More and more resources are being used throughout the world in order to match the human want. For example each middle European is consuming up to 80 t environment per year. One third of this is being consumed by the way we build. Therefore there has to happen a change in the way we are using the resources, a dematerialization (this was settled during the 1992 environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro and 2002 Johannesburg Rio 10+ conference).
MIPS
The Wuppertal Institute for climate, environment and energy is doing research on environmental economy on international level. The Mipshaus Institute was founded in 2004 in order to research the raw material consumption. Friedrich Schmidt-Bleck and Ernst-Ulrich von Weiszaecken developed “MIPS – material intensity per service entity – which makes it possible to measure the ecological damage intensity (products, process, services).
Sustainable Development
The way sustainability is understood today is mostly wrong. The usage of wood or stone is not sustainable in the same way the usage of aluminum or synthetics is not. What determines the sustainability factor of a material is the way it is being used and the life cycle of that material. Through the usage of the MIPS database and calculation methods, economical ecological sustainable solutions can derive.
Faktor 10 Institut Austria 2004 (Calculus: Dipl.-Ing. Christopher Manstein, Dipl.-Ing. Walter Leiler)
http://www.faktor10.at/Deutsch/mipsbeispiele/solarkollektor.htm
MIPS-values for different types of decking/year and usage period
http://www.faktor10.at/Deutsch/mipsbeispiele/gartenbau.htm
Excerpt from: Roland Burgard Ed : Kunststoffe und freie Formen. Wien, New York: Springer; p 85-88,
Summarized by: Tudor Cosmatu
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