Jorge Alexandre

ABSTRACT: This book is an output of the ERASMUS+ KATCH_e project. KATCH_e stands for “Knowledge Alliance on Product-Service Development towards Circular Economy and Sustainability in Higher Education”. This was a 3-year project (2017-2019), aiming to address the challenge of reinforcing skills and competences in Higher Education and within the business community, in the field of product-service development for the circular economy and sustainability, with a particular focus on the construction and furniture sectors.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The application of life cycle approaches – including life cycle assessment, ecodesign and environmental labelling – is becoming an increasing reality for business, and a growing challenge in many economic sectors. Businesses are facing increasing legal and market requirements to enhance resource efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of their products & services. To significantly address this challenge, the Life Cycle in Practice (LCiP) project was conceived, aiming to promote the uptake of LC approaches particularly in SMEs. The LCiP project helps SMEs in France, Belgium, Portugal and Spain reduce the environmental impacts of their products and services across the entire Life Cycle in three sectors: Buildings & Construction, Waste Management and Energy Equipment. LCiP’s specific objectives are to foster the widespread uptake of these approaches by SMEs beyond the duration of the project, by (i) Demonstrating the environmental and business benefits of applying LC Approaches ...

Este artigo foca as melhorias obtidas pela empresa MRodrigues, do sector metalomecânico, como resultado da aplicação da metodologia Valor Sustentável (VS), desenvolvida pelo INETI no âmbito do Projecto DEUSA 2 . A metodologia VS, seguindo uma estratégia de eco-eficiência empresarial e resultando da combinação entre Produção Mais Limpa e Análise do Valor e da ampla experiência de aplicação destas duas ferramentas de gestão, encoraja as empresas a tornarem-se mais competitivas, mais inovadoras e mais responsáveis, levando-as a repensarem continuamente as suas actividades e produtos numa perspectiva de sustentabilidade. A sua aplicação, procurando melhorar a produtividade de recursos, a eco-eficiência de processos e produtos, a competitividade e a satisfação das necessidades, tendo por base preocupações económicas, ambientais e sociais, resulta na criação de Valor Sustentável para as empresas. A empresa MRodrigues aplicou-a ao seu processo de fabrico, com resultados evidentes também ao...

Since the birth of Value Analysis (VA), during last century, by LD Miles all Value Management (VM) tools aim at increasing the Value of a VA subject, this being defined as the relationship between the satisfaction of needs and the resources used in achieving ...

INOVE was a regional partnership project and had two main goals: finding and helping to implement solutions for real business problems, in order to increase their competitiveness according to sustainable development; and dissemination of new concepts, ...

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Comunicació presentada al 19th European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP 2019) (October 15-18 2019, Barcelona)KATCH_e is a knowledge alliance between research centres, universities and companies to build competences in the field of product-service development for the circular economy and sustainability. This ERASMUS + funded project comprises eleven partners from Portugal, Spain, Austria and Denmark engaged in advancing knowledge and experiences in the transition from a linear economy to a circular and more sustainable economy, with a special focus in the construction and furniture sectors. There is nowadays a myriad of training courses, books, manuals, standards, reports, tools and all sorts of resources related to circular economy. Therefore, one of the main challenges for the consortium was to bring novelty to what is already available and this was achieved through (i) the systemizing of existing, disperse, knowledge, keeping in mind the applicability ...