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UAE drives demand for sustainable design

Source:Ringier Release Date:2011-07-29 824
Metalworking
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“ Everybody out there is now trying to go green ” Asheen Phansey, Product Manager, SolidWorks Sustainability

 Architecture and design firms operating in the UAE have experienced a definite shift to more sustainable projects in the past year as local businesses adjust to the new global economy. That was the broad consensus at the Design Executive Roundtable, held at The Office Exhibition 2011 in Dubai.
Most delegates agreed that the new global economy, in which emerging market forces are affecting competitive advantage and pushing businesses to do more with less, was driving demand for sustainable architecture and interior design in the UAE.
There's no doubt that the current status of building practice in UAE has improved. Clients have a better understanding of the long-term viability of projects. The economic situation has created a wonderful paradigm shift and is perhaps the greatest contribution to sustainability in the longest time.
Asheen Phansey, Product Manager for SolidWorks Sustainability at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks (DS SolidWorks) spoke to International Metalworking News – Middle East (IMNE) on sustainability innovation.
"Everybody out there is now trying to "go green," said Asheen. "I believe every single user can take advantage of SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress."
SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress technology performs lifecycle-based sustainable design assessment directly on individual part designs to help users understand the impact of their design decisions. An initial analysis of your part design provides a baseline for direct comparison with any subsequent changes.
"We are starting to see real interest in the concept of designing for sustainability around the world. We’ve seen sales pretty much on every geographic location and in a wide variety of industries. It is really good to see that it doesn’t concentrate on a specific company profile who buys this stuff."

Environmental impact dashboard
SolidWorks Sustainability software measures four environmental indicators over the life cycle of your product: carbon footprint, total energy consumed, and air and water impacts. For each of these four environmental indicators, the dashboard provides a continuous, real-time assessment of current values, as well as comparisons to your baseline design. This comprehensive view makes it easy to grasp the environmental impacts of your design choices and incorporate sustainability, as a standard part of your design process.
SolidWorks Sustainability software integrates the tools users need for more sustainable part design directly into the SolidWorks design interface, and generates reports on their findings, so that they can quickly assess, build, and communicate greener designs.
"One of the big things that I focus on is training our resellers. I want to achieve a good internal alignment on sustainability from both technical perspective with demos for our technical support; and from sales perspective making sure that the sales force understands the business benefits and the critical issues that were being solved for those companies using the software."
Asheen creates content and teaches SolidWorks Sustainability to users on how to do sustainable design. "We have this interesting phenomenon between simulation and sustainability. The thing with simulation is that it's based on a science of find an element analysis (FDA), which is something that mechanical engineers learn in school. So we can say that here's a simulation tool and equation that you've learned already. But for sustainability, there's no equipment for FDA concept that engineers can learn in school. Most of the engineers working now have not taken any sustainability class in school."

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