Title
Sustainable Furniture that Grows with End-Users
Author
Bosch, T.
Verploegen, K.
Grösser, S.N.
van Rhijn, G.
Contributor
Grösser S., (editor)
Reyes-Lecuona A., (editor)
Granholm, G. (editor)
Publication year
2017
Abstract
Economically and environmentally it might be more responsible or even feasible to combine products and services to elongate product lifetime. Gispen, a major office furniture producer in the Netherlands, has embraced circular economic principles to create new business, extend product life time and improve the adaptability of their products. In the Use-it-Wisely (UIW) project two applications were developed. To estimate possible business impacts of adapting a circular economy concept for a company, a dynamic business model simulation has been created by using the system dynamics methodology. And second, Gispen has developed a new Circular Economy Design Framework to support circular product design development. A combination of basic principles to design, upgrade, and reuse products according to circular economy principles are included in the framework as well as a circular life cycle assessment methodology. The development process, non-confidential company results of the tool application and directions for future research are described in this chapter.
Subject
Circular economy
Business models
Life Cycle Analysis
System dynamics
Work and Employment
Healthy Living
Life
SP - Sustainable Productivity and Employability
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45438-2_16
TNO identifier
766507
Publisher
Springer, Cham
ISBN
9783319454375
Source
Dynamics of Long-Life Assets: From Technology Adaptation to Upgrading the Business Model, 303-326
Document type
bookPart