Engineering Sustainability: Critical Factors and Sustainable Practices

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Objective......................................................................................................................................2
Sustainability factors...................................................................................................................2
Critical factors.............................................................................................................................4
Summary..........................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Sustainability is a complex concept which keeps changing and evolving similar to the
development of design and business (Le Blanc 2015). Teams those are responsible for designing
the innovation as well as developing them is trying to expand the provided definition of
sustainability in order to introduce numerous strategies as well as amenities which help in
promoting a better life for people. It also helps in improving the performances as well as
operations of organizations. Most of the outcomes of advanced sustainability occur when human
labor and technology are integrated. These two factors are supported with the help of designing
various processes by combining analysis, benchmarking, modeling, alignment, research creative
visioning, education and marketing (Kates 2018). This report discusses regarding various
articles that have described about facts or processes that lead to sustainability of organizations.
The steps adopted by the organizations in order to maintain a sustainable environment.
Discussion
Objective
The main objective of this report is to examine the given case study on the basis of the
concept of sustainability. It also highlights the critical factors related to the sustainability of
environment. One more objective includes the speculation of current practices and examine how
important or helpful they would be in long run.
Sustainability factors
Sustainability can be defined as the ability of any organization or even an individual to
continue a specific behavior indefinitely. Some examples of these behavior include

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environmental sustainability which is defines as the capacity to maintain a particular rate of
usage of non renewable resources and use the renewable ones more (Barkemeyer, Holt and
Preuss 2014). These activities would reduce the level of carbon foot print, pollution. It also does
not let non renewable resources to extinct and save it for future use. This can be done by an
organization and an individual as well. It is not necessary that only big organizations can follow
them and bring a change but an individual can also bring about little change in the environment.
One more type of sustainability includes economic sustainability. The environment sustainability
and economic sustainability are directly proportional to each other. Economic sustainability can
be brought about if measures are taken for sustaining the environment (Carley and Christie
2017). Suppose the usage of renewable energy resources like sunlight, water energy and many
more would help the organizations to contribute in economic sustainability as well. Reducing the
usage of renewable resources would help in reducing the cost incurred in purchasing them as
well. Social sustainability is also as a part of sustainability which can be defined as the capacity
of the social system like country to act at a definite level of well being of society indefinitely.
These are the main there pillars of sustainability.
The sustainability that has been defined above actually is against the provided norms of
sustainability (Weaver, Jansen and Van 2017). Sustainability development can be defined as a
development which ensures that the recent needs would be met without any compromise of the
previous needs. The introduction of new needs and meeting them would not affect the previous
ones. Both will be met with equal priority. It also does allow the compromise of the capacity of
the future generations to meet the needs as well. Main key concepts of sustainable development
include the concept of various needs (Charles, Schmidheiny and Watts 2017). These needs can
be defined as the basic needs of people, this needs should be considered as the utmost priority