Industrial ecology to plan and design industrial areas
- Autores: María del Carmen Ruiz Puente, Inmaculada Fernández Diego
- Localización: Selected Proceedings from the 13th International Congress on Project Engineering: Badajoz, July 2009, 2010, ISBN 978-84-614-0185-7, págs. 188-196
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The planning and design of an industrial park are a complicated process due to the number of stakeholders concerned and time taken because of the own magnitude of the action: location selection and planning, physical infrastructures and industrial facilities design, building design, construction, operation, and management systems and disassembling-deconstruction design. Environmental criteria throughout all the design steps are fundamental to guarantee a long lifespan operation and the coexistence with surroundings in where the park is located. In this communication, the framework, concept and types of Eco-Industrial Parks (EIP�s) have been analyzed. The study led to the industrial ecology as the main strategy to obtain a new model based on a sustainable economy. Different types of EIP�s have been established according to the geographic scale of the industrial system. This offers new challenges and opportunities of searching strategies and alternative solutions for the resources consumption efficiency, negative environmental impacts minimization and economic benefit maximisation.
