Design For Sustainability
Enhanced designs using innovative approaches
Innovative thinking leads to innovative design. To meet the needs of project designers in today's increasingly competitive environment, Pembina has developed Design For Sustainability, a process that encourages organizations and individuals to stretch their thinking beyond the current engineering reality of "heat it, beat it, and treat it," to reach more elegant design solutions.
Sustainable solutions are ones that can reduce operating costs while maximizing social benefits and minimizing or eliminating environmental impacts, if not helping to actually restore the environment. Design For Sustainability involves identifying and integrating sustainable design concepts from a life-cycle perspective.
Why Design For Sustainability?
Designing for sustainability has helped some of Canada's leading energy companies to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. This novel approach to design unites the principles and frameworks devised by today's most innovative design thinkers to address the most significant sustainability issues associated with your product, project, or service.
By applying unique and innovative design prompts, Pembina Corporate Consulting will lead your design team through a process that will generate new ideas and challenge typical engineering approaches. Our process can unearth opportunities to improve a technical design by upgrading operating procedures, by substituting processes and materials, by reducing or eliminating wasted material, energy, and time — or all three.
Ultimately, Design For Sustainability enhances the long-term environmental, social, and economic performance of your organization's technologies, process activities, and choices of materials, through their entire life cycle. As an advocate for sustainable change, The Pembina Institute ensures that the tough questions are asked, and the limits of traditional thinking are pushed — all to help your company create the best design possible.
Who do I contact about Design for Sustainability?
To start implementing sustainable design concepts at your company, contact:
