Designing Sustainable Factories: A Toolkit for the Assessment and Mitigation of Impact on the Landscape (Advances in Global Change Research)

Economic constraints and lack of knowledge often prevent companies – especially small and medium enterprises – from harmonizing their facilities with the landscape. As a result, factories significantly impact the quality of our living environment, in terms of physical effects on the ecosystem, perceptual interferences with the surroundings, and disturbances on local communities. At both the design and maintenance stages, a set of appropriate tools can assist businesses in becoming more aware of their impacts and identifying possible mitigation strategies. The book presents an assessment tool and a library of inspiring design tactics for factories, with examples of the benefits and synergies for the environment, the scenery, the community, and the company itself. The purpose is to elicit more than a simple reflection about what a sustainable factory entails. It is rather to encourage and assist both businesses and designers in mitigating the impact of industrial facilities on the landscape as holistically as possible. Lia Marchi is currently research fellow and adjunct professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna. In 2015 she graduated with honours in Architecture at the School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna. In 2020 she was awarded her Ph.D. in Architecture and Design Culture from the same University. Her primary disciplinary sector is Technology for Architecture, and she does research mainly in the field of green buildings and cities, in line with the Sustainable Development world challenge. E. Antonini, Foreword V. Zino, Green factory for sustainable businesses V. Orioli, Landscape protection in urban planning Chapter 1. The impact of industrial facilities on the landscape Chapter 2. Awareness and economic constraints as barriers to sustainable factories Chapter 3. Time to act. An insight on potential drivers of the change Chapter 4. Pioneer firms from the agri-food sector Chapter 5. A toolkit to assess and mitigate the impacts Chapter 6. Three mitigation scenarios for an Italian case study Chapter 7. Conclusions Glossary and References Annex 1: Case studies short cards Annex 2: One hundred tactics