EnGen Institute 1992-2018
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TOTAL SUSTAINABILITY
GENERATIVE ENGINEERING OF ENGINEERED ENVIRONMENTS FOR LIFE SUPPORT
IMPLEMENTATION
APPROACH: EnGen Institute prefers the ‘Man-Machine System’ approach to developing Life Support
Systems with people and communities in control of technology that facilitates the expression and
development of human capacity and creativity. Our approach is to solve problems on a small local scale
first developing modular integrated solutions then deploy proven solutions on a larger scale.
DESIGN GENERATION: Generative system methods are applied to the complete development life-cycle
of systems with design refinement, during concurrent product & process development, using design
knowledgebases for design, production and documentation generation.
LIFE-CYCLE BASED: Designs are developed based on the complete life-cycle of a product - that is -
design, evolution from conception throught to maturity, considers not only the designs operational
characteristics and cost, but its manufacture, deployment & installation, then maintenance, repair,
recovery & recycling via closed-cycle, reversible logistics.
MODULAR DESIGN: All systems are, wherever possible, composed of modular subsystems that are built
off-site in modern factories and assembled, tested, disassembled and packaged before shipping.
CONTAINER LOGISTICS: Subsystem components are designed to utilize container logistics with
installation, repair & recovery requiring the minimum additional plant (2 ton machine lift limit & 4 man
lift limit).
SELF-INSTALLING: This requires systems and subsystems to facilitate and support their own installation
by being designed to include ‘internal’ logistics. The ‘self-installing’ jetty is an example of this
methodology.
