RESEARCH IN SIMTECH

Sustainability Informatics & Strategy (SIS)

INTRODUCTION

The Sustainability Informatics & Strategy group looks at quantifying sustainability performance and how business models, business practices can be transformed to decarbonise operations and recirculate resources within the economy through the development of digital sustainability platforms.

Focus Research Areas

Sustainability Performance Quantification
Operations Decarbonisation
Resource Circularity
Digital Sustainability Platforms

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

1. Life Cycle Assessment & Costing Platform
ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment and Costing Platform to perform eco-technoeconomic analysis on organisations, technologies, systems, products and services.

2. Green CompassTM
A roadmapping tool to assess and chart pathways for improving organisations’ environmental sustainability readiness, coupled with a cloud-based digital platform for sustainability maturity self-assessment, prioritisation, and knowledge-driven roadmapping ideation.

3. Supporting Centre for Emissions and Energy Modelling (CE2M)
Integration of disparate models via a federated approach to harmonise, harness and synergise the best available modelling & simulation features to better support policy decisions for energy and emissions.

4. Collaboration Platform for Industrial Symbiosis
Knowledge driven recommendation and coordination system to facilitate discovery and formation of new waste-to-resource value chains.

KEY TECHNOLOGIES

Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing, Eco-Techno-Economic Analysis
Sustainable business model innovation and design
Partial & general equilibrium modelling towards net-zero manufacturing
Industrial Symbiosis modelling, knowledge management and engineering

RESEARCH IN SIMTECH

Sustainability Informatics & Strategy (SIS)

INTRODUCTION

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

KEY TECHNOLOGIES

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