Description
Date: 1 December, 2022. Webinar
Estimated Time: 1 hr
Language: English
Summary of the lecture
The notion of life-cycle thinking is becoming more and more important in our society. Furthermore, adopting this type of thinking is vital in order to ensure we make the best possible decisions to safeguard the future of our global society and our planet.
Many people understand this message, but little has really changed in our day-to-day lives. The notion of using resilient materials in our society has, for many decades, been subliminally overtaken by the single use principle. Outside of healthcare where patient safeguarding is paramount why have we allowed ourselves to be brainwashed into relentlessly adopting single-use and often unrecycled products?
At the end of this steeltalk, participants will be able to:
- Explain the principles of life cycle thinking and its relevance in material selection.
- Evaluate the impact of short-term cost-focused decision-making on sustainability.
- Analyze the role of resilient materials in reducing life-cycle costs and emissions.
- Apply life cycle costing to compare different materials in terms of economic and environmental benefits.
Speaker Introduction
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Tim was born and grew up in the home of UK stainless steelmaking, Sheffield. Whilst at school he worked part-time for his father making steelworks thermocouples and laboratory furnaces. After leaving school he studied metallurgy at university and joined British Steel Stainless immediately after graduating. A succession of industry mergers saw Tim undertaking senior stainless technical, operations and supply chain roles in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK before joining the ISSF (now worldstainless) in August 2019. During his career Tim also found time to study Goldratt’s teaching on lean flow and operations, gain a postgraduate diploma in operations and inventory management and a masters degree in business administration. Away from work Tim still supports his boyhood football club, Sheffield Wednesday and enjoys rock music, cycling, fine wines and craft ales. |
Course Content
Course includes
- 1 Lesson
