ANSI Workshop - Toward Product Standards for Sustainability
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Civil Engineering Construction Engineering Electrical Engineering Engineering Management Environmental Engineering Green Design and Sustainable Engineering Industrial Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Materials Engineering Mechanical Engineering |
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Teaching - Lecture/Presentation |
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Organization:ANSI - American National Standards Institute |
| Description: | Conference website has a link to visuals of all presentations. With the support of the Environmental Protection Agency, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) organized the first ANSI Workshop Toward Product Standards for Sustainability to focus on issues related to sustainability and environmental performance standards for products. The workshop offered a neutral venue where all interested stakeholders can engage in discussions that will support and facilitate the timely development, promulgation, and use of standards to address sustainability issues related to products. 240 individuals attended in person during the two-day workshop, and nearly 100 more participated by teleconference and webinar. |
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| Keywords: | sustainability standards |
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(a) Apply mathematics, science, and engineering (c) Design a system, component, or process (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
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Questions discussed include: Characteristics of a Robust & Effective Product Standard for Sustainability * What type of guidance would be most valuable in steering the development of credible product standards that address sustainability issues? From whom? * What are the most important attributes to consider with respect to the development of product standards that consider/address sustainability? How are these different attributes being weighted? How should they be? * How or to what degree should LCA and risk/hazard assessment issues be addressed? * How do you ensure that there are measurable environmental and societal outcomes? * What is most needed to help increase the creation of credible and robust product standards that consider/address sustainability? ANSI's mission is: To enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity. |
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Medium |
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Very low |
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| Publication Date: | April 2009 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.ansi.org/meetings_events/events/sustainable_products_s |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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CARES
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