technique in how the company manages environmental awareness. The fundamentals of design
environments are:
1. fixing the safety of the workers, civilians, and the environment while maintaining the performance and the quality of the product. Another way to put it is to lessen the risk on the workers,
civilians, and the environment;
2. using the resources responsibly; and
3. merging the environmental considerations into a product design, product redesign, process, and
management.
With the fundamentals of the design environment listed above, there are some examples that
can be done to fix a design to be more environmentally aware. The first example is the use of
environmentally friendly materials. Be it materials with low use of energy, non-toxic materials,
ozone-friendly materials, or a recycled material obtained from the waste of other manufacture
process. The second is to use a recyclable resource. Plant and animal produce-based materials is a
great example for that, with the provision that these resources should be extracted with conservation
in mind. The third example is to use materials with minimal energy and water input, the fourth
is to minimalize distribution impact by reducing the product’s size and weight, the fifth being the
minimalization of resource output like energy and water that will be used by the product during its
life, and the sixth and final example is to maximize the durability and longevity of the final product,
making parts that could be fixed without scraping everything and making them as recyclable
parts.
With the efforts of making a product using the design environment approach gives both the
manufacturing process and the final products some advantages. Some of these advantages include
not only a product that is environmentally friendly, but also that the final products tend to be a
better quality and to add to that, the price of manufacturing could be reduced significantly if the
designer choose to use recycled material and/or use reasonable transport option, given the reduced
size and weight. It will also appeal to a more environmentally conscious community as well as
encourage other to be more conscious of it.
The most common applications of design environment are:
1. recyclable design,
2. knock-down design,
3. energy efficient design,
4. remanufactured design,
5. disposability design, and
6. minimalization of hazardous materials.
Other than the effect on the ecosystem, the design should also mind the effect on the users
as members of society. Supporting the main function of the product and beyond, or in this case
to promote the habit of handwashing beyond the main function of merely being a facility to do
it. Educating the users to a better habit for the sake of not only the user’s, but especially in this
pandemic, the health of other people who have to make physical contact with the user.
2 METHOD
The execution of this research was done with the academic procedure generally applicable in this
field of study, which is a qualitative method by observation and literature study about design
environment. Although, due to the circumstances of this COVID-19 pandemic, all steps are done
online to obey the current health protocol by the time this research was conducted.
Observations and interviews are directed toward the members of the local government institution
and to the targeted local civilians. These data were then analyzed to design and produce the proper
portable handwashing station.
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environments are:
1. fixing the safety of the workers, civilians, and the environment while maintaining the performance and the quality of the product. Another way to put it is to lessen the risk on the workers,
civilians, and the environment;
2. using the resources responsibly; and
3. merging the environmental considerations into a product design, product redesign, process, and
management.
With the fundamentals of the design environment listed above, there are some examples that
can be done to fix a design to be more environmentally aware. The first example is the use of
environmentally friendly materials. Be it materials with low use of energy, non-toxic materials,
ozone-friendly materials, or a recycled material obtained from the waste of other manufacture
process. The second is to use a recyclable resource. Plant and animal produce-based materials is a
great example for that, with the provision that these resources should be extracted with conservation
in mind. The third example is to use materials with minimal energy and water input, the fourth
is to minimalize distribution impact by reducing the product’s size and weight, the fifth being the
minimalization of resource output like energy and water that will be used by the product during its
life, and the sixth and final example is to maximize the durability and longevity of the final product,
making parts that could be fixed without scraping everything and making them as recyclable
parts.
With the efforts of making a product using the design environment approach gives both the
manufacturing process and the final products some advantages. Some of these advantages include
not only a product that is environmentally friendly, but also that the final products tend to be a
better quality and to add to that, the price of manufacturing could be reduced significantly if the
designer choose to use recycled material and/or use reasonable transport option, given the reduced
size and weight. It will also appeal to a more environmentally conscious community as well as
encourage other to be more conscious of it.
The most common applications of design environment are:
1. recyclable design,
2. knock-down design,
3. energy efficient design,
4. remanufactured design,
5. disposability design, and
6. minimalization of hazardous materials.
Other than the effect on the ecosystem, the design should also mind the effect on the users
as members of society. Supporting the main function of the product and beyond, or in this case
to promote the habit of handwashing beyond the main function of merely being a facility to do
it. Educating the users to a better habit for the sake of not only the user’s, but especially in this
pandemic, the health of other people who have to make physical contact with the user.
2 METHOD
The execution of this research was done with the academic procedure generally applicable in this
field of study, which is a qualitative method by observation and literature study about design
environment. Although, due to the circumstances of this COVID-19 pandemic, all steps are done
online to obey the current health protocol by the time this research was conducted.
Observations and interviews are directed toward the members of the local government institution
and to the targeted local civilians. These data were then analyzed to design and produce the proper
portable handwashing station.
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