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Design for the environment. Design for the environment (DfE) is a design approach to reduce the overall human health and environmental impact of a product, process or service, where impacts are considered across its life cycle. Different software tools have been developed to assist designers in finding optimized products or processes/services.
History. EPA's Safer Choice Program is a renaming of the Design for the Environment (DfE) Safer Product Labeling Program. DfE began in the early 1990s as an innovative, voluntary program to help companies consider human health, environmental, and economic effects of chemicals and technologies. [2] DfE started the Safer Product Labeling Program ...
Since its founding in 1989, Green Seal has developed environmental standards for hundreds of categories of products and services. [1] Green Seal published a series of buying guides for purchasers in the 1990s (the Choose Green Reports) and at that time began providing technical assistance to Federal, State, and local governments and other institutions' environmental purchasing, operations, and ...
The Department for Education (DfE) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for child protection , child services , education (compulsory, further, and higher education), apprenticeships , and wider skills in England .
Design-focused evaluation (DFE) is an approach to the evaluation of educational quality. In DFE, the evaluation specifically focuses on the effectiveness of the constructive alignment in the course (subject, paper, unit) design. DFE was developed for use in the higher education sector. However, it has relevance in training environments also ...
Sustainable design standards. Design standards, reference standards and performance standards are familiar throughout business and industry, virtually for anything that is definable. Sustainable design, taken as reducing our impact on the earth and making things better at the same time, is in the process of becoming defined.
BS 5400 for steel, concrete and composite bridges. BS 5499 for graphical symbols and signs in building construction; including shape, colour and layout. BS 5544 for anti-bandit glazing (glazing resistant to manual attack) BS 5750 for quality management, the ancestor of ISO 9000.
Green engineering approaches the design of products and processes by applying financially and technologically feasible principles to achieve one or more of the following goals: (1) decrease in the amount of pollution that is generated by a construction or operation of a facility, (2) minimization of human population exposure to potential hazards (including reducing toxicity), (3) improved uses ...