ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION OF TECHNICAL OBJECTS – FRAMES

Abstract

Increasing interest of different organizations in the environmental evaluation of products has caused the need of tools for its realization. Due to the great number of machines and devices in use and their total significant influence on environment, special concern should be focused on this group of technical objects. In this series of paper the main task is to present the methodology of encompassing the whole life cycle of the object valuation of machines and devices with the special attention on environmental issues and its application to evaluation of real objects. At the beginning, the general overview of environmental problems in global scale is outlined. Special attention is concentrated on issues which are of concern for designers of technical objects. Broad spectrum of factors, which should be considered during the anticipation of environmental burdens done by technical objects, is discussed. General approaches dedicated to evaluating negative environmental impact of different scale are identified. Since the life cycle approach seems to be the most promising it is chosen for further development.

Keywords
evaluation, technical objects, environmental issues