Main Objective:
This Workshop was organized to become a vehicle for promoting the use of science-based tools and the industrial ecology approach in setting sustainability targets and in the design and evaluation of the built environment that comprises materials, buildings, structures and urban systems.
Detailed specific objectives:
- To present methodologies for using industrial ecology tools when evaluating new materials, alternative structural designs, and innovative urban systems in view of a comprehensive set of environmental, social, and economic indicators for developing and developed countries
- To present case studies in which innovations have led to dramatic improvements in our built environment sustainability (measured through industrial ecology tools), and to show where these innovations are best leveragedü
- To discuss the sustainability of advanced engineered materials, structures and urban systems based on investments and derived economic incentives
- To discuss how developed and developing countries differ in their approaches to sustainability, and to consider the challenge in applying advanced modeling and design tools to developing countries
- To craft a research agenda for the future in the use of quantitative sustainability assessment tools and industrial ecology principles in the design, fabrication, and implementation of innovative materials, structures, and urban systems
- To engage practitioners from both Israel and US in shaping future sustainability design practice, methods, and tools
- To introduce and educate a new cadre of graduate students and young researchers that will continue to explore these unique interactions throughout their academic careers