitoring and Improvement
We need our environment to provide clean air, a stable climate and healthy soil to grow food. We need clean water to drink, trees to make wood, minerals to convert and healthy wildlife to pollinate crops.
The majority of our cars cause air pollution, our clothes add plastic particles to water and our electronic products use up finite resources. If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of a modern society, we must act in a sustainable way which maintains global temperatures to within 1.5 degrees of pre-industrial levels.
Sustainability and energy efficiency legislation is now here. The EU Eco-design directive forces manufacturers to reduce the energy consumption of electrical goods and increase their life span to over 7 years while providing a professional repair service.