REVISTA DYNA ENERGÍA

Key words:

Sostenibilidad, Ecodiseño, Modelo Genómico de Ecodiseño y Ecoinnovación, C2C, LEED, Análisis de Ciclo de Vida, Análisis de Flujo de Materiales y Sustancias, Análisis Energético, Certificaciones Ambientales, Sustainability, Ecodesign, Genomic Model of Ecodesign and Eco-innovation, C2C, LEED, Life Cycle Assessment, Material and substance flow analysis, energy analysis, environmental certifications.

Article type:

ARTICULO DE INVESTIGACION / RESEARCH ARTICLE

Section:

RESEARCH ARTICLES

The Genomic Model of Ecodesign and Eco-innovation (MGE2) proposes a methodology to design sustainable products and systems within the C2C paradigm; its main objective is to optimize any system interactions with the environment, taking into account the circular economy's perspective (in other words, it promotes the economy change from charity to abundance). In its first phase, a set of techniques were integrated in a generic model, in which the ecological was the most developed dimension (with it was possible to obtain metabolizable and eco-friendly products and systems).
This paper describes the second phase of our research in which the MGE2 is broadened through the integration of different techniques with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), all of these in order to assess ecological sustainability of products and systems, including also economy and equity dimensions with a comprehensively and completely method. Material and substance flow analysis widen ecological assessment; they separated all the flows involved in the system (including control impacts, toxicity control, closed-loop metabolic analysis - of biological and technics materials-, energy analysis, flow analysis waste and end of life management); eco-costs are taken as basic measurement units to make visible product's environmental impact and its interaction with the environment is studied throughout the life cycle with the aim to define social product responsibility.
Finally, current developments in environmental certification field are considered; MGE2 keeps ISO and C2C certification to design and evaluate products, which can be integrated in built environment with LEED requirements. This possibility makes MGE2 in a complete methodology of engineering that creates a product-building symbiosis and promotes the industrial ecology's holistic principle.